Following complications at birth, Angelina, suffering from cerebral paralysis, presents a significant development delay for an 18 -month -old child. His parents use everyone’s generosity to help them.
Jasmine and Silvio found serenity. A certain joy, too, to see the smile hanging on the face of their youngest, Angelina, 18 months old, on which the 5 -year -old brother, Mayann. Barely over a year ago, such a situation was almost miraculous for this family from Nice, who came to live in Lourdes in 2022 … because, since the birth of Angelina on 1is April 2024, the small tribe had to overcome more terrible tests than the other.
“I was pregnant with binoculars: Angela and Angelina,” said Jasmine, the 37 -year -old mother. One day, in the sixth month of pregnancy, I realized that I no longer felt Angela in the belly … An ultrasound then revealed that her heart rate had decreased a lot. “
Despite a cesarean, an emergency, Angela did not survive … a heartbreaking in utero for her parents, to which are added the very premature complications of the second twin. “Angelina made a cardiac arrest when she was born. She was revived but she then lacked oxygen at the time, which had consequences on her brain, continues Silvio, the father. She was endowed and then transferred urgently to Toulouse in order to be placed as a incubator.”
Delay in development
As if it was not so difficult to live, the healthcare team finds some time later that Angelina has a heart malformation. The operation is inevitable and, unfortunately, turns out to be a failure … “Angelina has almost died. There was a perforation at the level of the heart which caused hemorrhage, recalls the couple, not without difficulty. The already existing after -effects have been aggravated since a whole part of the brain was destroyed due to the lack of oxygen, forming a cavity located on the right.”
Three weeks later, there is no other choice than to reiterate the operation, although it is very risky … It is successful and, after three months of hospitalization, Jasmine and Silvio Montanucci obtain the green light to bring Angelina to the house, notably with care at the Center for Early Medico-Social Action (CAMSP) in Tarbes. Today aged 18 months and suffering from cerebral paralysis, Angelina is progressing step by step, showing “extraordinary courage” which inspires her parents: “because of everything she has experienced, she has lagged behind in her development. But she never gives up!”
Fundraising
Besides, it is still impossible to know what it will be able to do in the future. “Will she be able to walk?” Can she speak, “questions the couple. Anyway, a long path of rehabilitation is announced …” In particular by learning with parents in the same situation, Jasmine and Silvio have learned that there are intensive rehabilitation courses that can be useful for the development of Angelina. Problem: these devices do not exist in France and are therefore very expensive. Over € 1,000 for a week of care, not to mention everything that goes next like transport or accommodation …
“Thanks to the generosity of our loved ones and the members of our son’s school, we have already planned at the end of the year to take Angelina to a specialized center in Barcelona, they continue. But it would be necessary to reproduce this operation several times a year so that it is as effective as possible, which represents a hell of a budget …” Hence the initiative of Jasmine and Silvio: an online prize pool, calling for a better number of the future their daughter.
“The objective is to do everything in their power so that Angelina can have a most normal development possible and that she can acquire many skills of motor skills, underline the parents. Especially since she is still very young, this is where everything is played out! Thank you in advance to all those who will help us to offer her this chance …”
