Important small steps

The life of most newborns begins with a pleasant expectation, childbirth, a child's cry and joyful: "Congratulations!". After that, happy parents take the babe home. Olexandra's life began with premature birth and cesarean. After that, the doctors took the baby to the intensive care unit under an artificial lung ventilator.

The life of most newborns begins with a pleasant expectation, childbirth, a child's cry and joyful: "Congratulations!". After that, happy parents take the babe home. Olexandra's life began with premature birth and cesarean. After that, the doctors took the baby to the intensive care unit under an artificial lung ventilator.

Sasha was sent home only when she was 2.5 months old. At 9 months old, the girl was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. After this moment the struggle for Sasha's healthy childhood began: there were massages, rehabilitation courses, hippotherapy, acupuncture... Parents put all their strength to make their daughter turn over, crawl, sit, get up... Now they are working to ensure that the girl herself can go.

When Sasha was six years old, she was operated on the Strayer's method on both sides. Now Sasha is 7, and despite the diagnosis, she is very active and persistent girl, she is confidently standing by the pedestal, moving in the walker and trying to walk, holding her hand. And she will certainly succeed! For this, it is necessary not to stop treatment. Now the girl is recommended to go to the treatment "Priorytet" center in Kiev, but the family does not have money.

Help Sasha make another small, but such an important step towards a healthy life!

Name: Kharchenko Olexandra, 12.10.2010

City: Kiev

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis