As soon as Malika hears the clinking of plates, she immediately begins to worry - she got used to the bitter medicine her parents give her in glassware, and now she is afraid even of the clinking of glass.
Malika used to have to take three medications at once to overcome her epilepsy attacks. The first and very strong seizure happened when the little girl was only four months old. On the most ordinary day, parents were going to the pool with their daughter, and at one moment Malika lost consciousness. The parents were in a panic. "Good thing my brother's wife was there, she's a nurse, she quickly understood what to do," recalls Rustam, Malika's father.
The next day the family from Makhachkala went to a Moscow hospital. "There we must have taken all the tests that exist. Everything the doctors said we did," says Rustam. Cramps plagued the little girl every day, but the hospital never diagnosed her. After countless exhausting examinations, the family returned home.
The local doctor concluded that the child had one of the severe forms of epilepsy, Vesta syndrome. The constant discharges in her head prevent Malika from developing. Now she is two and a half years old, she cannot stand or sit by herself. And the baby sees very badly - she reacts only to bright light, and not always.
Malika spends most of the day either in her mother's arms, or in her crib. And she also loves to have fun with her grandmother on the gymnastics ball, as her daddy says, "they have a special bond. The disease prevents the little girl from standing on her own, which means orthopedic complications can develop as well. That's why Malika needs a rehabilitation gadget to help her stand without pain, and also to be more active and healthier.
