Special needs adoption from a Jewish perspective.

Special needs adoption from a Jewish perspective.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Untreated hydrocephalus

Looking through usynovite.ru, I found something I did not expect.  Children with untreated hydrocephalus.  I thought shunts were standard procedure for decades already, but it seems that these kids are sentenced to die a slow, painful, and totally preventable death, as their heads get too heavy for them to hold up and their brains fail under the pressure of cerebro-spinal fluid.

These are 5 year olds:

Marat
http://www.usynovite.ru - Марат Р.


Stepan

http://www.usynovite.ru - Степан П.

Ivan
http://www.usynovite.ru - Иван В.

Alexander
http://www.usynovite.ru - Александр С.
Danil
http://www.usynovite.ru - Даниил Ч.

Anna
http://www.usynovite.ru - Анна Г.

Yevgenia
http://www.usynovite.ru - Евгения Р.

Anna

http://www.usynovite.ru - Анна Г.


 6 year olds:

Roman
http://www.usynovite.ru - Роман Ш.

Vladimir
http://www.usynovite.ru - Владимир Р.

Anastasia
http://www.usynovite.ru - Анастасия Ш.


I don't think I found any older than that.

3 comments:

  1. I have been heartbroken by those pictures too.

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  2. So preventable! Would Doctors Without Borders be able to go and perform shunts in these regions? Or some other charity?

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  3. Looks like by now some of these kids are.... gone.

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