This is our beautiful first born daughter Nia.

Nia started getting seizures several a day. She was urgently transferred to the neonatology of Tokuda Hospital, and after a 10-day stay there for three months, the fight for her life continued in the neonatology of the Children's Hospital "prof. She was in the neonatal unit of Dr. Ivan Mitev, under the professional and dedicated care of Assoc. Georgieva and her wonderful team.
There she was diagnosed with epilepsy due to a mutation of the KCNQ2 gene The s637C>T, p.Arg213 Trp The disease is manifested by the development of epileptic encephalopathy, manifested in the newborn period with severe, difficult to control seizures in the first weeks of life, followed by a spectrum of developmental disabilities that are often severe. Once the diagnosis was clarified and the right medication administered, the seizures were brought under control, but the damage they had inflicted began to occur one after another.

To date, Nia is 7 years old, but still unable to walk, talk, or eat age-appropriate food. All the severe damage due to the disease is on her face (motor, social, language, cognitive).

And the great difficulty to implement adequate treatment comes from the fact that this is a rare genetic disease, with relatively poor information about it especially in our country. Hope comes from the Department of Pediatrics,at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, which has specialists from around the world actively working to find a cure.
What we have been doing in the years leading up to now is continuous rehabilitation, working with a speech therapist, educator, psychologist, all recommended by her treating physicians.

After years of wandering between all of these specialists we believe,
that this summer we came to the right place where professionalism, attitude, results were combined - Adeli Medical Center in
town. Adeli Medical Center in Piešťany, Slovakia. After a two-week intensive rehabilitation including a number of treatments we were able to see our child just getting up and hearing the most sacred word Mom.
To move forward, the recommendation of the center is to visit four times a year.

The rest of the time he attends an intensive therapy using the Medek method in Bulgaria , the Elite17plus centre , soon we will apply a yearly offer from there.
And here comes the sad part. To see, that there is hope, but the means for its realization are over. Till now we tried to do it on our own, but it has become unaffordable. One two-week treatment is in the order of 16 669 BGN, and as we wrote above it will take 4 times for a total of 66679.00 BGN.

Therefore, we, her parents, are appealing to all of you who are sympathetic and have the opportunity to help Nia catch up with the "WHITE LION" and see the happiness in her beautiful childish eyes!