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Help Maria fight epilepsy and cerebral palsy !

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Maria is my niece. She is 22 years old. She was born prematurely at 6 months and weighed only 2 pounds. Doctors rolled the dice on her survival! At 1 year old she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Since then family goal was to help Masha to learn how to sit and move without support. She did a lot of physical therapy, had 2 orthopedic operations.  But in 2010 during one of the therapy sessions there was an attack of epilepsy.  Since then family tried to cure that as well. Despite all of this Maria finished high school and entered university to study foreign languages. Since February 2018 epilepsy started happening every day. They tried all different medical facilities but nobody can help.  Maria spent many months at the hospital where doctors were forced to put her into an artificial coma to stop epilepsy attacks! Epilepsy attacks are happening because it’s too warm or too cold, any noise or smell can provoke epilepsy seizures.  Maria got a little light of hope after seeing an epilepsy surgeon Professor Antonio Russi who works in Centro Medico Teknon Hospital in Spain.  He works with the hardest cases and helps people to get their life back! The money will be raised to cover medical expenses for treatment and shortly following surgery at Centro Medico Teknon Hospital in Spain.

Please help Maria to get her life back and dream again!!!

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Donations 

  • Olya Salas
    • $20 
    • 3 yrs
  • Tanya O’Keefe
    • $50 
    • 3 yrs
  • Cindy Morano
    • $30 
    • 3 yrs
  • Joseph Miller
    • $20 
    • 4 yrs
  • Anonymous
    • $5 
    • 4 yrs
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Alena Taliercio
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Staten Island, NY

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