Anxiety about heart disease is not a vice. Lisa Grosheva’s heart operation lasted half an hour. In thirty minutes the doctors eliminated the defect: they closed the hole in the atrial septum with a special device - an occluder, now the gap will heal itself, the girl will recover. Only half an hour, but as time consists of seconds, each heartbeat contains all the chance meetings, love, hopes, plans for the future, sad news, hopelessness, search for salvation, help from loved ones, getting rid of the experience, new hopes , bold dreams. There would be power over banality, one could say: in one beat of a child’s heart - the whole life of the adult world around. But life is not trivial because it is not over. The heart beats, time goes by. We are talking about this with Lisa’s mother Tatiana."I, like all future moms, was looking forward to the arrival of my daughter. So it turned out that I had no one to share this happy expectation with, Lisa’s dad did not want to take part in our lives, but I was not discouraged, because I soon had to to give birth to a daughter -
Lisa.During my pregnancy I underwent all the necessary tests, ultrasound, screenings.All the doctors said that we were fine.Exactly 40 weeks old Lizonka was born.But my happiness was overshadowed by the news of the suspicion of a diagnosis - Down syndrome Unfortunately, after the discharge, this diagnosis was confirmed, and it is known that children with this diagnosis have a high percentage of congenital heart disease.
We had it about 1 centimeter. In Dnepropetrovsk, where we were registered at the cardio center, we were offered a band operation to close the "hole" in the heart. This thought made me scared, because we still had a lot of problems with our basic diagnosis. It was very difficult to put her on her feet (children with this diagnosis start walking only at the age of 2), but we managed to do it. Lisa went to 1 year and 2 months, so we just could not go to bed for band surgery, it depended not only on her physical but also mental development.
When Lisa was 7 months old, we went to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery named after N.M. Amosova (Kyiv), where we were delighted, said that Lisa can have sparing heart surgery. What good news for me!
The doctors decided not to hurry and wait for Lisa to gain weight. There are cases when the "hole" in the heart closes itself. But, not in our case, time passed, the vice did not linger, and Lisa did not get better.
In December of this year, another ordeal awaited us with my heart, my mother’s heart, and my daughter’s heart. Lisa developed acute viral encephalitis. Thanks to our relatives and friends, we withstood this test. But, the diseases continued to make themselves felt. Every six months, Lisa had bronchitis, sore throat and cold.
My heart made itself felt. At the last examination at the Amosov Institute, doctors decided that we could not wait any longer, and said that the "hole" should be closed in the near future, otherwise Lisa will be worse.
In Kiev, I was told that the operation itself is free, but you need to buy a special "patch" - an occluder. The device is expensive. I’m on maternity leave now. So I turned to the
fund for help .
I could not imagine how quickly our question would be resolved and whether it would be resolved at all. I just hoped and believed. You know, sometimes you see four identical numbers on the phone, you make a wish. And I constantly wished that my daughter would recover. I only thought about it at any free moment. Thank God that there are so many caring people today!
In Amosov, Lisa was fully examined and operated on literally on the second day. They put such a metal mesh in the hole, and the fabric will grow on it over the years. Carry out such an operation for a maximum of half an hour. That is, half an hour later I was brought my girl, and she no longer has a heart defect, the blood circulates normally. All. We need to smile about this. And I still cry when I think about it. It is difficult to express your joy in words! "
Now we live like all ordinary children, go to the playground, ride a roller coaster and swing, learn to draw, read books. Soon we will go to kindergarten. In short, rejoice and enjoy life!
Now I remember how everything went and I do not believe in myself, in just 30 minutes the doctors were able to help us and my fears, which tormented me for two years, are in the past ! " Roman Betsenko He survived