Milena Velba Stocking

On May 22, 2000 a news story I completely revolutionizes life. I went for an ultrasound control and the first image that appears is the chubby face of a child. I am nineteen weeks and fortunately the baby is at least as good results from the first images.

What a thrill and terror I felt at that moment. I'm 24 and expecting a child but not
is certainly the best moment of my life. I spend the rest of the pregnancy may be thinking how difficult the life of my child without a father at his side. I guess his future with me and takes its first steps
, kicks a ball, ride a bike and all I can think is more beautiful when you are pregnant.

On September 13, Matthew was born 35 weeks and three days via a Caesarean section because I have a fever, so my gynecologist decided not to risk over time and an hour from my shelter my child is already born
. Everything seems normal.

The first year of life passes quickly, but Matthew does not meet any of the early evolutionary stage
.

September 11, 2001 there was the attack on the Twin Towers, September 12, 2001 there was the attack on the serenity of a young mother. Very coldly and without ever seeing the child, the psychiatrist tells me about
brain injury. The total cattle invade my mind and tears in my eyes ...... I can not imagine anything. Two weeks after I bring the child, other harsh words I enter the mind and heart: "It 's palsy"
All this diagnosis without examination. We begin the process: encephalogram, CAT scan and MRI. The overall picture is full of inconsistencies, but no one explains the situation well. They tell me: "Matthew has a spastic quadriplegia caused by fetal distress and Arnold Chiari malformation type I in the cerebellum. Something I do not square because the hospital where I gave birth, when I present the situation of my son, the pediatrician who has resigned, and my gynecologist deny this fetal distress. We started out 'the pilgrimage from different doctors and all I confirm the diagnosis: the case of spastic quadriplegia.

In October we start physical therapy in neurospischiatria but not enough for me.
so I submit to a physical stress that Matthew only a person with a strong will can stand. We're going to Bergamo for speech therapy, physiotherapy in Cremona for personal initiative, in Milan for a pseudo speech sent by the psychiatrist and in the meantime the child is also attending the nursery school, is free from any commitment on Sundays only.

the age of 3 years and 4 months, undergoes the first operation adductor groin Foligno and 4 years and 2 months and faces the second operation, this time with a flexor that forced him to stop at least a month because i have to chalk
both legs.

Matthew endured with a smile and a determination to be envied.
But what happens after intervention? The child has urgent need to resume physiotherapy for not ditching the result of the operation but unfortunately this does not happen. After six months and resume in another department in another hospital. We pass by the area of \u200b\u200bneuropsychiatry at the physiotherapy hospital in Brescia Montichiari. Within a year Matthew went from making coffee to park their cars and play with the first physical therapist to walk with a
quadripode he called Ugo. What a change !!!!!!!

With the new physical therapist, I am aware of the true clinical picture of Matthew: while reading the reports of the examinations, he says: "If I had seen before I would have said gliesami \u0026lt;lady can not do anything, I'm sorry>. I do not understand what you are telling me and instinctively I sit as if I were to receive yet another blow. Finally someone explained to me the two pages of MRI in a few words saying that Matthew would be a vegetable, essrer should not be able to do anything but in reality the child is doing the work
very few brain cells alive and even hyperactive.

And to think that I believed that what they told me my son was on the pathology of all. I had to wait 5 years and a physiotherapist to learn the truth.

On 14 November 2008, at dinner Matthew completed his first and only three steps alone and the tears flow from wild my eyes.

Since March 2009 we unfortunately ricapitati for bureaucratic decisions under the Neuropsychiatry and Matthew is no longer with Hugh and walked with no other help.
After 9 years of struggle and to live according to my son, I can say with absolute certainty that there was no better name I could give him. Matthew means gift of the Lord, and I think it's just 'cos. In spite of all he is peaceful, tranquil, cheerful, aware of his situation, but most fighting is my benchmark, my strength and my light.

Mat THANKS TO EXIST !!!!!!!!

Yellow Cm Before Menstruation

The History of The History of Leonardo Mariavittoria

My name Mariavittoria Benedetta, I was born in Udine January 10, 2008 at week 26. At birth I weighed just 502 grams. My mom was sick for some time, but her gynecologist had not noticed that I had some serious problems of growth, later diagnosed in hospital as a serious case IURG.
On 1 January 2008 my mother was in Slovenia, one of the many stations of well-being, to try to remedy problems caused by serious problems with blood flow and functioning of the kidneys, the doctors were referred to 'obscure. The evening of that day he had a detachment of the placenta and, after fighting one night in a small hospital mountain, we were transferred by helicopter to hospital in Udine, the closest place to the Italian border, there are the same in his belly for 9 days, trying to strengthen my expansion box, which, given my non prematurity were not ready. The doctors were puzzled, given the state of my heart when I was still strong pain in my stomach. Every three hours a nurse came to check if there was, then one night my mother was very ill. In the morning the doctors decided they could not wait any longer, because otherwise I had to come get me and my mom would not have survived ...
At birth I surprised everyone with my vitality and my efforts to breathe, but unfortunately my lungs were not working yet .. so I was intubated for more than three months, during which I faced many infections that persecutes expansion box on my sick, but me and my mom we never gave up, even in moments when it seemed that there was no hope
.. Slowly I recovered and got the weight of 2.2 kg are returned home May 24, 2008. In early July, I finally removed the oxygen respiratory assistance. My
meant that conditions of extreme prematurity I was severely hypotonic and I brought a delay of several months in brain development. I went then stimulated both from the point of view Physiatric that from the standpoint of psycho-motor to allow the brain to the muscles and finally to complete their development.
One year I was sitting with the aid of a pillow, I was unresponsive to external stimuli, and had poor muscle strength so that I could move on its own. After a moment's hesitation, my mother had the good fortune to be directed to the physiotherapy hospital in Montichiari, thanks to frequent weekly sessions where I could strengthen my muscles and I learned the reactions necessary balance and fall the journey as well as to manage the space.
Today, at the age of 2 years finally walk. I'll never stop to thank those who have been able to stimulate my potential, giving me a hand in trying to deal with that mental and motor retardation that I bring from my birth, because my organs and the brain had not yet finished their training process. Now I'm struggling with the psycho-motor skills, cognitive learning to prevent problems that may arise with school age. I think for me as a serious premature prevention and stimulation is crucial, since we are still "textbook cases" before 2000 and that children like me would not have survived the birth. We act as sort of "edge" to be "guinea pigs" and end up in the manuals of international medicine .. my mom and I never stop believing in medicine, therapy and prevention of any damage that may arise.

Embryo Development Timestable

Now that you have searched for years, finally discovers she is pregnant.
A pregnancy with some snag a TN too bad checks, but checks that everything seems to go well. Echography you see that you're a nice boy, your name immediately Leonardo x your will to fight despite the low amniotic fluid and should be born first.

born with the Sept. 13 with five weeks in advance, I realized that everything that I believe does not exist, that life is not a fairy tale.
At your birth you do not cry .. why? is not happening so the programs I've seen, something is wrong but the doctor tells me not to worry ... I get off after 4 hours in intensive care because that is where did they get there and that it remains for 39 days attached to those tubes.
but I wonder why us? Lots of life and death, your kidneys become blocked as strong as a lion, but you exceed 48 hours and then the diagnosis ... me and your dad the world collapses, you have a brain malformation called agenesis of the corpus callosum but something else is wrong, talk about the syndrome.
But now you're here and we want to help you, you have to fight the tears ended.

At discharge your diagnosis: respiratory distress, prematurity, partial agenesis of the corpus callosum, cromosopatia rare partial monosomy of 9 associated with a partial trisonomia of 10, these words still echo in my ears,
\u0026lt;\u0026lt;His son may be a vegetable>> ... then I'll compare you to a flower that must be cared for, nurtured and loved ...

You surprised us all with your progress, slowly blossoming and you tell Leo to those doctors that a small flower has taught us so much, even if they do not do your peers, your mom and your dad are growing and learning, you're LEONARDO!