Annemarie learns how to walk

Annemarie is a little girl, 2 years old and full of life! Nothing wrong at first sight but...as a baby she received a vaccination in a wrong way and because of that some of her muscles cramped and didn't develop the way it should. While she was a small baby nothing was really observed but as she is growing up now, the results of the wrong injection becomes more and more clear... As other children learned to walk, Annemarie was only able to make some movements with her feet if she would be holding on to a wall. She never walked or ran normally. She is also not able to use her right arm. A very sad situation just due to a wrong way of injecting a vaccination.

Together with her mother, Annemarie has spend the last 10 days in a rehabilitation hospital in Chisinau, a place specially for children. The place looks very nice but the methods used to treat the children who come there are still back in time. Besides that also corruption is again part of the system. If you don't give extra money or even a box of chocolate to the doctor, no proper help is offered and you will be helped last....

Unfortunately Annemarie's parents don't have a lot of money and so this little girl wont get the best treatment. Through the massage and treatment she got in the last weeks, she is now able to hobble around without holding on to a wall but she has not yet learned to use her right arm. The chance that she will walk again or use her arm in a normal way is very small because her parents don't have the finances to bribe the doctors.

This year Annemarie needs to come at least 5 more times to Chisinau and stay every time for about 10 days in the hospital.

While visiting this girl and her mother in the hospital, I realized again how "unfair" things are and how due to a little mistake, the chances in life can turn out so different. I pray that God will heal this little girl and make her walk and run...