Hello kind and good people, dear donors,

Georgi is a wonderful little boy who needs your help to have a full childhood and a normal life!

Gogo, as we call our sunshine is a long-awaited child who was born in 2019 and made us infinitely happy. But our happiness was very short lived!

Within the first few hours of life, Gogo had a seizure, followed by several more clonic seizures accompanied by sleep apneas, a condition where he would stop breathing.

This necessitated being in a cuboid for 20 days, during which he was fed by a tube, breathed with an oxygen machine and was severely hypotonic. The difficulties did not end there. After several months of treatment with Phenobarbital and a brief lull, the seizures became more frequent again, reaching 60-70 a day. Further hospitalizations followed and the inclusion of new medications to treat the seizures, which he still takes today. This is how Gogo got the diagnosis of Epilepsy. In parallel, the hypotension intensified and Gogo's mental and motor development lagged behind.

Numerous tests were done, including genetic ones in the US and Germany, but to date we have not been given an accurate diagnosis to explain his condition. In addition to the multiple blood tests, an MRI of his head was done and he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

In order for Gogo to catch up and catch up with his peers, we have daily visits to rehabilitation, speech therapy, psychologist, nutritional therapy, sensory therapy, and occupational therapy. In the time we are home we continue daily work with a private rehabilitation therapist.

In search of help for our child we ended up in Turkey where we periodically visit different specialists to monitor his condition - pediatric neurologist, eye doctor, orthopedist, pediatrician, etc.

The specialists there are of the opinion that Georgi will pass, but he needs intensive rehabilitation and intensive stimulation of mental development.

Currently Gogo has had 2 hip surgeries in Istanbul, as a result of the hypotension the joints became luxated - bilaterally, i.e. the joints started to come out of the balls. We were very hopeful that physiotherapy would stop the process and avoid surgery, but unfortunately this did not happen.

After the luxation was confirmed by three leading specialists in this field in Bulgaria and in Istanbul, and it was explained to us that there was no other option to treat the problem except surgery, we took this difficult step. The first operation was extremely difficult and Gogo was in a cast from the waist down for 50 days, immobilised in bed. But...our boy is a fighter and heroically endured all the discomforts. Thank God everything went well. A year and a half after the first surgery, we had the second surgery, which removed the nails that had been placed in Gogo's joints.

All this is behind us, but now it is very important to continue with the active and intensive rehabilitation so that the effect of the surgeries can be maximized and Gogo can walk as quickly as possible. The good news is that Gogo is now able to stay upright for a long time and is taking steps independently. In order to consolidate this success and make him walk completely on his own, we must not stop with the visits to the rehabilitation centres at home and abroad!

Many more check-ups with specialists will be needed to monitor his condition. Unfortunately all these therapies and procedures are extremely expensive and unaffordable for us!

Unfortunately things are dynamic and the funds needed for treatment are constantly changing!

So good people, we ask for your help and support!

We are asking for a chance for our boy to be able to run and play with other children, to hear the cherished "mommy" and "daddy" and to have a full childhood and a normal life!

Thank you! Be healthy!