To be happy every day

Zhenia is a very friendly, gentle to the others and nice boy. He likes to sing songs and to recite poems but not everyone can understand him... Zhenia is a special boy, he doesn’t develop like most kids. Eight years ago the boy had hydrocephalus that was treated with two shunt systems.

Each new word, each movement or effort makes his parents happy. They didn’t fell into despair but consulted actevelyu various specialists. It seemed that soon their son would have a long-awaited improvement but instead the boy had recurrent symptoms of hydrocephalus. This could mean one thing: it’s time to go to the hospital again. Now the boy is hospitalized at the Institute of Neurosurgery and he really needs our help.

Little Zhenia was prematurely with a weight of 970 grams. The whole department of doctors did their best to save the boy. Later a cyst in the brain was detected and when the boy was six months old he was diagnosed with hydrocephalus. To remove all the negative symptoms two shunt system were installed. Since then Zhenia’s condition improved greatly but he couldn’t develop like most kids. Now, unfortunately, one of two systems failed. It had to be replaced and then to be removed because of inflammation. Now the boy needs medicines to cleanse the body from infection. But his parents cannot buy the necessary drugs.

Name: Yevhenii Kalmykov, 20.03.2008

City: Kyiv

Diagnosis: Hydrocephalus