Karina Chairutdinova

Khayrutdinova Karina Amirovna, born 01-03-2007

Diagnosis: Right-Sided Hemiparesis.
Concomitant diagnosis: Focal epilepsy.
Idiopathic component on the right. Hemianopsia on the right. Delay of psychoverbal development.
Surgical intervention hemispherectomy on the left 07/17/2013.

At birth Karina was diagnosed with focal epilepsy. In July 2013 Karina underwent a surgical intervention in a German clinic – left hemispherectomy. Doctors eased Karina her epileptic seizures but a hemiparesis on the right side was formed: there is no hand-grasp on the right side, right foot hangs down. Karina wears an orthosis.

After the surgical intervention Karina actively began to develop and make progress in training. The speech appeared. Now girl has a large vocabulary, she speaks a lot but often it is not legible. Because she needs classes with a speech therapist.

Karina is a home-schooled student. Now she is in the third grade. She can spell, she writes and completes tasks and examples. Karina has a good memory, she learns verses by heart with pleasure and knows many poems. And once a week girl visits classes with her mother in the Sunday school: dancing, theater, music and a creative workshop. Karina has wonderful crafts made of plasticine, paper, foamiran and fabric. And she always participates with them in creativity competitions. In December 2016 she took the third place in the state bird feeder competition.
Karina likes to do puzzles and Lego constructor, to paint, to draw with colored sand, to compose pictures of rhinestones and sequins, to watch favorite cartoons at home.

Karina and her mother regularly go to rehabilitation in Almaty. The procedures for the girl are paid from the state budget but her mother accompanies her child at her own expense. For the moment she goes to rehabilitation once a year but doctors recommend Karina to do this at least twice a year.
Another constant item of family expenses is a purchase of an anticonvulsant drug “Ospolot” which is ordered in Germany. Karina takes this medicine constantly, there are needed four packs of medicine for one year at the cost of 80 euros for each pack.