Umar is 15 years old. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
In 2016, Umar had his first epilepsy attack. Since then, the seizures have become regular (up to 20 times a day) and painful. During one of the seizures, Umar fell from his height and broke his thoracic vertebrae. After that he was taken to the trauma center, where he spent a long time in a horizontal position. We helped the boy then - we paid for a number of high-tech examinations and a rigid thoracolumbar brace.
In February of this year, after analyzing the conducted research, doctors from St. Petersburg performed a unique operation to separate the hemispheres of the brain so that Umar would no longer suffer from epilepsy.
Unfortunately, after the surgery, the seizures did not go away. And the medications he was taking before the surgery do not stop these seizures.
Umar urgently needs to undergo nocturnal video-EEG sleep monitoring to select antiepileptic therapy.
His mother is raising the boy and his younger sister alone, so she is not financially able to pay for this examination.
