Between silence and noise
COLLECTED 57,600 g of yarrow. Hearing aids are paid for and installed.
Dmitry Surin needs digital hearing aids.
Fourteen-year-old Dmytro has bilateral neurosensory deafness of the 4th degree. This means that without hearing aids the boy cannot distinguish words, and the world around him turns into a chaotic set of sounds and constant noise, as from a passing train. Dimi will be helped by high-frequency digital hearing aids. If they are not installed now, the boy will forget to speak. Then you can forget about school and communication with others.
Dima was born a healthy child, there were no complications or health problems. But at the age of five, the boy caught a bad cold, suffered from pneumonia, after which complications began in the form of hearing loss.
- When we were discharged from the hospital, it seemed to me that my son did not respond to sounds at all, - says Elena, Dima’s mother. - But the doctors assured that everything was fine, that the child’s ears were just plugged. Soon everything will be fine. But it happened differently. At the age of 6, doctors diagnosed Dima with bilateral chronic cochleoneuritis, grade 3 deafness in both ears.
After the diagnosis, Dima’s parents bought hearing aids and began to take their son to classes with a speech therapist and speech pathologist. And over time, the boy developed a phrasal language, he went to school.
- Recently, I noticed that Dima began to listen to what I said, to my words. Trying to disassemble, understand them. There was no such thing before, - Olena notes. Dima parses the words when they speak very loudly, almost shouting. At the same time he should approach the interlocutor almost closely. So he can feel something.
At the last consultation with a deaf and dumb man, it turned out that the boy’s hearing became worse - bilateral deafness of the second or third degree grew into the fourth degree, and old hearing aids are already weak for such a degree of hearing loss and failed. Doctors advise to install new, more powerful hearing aids as soon as possible.
However, with a deafness of 4 degrees, hearing aids are not issued free of charge, and Dima’s mother is unable to buy them. She is raising two sons, with her husband, Dima’s father, who has not lived in divorce for a long time.
Without hearing aids, the boy will one day completely lose the ability to perceive sounds, will be in complete silence.
"Help no one," Olena admits. - What will happen to Dima now? How will he go to school now? How will his condition and mood change? I’m even afraid to imagine ... We have one hope for the participation of good people.
Will we help Dima ?!
Pediatric otolaryngologist, hearing aid specialist at the Betterton hearing center Ohanyan Khrystyna (Kyiv): "Dmitry needs high-power multichannel digital devices. This is the only way to compensate for hearing loss. And the boy will be able to fully learn and communicate with peers.
The supplier of hearing aids billed UAH 57,600. Dear friends! If you decide to help Dmitry Sur In , do not be confused by the price of salvation. Any of your donations will be gratefully accepted. All the necessary details are in the Fund. You can use our electronic payment system by making a donation from a bank card or electronic cash, including from abroad. And also on the website of the Ukrainian Charity Exchange, in the project - Dima: turn on the sound Responded (took the details): 17 people
Helped by: 17 people
Collected: UAH 57,600 On September 19 , 2019, Dmytro Surin underwent binaural hearing aids - devices were installed on both ears in the Betterton hearing center (Kyiv). Digital, high-power hearing aids with earbuds are made from individual molds. The devices compensate for the lack of hearing, thanks to them Dima will be able to communicate normally with others and distinguish sounds well. Elena, Dima’s mother, thanks the readers and partners of the Fund for their help! Accept our gratitude, friends! We will definitely follow the fate of the boy.