Right to life

Glib is very small, but very friendly boy, to whose fate from birth has felt a lot. Glebko was born with congenital CMV-infection, which led to pathological changes in the liver. Against the background of this disease is decreasing hemoglobin and is accompanied by a high temperature up to 40. Just at the age of 1 year the child was made 7 infusions of blood, that is, in fact, kept him alive. The only way to save the boy is the treatment abroad, but there is no money for it. Help Gleb recover!

"Gleb was born in Poltava, where doctors didn't made an accurate diagnosis and didn't carry out targeted treatment. After that we were sent to the hospital in Kyiv "OKHMATDYT", where continued the struggle with the illness of their son. Continuing the search for experts who could help, we were also at the Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology. There it was made a liver biopsy, followed by a treatment that has not yielded significant results. But hope doesn't leave us, even for a second.

Sometimes you catch yourself thinking that for the first year of baby's life  the child have not seen the house except hospitals, and could not spend a single day without the injection, infusion or analysis, as well as the thought becomes prohibitively difficult, and even in so difficult days. We still didn't go home, because the hemoglobin falls very sharply, and if to miss this moment, you can lose a child."- the mother of little Glib says.

Unfortunately, in our country doctors cannot complete the current diagnosis of the disease and prescribe the correct treatment. Therefore, the only way of salvation is the treatment of our son in foreign hospitals. In case of successful treatment, what doctors and relatives of the child expect, the body of Glib can fight with congenital infection and produce vital hemoglobin on its own, to live a normal life of a 1-year-old child, finally to add in weight (weight of Glib at the age of 1 year is only 6 kilos!) .

But despite such a small weight, he does not want to lie down, he loves to stand on his feet, as it allows him to look at the world differently. And while he always pleases us with small achievements, but because of his illness there are lagging behind in development, and each new skill is given to him with great difficulty.

Every day, seeing their son, who bravely endured all the hardships of his illness, it gives his family strength not to give up and to continue fighting for his life.

Name: Glib A. Pohtel, born 11/07/2013

Location: Khorol, Poltava region

Diagnosis: congenital CMV-infection, generalized form. Congenital hepatitis. Acute respiratory viral miket infection (Adenovirus, Parainfluenza, PC-virus). Anemia of mixed origin. Latency statokinetic development. Intestinal bacteria overgrowth. Rickets St. 2, in subacute stage height.