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Helping Matteo, diagnosed with ALS at 30 years old

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Hello my name is Dario De Vei, I am starting this page to raise money for my cousin Matteo. Growing up together Matteo and I loved to play football, go out, do regular things that young people do. He would even go on to pursue a career as a footballer near our home town in Italy. Unfortunately his life has massively shifted in the last year. Now 32 years old Matteo found out at the end of 2018 he was diagnosed with ALS, a motoneuron disease that causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. What many people now know as the disease that Stephen Hawking also developed and lived with. He has gone from a young man using his physically to earn his living to being reduced to limited mobility. One can only imagine how distressing such news is especially giving his age (most cases of ALS develop around and over the age of 55). Since the horrible news he is progressively having more difficulty with the most simple tasks such as waking up from bed, dressing, even holding a glass in his hand. This disease is powerful and his body is changing rapidly ever day, he has started to have difficulty even swallowing. A few months before the diagnosis Matteo and his fiance Giulia found out that she was pregnant. Wonderful news for a young healthy couple in love but given the timing they were soon overwhelmed by the fact that they would have more to take on than they had anticipated. Tommaso was born on the 5th July of 2019. I can't even imagine how to balance the joy of a new born baby and the problems of a degenerative illness. Matteo already finds it hard to hold his own baby in his arms, and his finance now has to return from maternity leave and back to work to support them. Although they have some family nearby the care will soon be around the clock and with everyone working there will be many times when Giulia will require a nanny for the baby and hopefully a carer to help with Matteo’s everyday activities. As Matteo was self employed he just has just started to receive a very low pension which is not even enough to cover his gas expense when he has to travel over 100 miles for his hospital appointments. Furthermore Matteo and his family are forced to return living with his parents, cutting the extra cost of rent and to have family nearby. However in doing so they will need to renovate his father's house to accommodate him. This will include putting a bathroom and bedroom and new disability access all on the ground floor which currently does not exist. The money we are hoping to raise will go towards renovating his home to make it as accessible to him as possible, to support him financially with bills etc as he is no longer able to work and his finance is the only one working to support their family. It will also go towards trips to and from the specialist hospital to receive his medication. Hopefully if any extra funds are raise we can help his fiance Giulia employ some sort of help around the house, as she needs support in this difficult time. This is urgent as he is detiriorating rapidly each day.  As this campaign  is base in the U.K. and Matteo lives in Italy the money raised  must be withdrawn from the U.K.  I (Matteo 's cousins  Dario  De Vei) will withdraw the money and transfer 100% of it to Matteo personal account in Italy. Currently is no cure for ALS but the world is a mystery, we are keeping our minds and hearts open. In the meantime we want to make life as comfortable for Matteo and his new family in this uncomfortable time. Thank you so much for reading, please share this post as much as you can, any donation big or small with help us greatly. Wishing you all good health and happiness in the new year. _______________________________________ Salve mi chiamo Dario De Vei, ho deciso di iniziare questa raccolta fondi per mio cugino Matteo. Crescendo assieme amavamo giocare a calcio,uscire assiene e divertirci come qualsiasi bambino fa. Lui stava anche rincorrendo il sogno di fare carriera come calciatore in Italia. Sfortunatamente la sua vita é stata sconvolta in questo ultimo anno. Matteo ha solo 32 anni e alla fine del 2018 gli é stata diagnosticata la SLA ,malattia degenerativa che colpisce i motoneuroni e il controllo volontario dei muscoli. L'età media nei casi di Sla si aggira attorno hai 55 anni di etá. Dal momento della terribile notizia ad ora  Matteo sta avendo progressivamente sempre piú problemi nei piu semplici esercizi giornalieri come alzarsi dal letto, vestirsi o semplicemente trattenere un bicchiere in mano. La malattia e molto invasiva, il suo corpo sta cambiando velocemente e sta avendo problemi anche nel deglutire. Qualche mese prima della brutta diagnosi, Matteo e la fidanzata Giulia sono venuti alla scoperta della meravigliosa notizia di aspettare un bambino. Tommaso é nato il 5 luglio scorso. Non riesco neanche ad immaginare come si possa bilanciare la gioia di una nuova vita con il dolore di una malattia degenerativa.Matteo sta giá faticando nel tenere il piccolo Tommaso fra le sue braccia e presto Giulia dovrá riprendere a lavorare dopo la maternitá,questo significa che ci sará bisogno di aiuto nel seguire Tommaso nella crescita e Matteo nella quotidianità. Le loro famiglie saranno presenti ma avendo tutti un lavoro, un aiuto per Guilia,Tommaso e Matteo sara' essenziale. Matteo,libero professionista da questo mesa ha iniziato a percepire una pensione di soli Euro 221 che non basta nemmeno a coprire le spese di trasporto per le visite ospedaliere distanti piu di 100km da casa. Matteo e' anche costretto a ritornare a vivere a casa del padre cosi da eliminare il costo dell'affitto ma per fare questo dovra apportare delle modifiche strutturali alla casa di famiglia per rendere la sua vita piu agevole ,come ad esempio portare il bagno e le stanze da letto al piano terra, dove al momento non esistono. I soldi che stiamo cercando di raccogliere serviranno per rinnovare la sua casa per renderla piu comoda possibile,supportare la sua spese quotidiane dal momento che non e piu in gradi di lavorare e aiutare la famiglia nei vari spostamenti nelle cliniche specializzate. Nella speranza di riuscire a raccogliere abbastanza fondi vorremmo cercare di aiutare Giulia a trovare un supporto casalingo per la crescita di Tommaso e le costanti necessita' di Matteo. Questa campagna è stata iniziata qui in U.K.  e visto che Matteo vive in Italia io Dario De Vei  mi prendo tutte le responsabilitá nel ritirare il totale delle donazioni e  trasferire il 100% di queste direttamente a Matteo . Attualmente non esistono cure per la SLA ma cerchiamo di avere una mente aperta e la speranza che la ricerca riesca a trovare una soluzione a questo malattia in crescita. Ringrazio con tutto il cuore tutte le persone che stanno leggendo questa pagina e tutte le persone che riusciranno a contribuire alla causa. condividete il piu possibile. Vi auguro un felice anno nuovo.

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  • daniele rancan
    • £30
    • 5 yrs

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Dario de Vei
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