Make A Difference
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This is just a student blog so I’m sorry if I will get too emotional sometimes or I’ll be going off topic, but this is a huge part of my life and if you are looking for objective and dry information this is probably no the best place to look for it.
But if you really want to know the details on what’s going on day by day and how everything is going and what complications arise – you found the right blog to read.
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Winter Break MAD News
1.14.2011
During winter break I’ve been finally able to arrange the check-up with kids for the Operations Group. It was a little disorganized on the school’s part – they’ve lost the list of students they’ve given me, so it took us some time to figure that out. Finally I had the medical records of two children and the kids themselves – a boy and a girl, both of them really having trouble walking.It was painful too look at them for me, but I see that they don’t need any sympathy. They fell alright in this school, because there they are treated like any other person would’ve been. I’m just afraid that the outside word will be a bit of a shock for them at the time thy will have to graduate.
But I was talking about the check-up. So we somehow manged to get to the clinic and that’s when things got really complicated. Clinic is at the second floor. And it means a lot of stairs. 2 kids having troubles walking and one small me. I won’t talk about how we made it up the stairs, I don’t want to complain. After that things went quick. The doctor quickly look at their medical records and examined kids and after that we had quite a long talk about what to do next.
We discovered that both of these kids had operation at some point, girl – a year ago, boy – 6 years ago. The problem is is that it was all wasted and operations changed nothing, because there was no proper rehabilitation period. It’s too late to fix anything for the boy, but there is still something that can be done for the girl, but it has to be their school’s responsibility to keep an eye on it. We can only get the orthopedic footwear for this girl and maybe take a find of “guardianship” over her on a more of an official level. We can then meet with the girl from time to time and check how she’s doing and find out if she’s getting enough attention.
Now here’s our plan for the boy. He needs a tendon extension. This will put him to the hospital for around a month. After that he need to have a proper rehabilitation period, so the main condition for the operation to be done is that school will agree to take care of that – it will only require some additional physiotherapy and maybe massage. We can provide orthopedic footwear and maybe some additional financial help if it is required. But this is not going to be easy.
Now I’m working on an official letter to school arranging all that was mentioned above. I would have to then go and talk to people anyway, but we need the letter to emphasize the importance of what we are talking about.
As soon as their 2nd semester starts I will find some time to go to the orthopedic footwear shop and order shoes for the boy from last year and this new girl that had operation last year.
What I can say in conclusion is that I never expected this whole process to be that complicated. There is so many factor involved and it is such an enormous responsibility that it gets scary at times. But I see the right course of action and I know what to do next.
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