By Tatyana Naumenko | Project Leader
"When our son was born, he spent 6 months at the intensive care, so there was not much time to think that he was special. The main thing at that moment was to keep him alive. When we could finally hug our boy, feed and lull him, we realized that he was different," says Maxim mom.
Our first challenge was a tracheostome. It was impossible to relax with it even for a second, neither during the day nor at night. We didn't have enough money for the consumables in support of the stome, encountered incompetence of the medical staff. We couldn't get the right treatment even for a regular cold.
Another big issue was impossibility to integrate Maxim into social life because of the delays in his physical and mental development.
Many centers refused to help us since they didn't have experience in working with children with a tracheostome.
When Maxim was about one year old, we turned to the Early Intervention Center. It was the only place where we were told that our kid would BE ABLE. To do what exactly, was to be figured out in the process of work, but he will develop. Whereas all other institutions claimed that Maxim was not viable at all. This is what Early Intervention Centers are needed for. So that all little Maxims could have a chance, WERE ABLE.
Let's intervene in the problem before it intervenes in the family's life!
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