Let's help Ivan cure of his illness. 2

While looking at the blond boy with blue eyes no one can even imagine that he is a child with special needs. Only the fact that he is moving across the street in a wheelchair, gives out his illness - cerebral palsy. Each rehabilitation for him is a small step forward to the ability to walk independently. However, the financial abilities of the family run out. And for the second time his parents are asking UBB donors for help in raising funds for the next course of rehabilitation.

In the hospital his mother was warned that severe hemorrhages derived during childbirth can have terrible consequences. Unfortunately endless massages, gymnastics and expensive drugs had not helped. After one year he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. And if at early age it was not evident enough, it eventually became obvious: he haven't started to sit and walk. Arms and legs are in constant muscle tone, and it does not allow to move freely and
develop, run on grass, play in the sand, eat with a spoon, ride a scooter – to do everything that healthy kids do while enjoying childhood.

Instead of it, Ivanko constantly suffers pain, because he needs continuous rehabilitation. Intensive massage, physiotherapy and training on simulators, developing limbs, learning how to keep a balance and put the feet on the heels, not on the fingers. This all is very hard for him. However, parents are confident that all his efforts will not be in vain. While he is small, his body is able to change, strengthen, learn to perform movements and develop. And
the primary parents task is to give him the correct direction for development. He really has chance to learn to look after himself. He is smart child that can speak, make conclusions, learns colors, letters and numbers.

Boy's parents appeal to not indifferent people for help that will give an opportunity for him to make the first independent step. And this will certainly be the happiest moment in the life of the family!

Name: Petrushkevych Ivan, 13.02.2012

City: Rivne

Diagnosis: cerebral palsy, spastic tetraparesis