Long months of wandering around hospitals, several doctors, dozens of tests. What was seen as a complication after the flu, in fact turned out to be a completely different, congenital disease ...
I even have nothing to remember about my childhood. I remember only endless hospitals, nurses, doctors and many different scary words - cerebral palsy, myopathy, myelitis ...
One of the terrible diagnoses turned out to be correct. At the age of 10, the parents took their daughter, weakening from year to year, to Ufa, where doctors invited the whole family to take a genetic test. Based on the results of the analysis, it was finally possible to make an accurate diagnosis: spinal muscular amyotrophy of the second type.
SMA is a disease in which the motor neurons of the spinal cord are affected. As a result, the patient's muscles of the legs, back and neck weaken. The muscles that are designed to keep the back straight are weakened. Because of this, severe scoliosis develops, a person bends without muscle support. Not only muscles and bones suffer, but also internal organs: due to scoliosis, they are displaced, compressed and lose the ability to function normally.