Well… on September 30, 2008 I
gave birth to my most dearly loved and long expected girls – Nadya and Sonya….
Today nobody can say what exactly went wrong….Yes, there
was hestosis in the second half of pregnancy and the last month was especially
difficult –swellings, high blood pressure- things I had never had before the
pregnancy… Nothing extraordinary , nothing special, that others don’t have…
Several days decided
everything…on Saturday at 36 weeks all the analysis were normal but on Tuesday morning things
became seriously wrong: protein was going off scale, KGT analysis showed that
Nadya’s heart was beating hard…I was
urgently sent to maternity unit…
After a planned cesarean
operation two girls were born. They were rather big for twins:
Nadya’ s weight was 2 750 g and height – 49 cm and Sonya’s – 2 350 g and 47 sm.
Sonya was born a healthy child
and Nadya was not bad at first too (her
Apgar score was 7/ 8 )
In 4 hours, however, Nadya had
respiratory syndrome, Artificia Lungs Ventilation, thus everything started and rashed…It soon
became clear that a simple maternity hospital can’t help us. Unfortunately, a
place in the reanimation unit of Children’s Regional Hospital was free for us only
on the third day and we spent 3 days in the maternity hospital, waiting.
When Nadya was 1 week she had
cerebral hemorrhage of 3 -4 degree that resulted in hydrocephalus… Her first
operation was at the age of 1 month and
we received a temporal bypass that stopped to work one day later but there was
nobody to change it as the only neurosurgeon for the whole region, A.N.
Shlychkov, got into a hospital himself and never returned….God bless him!
When Nadya was 2 months our attending doctor in the Pathology of the
Newborn Unit – Natalia A. Gavva made a decision to send us to St. Petersburg to the Scientific and Research
Institute named after Polenov for the bypass operation.
I am very grateful to this
doctor – she defended the right to live of my little daughter…
We had an emergency operation
but with no result because it turned out that my Nadya had meningitis. This disease made zero all the operation results. Still my daughter
was alive. We had a long 3 months fight with meningitis and after that, directly
from the hospital we went back to St. Peterburg. It appeared that not one but two operations were needed. Days
before operations were a nightmare – the girl’s state was critical – and only
at the age of 7 months after the second operation, the threat to life has
passed and we began to breath. We were naïve to think that all the worst has
passed and our daughter would catch up with her twin -sister.
At 1 year Nadya was recognized
a disabled person. She couldn’t keep her head, turn, sit-up speak and other
COULDN’T…