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Hear ?! Can’t hear!





UAH 510,000 COLLECTED. Simple Help Fund, Privatbank clients and Ufond readers contributed UAH 510,000. Hospitalization in January 2018. The operation was performed.

Fede Churilov needs hearing aids with expensive implants.

Fede for a year and a half . He hears nothing. The doctor says that Fedya is still too young to suffer from his deafness. He still doesn’t understand what all the other people are hearing. And he doesn’t understand what all people say, and he can’t speak because he has never heard it done. Hearing aids that Fedi’s mother wears in the morning when he gets out of bed, the boy perceives as an interesting game, as other children play, for example, with a stethoscope. In hearing aids, the boy hears very quiet and very inaudible sounds, twenty percent of what ordinary people hear. In the evening the game ends. Mom removes hearing aids from Fedya’s ears and puts him to bed . The boy sleeps in complete silence.

That day, Lena, Fedi’s mother, remembers by the minute. She walked over to the crib and smiled at her two-month-old son. Fedya lay and stared at his mother’s face. In her hand she held a new beautiful rattle - a gift from friends. The room filled with a melodious ring. But the baby did not pay any attention to him and continued to look at his mother, on whose face the first alarm appeared. Lena shook the rattle a few more times, watching the reaction again and again. Fedya did not try to find the source of the sound. The bell was already ringing in my ears. Then she clapped her hands. Turned on the music on the phone at maximum volume. Then she turned on the hair dryer. She slammed the door. No reaction. With trembling hands she called her husband:

- Fedya does not hear!

- Do not invent, I will be soon!

"Fedya can’t hear!" This is true!

- Nonsense. I’ll be there soon, and you’ll see.

Lena dropped the challenge. She sat down and covered her face with her hands. No tears. No emotions. Just emptiness, just silence. As if unplugged.
At the Institute of Otolaryngology named after Professor Alexei Isidorovich Kolomiychenko, we went for a consultation for good news, and suddenly - a sulfur plug, hearing loss, and anything else. But it turned out - for the sentence. There is nothing to wash, treat and prevent. The child is completely deaf. Lena has a bad memory of how they got home, what they did, what they talked about. The world turned upside down.

More than a year has passed since then. Anger and resentment, torn from within, managed to take control. At 7 months, Fede was fitted with hearing aids. They should be worn every morning and taken off at bedtime. Without them, the baby does not hear a sound. When he is in them, he turns to his name:

- Fedya! Where’s the pussy? His mother asks loudly.

And the boy immediately looks for his favorite red cat. That’s the whole result. Now the baby is 1 year and 6 months old. Parents deal with their son every day - painstaking hard work. He says the words clearly and loudly, putting his pen to his cheek so that he can hear the vibrations:

- Tick-toe, mu-mu, yes-ah!

Fede manages to repeat only vowels, only intonations reach him:

- I-a, u-u, a-a.

The hope that the son could be helped to regain his hearing and learn to speak originated in the Churilov family eleven years ago. After all, it was then that their eldest daughter was diagnosed with the same diagnosis as now Fedor.
Then, without waiting for help from the state, Elena and Sergei, on their own and with the help of family and friends, bought their daughter a cochlear implant for hearing aids. Thanks to the implant and constant classes, the girl hears, speaks and studies in a regular school, not in a boarding school.

Cochlear implantation is a modern method of hearing compensation when hearing aids do not help. A system of electrodes is built into the patient’s inner ear, which, with the help of electrical stimulation of the preserved fibers of the auditory nerve, helps to perceive sound information.

Today, Fedya is in the state queue for such an operation - 336th. About 50 such operations are performed annually at the Institute of Otolaryngology. Even with stable annual funding for their turn, the baby will have to wait about 5-6 years. This means that the chance to learn to hear speech and speak can be lost forever.

In order to learn to recognize speech, Fede has to go through a very difficult path, at the beginning of which his parents realized the most important thing for themselves:

- Despite all the problems, Fedya is given to us by God ... Not as overcoming to learn. And Dan, as a reward! - says Elena.

Author Irina Storozhenko
Photo Anna Zagorskaya

Professor, MD Mehmet Zia Ozier, Asibadem Clinic (Turkey):“Fedi has bilateral sensorineural hearing loss of the 4th degree. He has all the indications for cochlear implantation. Due to its tender age, its integration into the hearing environment after cochlear implantation will be successful. Fedya will be able to go to kindergarten and then to public school. Because it is very promising, it is important not to waste time, as the effectiveness of cochlear implantation is highest at the age of three or four years.

The Turkish clinic Asibadem issued an invoice for $ 18,000. This is UAH 510,000. Fedi ’s relatives do not have such money .

Dear friends! If you decide to save Fedya Churilov, do not be confused by the price of rescue. Any of your donations will be gratefully accepted. You can send a donation by bank transfer to the Fund. All the necessary details are in the fund. You can also use our electronic payment system by making a donation with a credit card or electronic cash, including from abroad.

Responded (took the details): 1689 people Helped
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Collected: 510 000 UAH

02/15/2018
Fyodor Churilov successfully completed cochlear implantation at the clinic Asibadem Bodrum (Turkey).A cochlear implant was implanted in the boy’s right ear, a device that receives and recognizes electromagnetic signals from a speech processor attached to the outside. The operation was successful. All sensors gave positive "feedback". Implant connected! Thanks to this operation, it was possible to compensate for the boy’s hearing loss. Now Fedor will do a lot and learn to hear, speak, be able to develop and communicate.
Fedi’s relatives sincerely thank all those who responded for their help!
Accept our gratitude friends! We will continue to follow the fate of the boy!