Dress from Azalia – Kommersant

The first eight years of life, Azalia Gabbasova from Ufa practically did not hurt. At nine moms began to notice that her daughter would be a little stooping. At eleven, doctors revealed the 2nd degree of scoliosis, at the age of 12 severe back pain began, Gorb grew on the right, and 3 diagnosed 3rd degree scoliosis. A year later, the 4th, the most severe degree and permanent painkillers. A healthy girl became disabled. But you can still return everything back. To do this, you need an operation in Moscow using the new VBT technology (Vertebral Body Tethering) and then a couple of months of rehabilitation.

Azalia returns home from school and lies in lessons. And how else? It is impossible to sit again after a few hours at the desk – the back hurts. It hurts too. Nevertheless, even in such an unusual position, Azalia does not relax: after forty minutes he puts his notebooks and gets a little, leaning on his elbows-everything is ready. She was always an excellent student, although she did not make special efforts to this. Now the first annual four appeared in the diary – in algebra. An unloved object was the first to suffer from scoliosis. Well, let. It is much worse that I have long moved to the closet and there is an sewing machine idle.

“Azalea from the fifth grade went to a circle, where the girls came up with clothes of clothes, painted patterns and sewed themselves,” says Mom Lilia, another “flower” in the family Gabbasovs. – Classes were built very interestingly – entire collections sewed. For example, « Africa »: bright colors, full of scope for imagination. Or “London”-there, on the contrary, dark green, restrained, well, in extreme cases, into the cell. And our Bashkir outfits, of course. My daughter had a favorite dress with a beautiful gray apron with embroidery, she came up with everything herself.

The girls were lucky with the leader of the circle – she also drove them to contests. For example, on the famous « Golden I needle » in the Moscow Fashion House Vyacheslav Zaitsev, where the children gathered from all over the country. It was especially great that the participants of the circle there themselves showed their clothes – they went out to the podium.

First of all, I had to part with the catwalk. Azalia, previously so slender, was terribly shy. The back could be hidden under long loose hair, but it is impossible on the stage. The dress went to the closet, the girl began to wear oversize. She even came up with such styles, because they sew clothes not only for slender long -legged beauties, everyone wants to look good. But she has grown from those models, but it is not possible to sew new ones: working after a sewing machine is certainly not for scoliosis of the 4th degree. Yasmin’s best girlfriend still goes to the circle, but Azalia is not.

Then school events left. Together with Yasmina, Azalia arranged contests of crafts, picturesque work. And the girls asked for labor lessons from first -graders – they taught them from simple things to create all kinds of beauty. But during such a lesson you have to stand a lot – soon it became impossible.

How to live on? In the first scolious years, doctors recommended Azalia therapeutic gymnastics, sports. She carefully did everything, but in vain.

“We and we took my daughter to the osteopats, kinesiologists,” Mom says. “This is all some kind of deception: one trick-3 thousand rubles, you need ten tricks, and then they say: wait, soon everything itself will fall into place. And nothing changes.

The operation loomed on the horizon. “It is required to install a rigid fixing structure on the spine. But not now, but at 18 years old, when the growth will end, ”the doctors said. To suffer another four years? Lilia learned from acquaintances about VBT technology: instead of a hard design, flexible cords-cords are used-they gently pull the vertebrae in the right direction, while without depriving them of mobility. We went to the Moscow clinic, consulted with a doctor who does such operations – and, as Lilia says, “confidence immediately appeared.” The doctor considers the operation necessary.

“It would be nice to make it this summer in order to have time to undergo rehabilitation in the fall, then finish the ninth grade and enter our Ufa State College of Technology and Design: there is a specialty“ Clothing Designer, ”Mom makes plans.

And Azalia now has geometric models of youth clothing on his mind – she cannot think about anything else.

VBT technology operations are not yet paid by state insurance medicine. Only with your help can Azalia be cured.

Alexey Kamensky, Bashkortostan