Charity campaign for Teddy

Appeal for help!

A mother whose heart is full of pain, disappointments and dashed hopes turns to you. It is with great entreaty that I appeal to each and every one of you reading this letter. I believe that good exists and that I am not alone in this struggle.

In two months, my daughter turns 20. She is my fighter, my hero and the meaning of my life - my Teddy. Instead of planning her birthday, this year I am planning a surgery that will positively change my daughter's life .

Teddy is my honest to a fault, assertive, outspoken and smiling love. She was born from a normal pregnancy. Until a year and a half, Teddy grew up happy and carefree, but after a vaccine was administered, she got side effects. The illness manifested itself in a cast on one leg and general debility. This necessitated a paediatric examination and admission to an infectious disease hospital in Ruse with suspected meningitis. After a lumbar puncture, the child stopped walking completely. Independent gait was impossible. We were discharged with an unspecified diagnosis, with no guidelines for further treatment. Several hospital stays followed, where there was no adequate treatment.

But at the same time, my daughter's condition was deteriorating. She developed spastic paralysis of her lower limbs and left arm, which required surgical intervention. Subsequent surgeries worsened her condition and independent walking is impossible to this day. Her diagnosis determined 100 percent paralysis, with foreign assistance. The only possible way to improve Teddy's condition was rehabilitation. At that moment, our entire family knew our lives were going to be different. Different lives for "different kids" is a diagnosis. We have been waiting 18 years for a "miracle" from physical therapy, but unfortunately there has been no improvement to this day. We love her more than anything in the world and pray that one day she will walk on her own. We don't lose hope, we are determined that our lives will be "normally different" and we don't give up, we don't despair, even though it is terribly hard sometimes.

After consultations and correspondence in the summer of 2021, on our side with several clinics outside the country, there is a reply from a Turkish clinic that gives hope for Teddy. We turned to a specialist who conducts examinations, at the invitation of ZIC Medical Karaj in Burgas - Dr. Cengiz Çabukoğlu. He is a narrow specialist, in children with such problems and has a lot of experience in such complex operations. His opinion was that the road ahead is difficult but possible.

We already have an offer from the clinic which includes neurological examinations and orthopedic surgeries which is worth 11, 100 euros. Bearing in mind that after the neurological status, if there is a need for additional tests, they will be extra /out in the offer/.

The offers only cover the necessary neurological examinations and orthopaedic surgeries, which Dr. Jenghiz proposes to perform if the neurological status allows. Travel expenses and stay in Istanbul will be entirely at our expense. We do not have such financial possibility.

I appeal to you for help! I believe in the goodness of the human heart and have passed it on several times myself!

We have been through a lot of pain, hardship and disappointment over the last 18 years and hopefully we will overcome thanks to GOOD people like you.

May Teddy have a chance at a normal life. She dreams of being able to walk. I believe that with your help and the help of the specialists from the clinic in Istanbul, we will be able to give Teddy her life, autonomy and smile back.

Make a child happy!

P.S. Teddy's words:

"Being different doesn't mean you have to be useless. Being different doesn't mean you have to be bad. Being different doesn't mean you have to be abnormal or confined to a wheelchair. Being different means believing in what others don't - GOOD.

What is easy for you is hard for me at this stage and up to this point, but when a person has a strong will, sooner or later they achieve their goal. I will fight for these "chains" around me to come off!

I want to learn how to fly... It's very difficult, but I want to do everything to achieve it."