
Aid Alexander's Battle with Scoliosis
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I'm Cindy Trejo, Im funding this page for my niece. Her son is currently going through treatment due to scoliosis. She is in Zacatecas Mexico, and as you might now, the situation in Mexico is hard for families with low income or no income at all. She'll explain with her own words the difficulties and challenges they are going through.
Hello, good afternoon, my name is Claudia Ibeth de Haro Trejo, I am the mother of this little one named Alexander Alexis de Haro. He is 9 years old. We are originally from Morelos Zacatecas, Mexico. My son was born with congenital scoliosis. This disability involves many things which are; slow learning, difficultly doing things by himself, headache, and spine pain. He needs a special girdle like the one shown in the photos, but that girdle is constantly changed because he is still growing. The doctors are going to change his girdle for a corset of a special material to help correct his posture. For this disability, there is not much to do in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. The only places where they treat these congenital diseases is in Aguascalientes and, in Mexico City, in the Shriners Hospital for Children. The traumatologist who checked him for the first time was Dr. Alfonso Cabral Suarez. He is the Santa Fe, Guadalupe Zacatecas. He is the one who sent my son to Mexico City. My son takes physiotherapy by Dr. Victoria Esther Barba who gives him strengthening and breathing exercises to prepare him for his spine surgery which will carry two rods that go from his cervical to the sacrum. Before the operation he needs a bunch of studies to be done to make sure that he does not have any other malformation and prepare him for that delicate operation since he is very low in weight. Most of these studies are difficult to perform due to the lack of places or devices in the state, which implies leaving the state of Zacatecas to perform them and economically it is difficult. We simply cannot afford all my son needs, the physiotherapy lessons, consultation with the trauma , studies of different types, the girdle, the corset, medicine to help with the pain, classes with an special education teacher because of his disability, it is difficult for him to lear (slow learning), the appointments in Mexico City, truck fare, accommodation, food, and the spine surgery coming up. We do not have any medical insurance so everything is out of pocket. I tried to be as brief as possible and summarized this disability and its complication is causing my son. Thank you.







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Cindy Trejo-Ortega
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New Braunfels, TX