Rista and Vlatko have been tied for bed for 25 years: Father died of sadness, mother is the only consolation and salvation. Her cry hurts a lot (PHOTO) (VIDEO)
Nedo Dimitrijevski from Veles, a city in the central part of Macedonia, couldn't stand the despair, pain, and weakness because he couldn't help his gravely sick sons Rista (39) and Vlatko (36). One day, he went to the mountains and he never came back, his heart stopped from sorrow.
Ever since then, all burden around the children fell down to the weak back of their old mother Lila. She is watching her helpless children, withering daily. She is trying, when she has the strength, to cheer them up at least a little bit. But her strength is coming to an end. She is afraid that she will become discouraged.
They were once happy, marry, full with optimism and will to live, and today they are sad and desperate. Evil fate played with the family Dimitrijevski.
Thirty nine-year-old Rista and three years old younger Vlatko have been tied to the bed for a quarter of the century. At the same age, they received an almost identical diagnosis - cerebral palsy and developmental disorders.
Though shocked by this, Father Nedo and Lila's mother bravely faced a terrible reality and the fact that their children will need them for the rest of their lives.
Parents of Rista and Vlatno have been fighting the best they could with the diseases of their children. They didn't ask for help. Until five years ago when Nedo suddenly died out of sadness...
He has been going to the mountains in the past few months to cry out and to scream, to get out the pain from his soul. He went at one time and he didn't come back. They found him dead in the forest. His heart didn't make it. He died out of pain. The greatest suffering for the aged mother of the two paralyzed brothers is starting at that moment.
- It's hard, it's terribly hard for me and I can't describe it to you - Lila Dimitrijevska started her said story for the reporters of Television 24.
- They haven't gone out for five years outside of these four walls. There is no one who can carry them. I can't do it on my own. They are craving to go out a bit. The younger one is crying all the time. He says that everybody is going on vacation somewhere, why can't he go - Lila continues.
While she was talking, her helpless children were sitting on the couch one across the other, motionless. Mother placed chairs above their knees so their hands wouldn't hang, and she would approach one and the other at the time to massage their hands, to move them a bit and to rub their back.
This family receives a modest monetary compensation from the state, but the money is not enough for everything. Whats even worse, instead of mother, the state named the older brother Rista to be the guardian of younger brother Vlatko, so just one of them is receiving financial help.
Mother Lila is paying for the caregiver and the masseur, who is coming once a week. Children want more, but Lila can't afford it. Veles county has donated her a crane so she can somehow lift them and to put them to bed to sleep, but she has no strength to take them out to clean air.
- They would want to go outside, to see the world, to go to the pool. To swim like other children, they want but I can't - their mother said desperately.
Several years ago, she sent them to the Rehabilitation Institute in Banja Bansko, near Strumica, but when she saw that the care of the patients there was terrible, she returned them home. "I have a feeling, she says, that the state has given up on people like this."
- I appeal to the Government to open an institution in each municipality, to take them at least for three or four hours, so I can rest a bit. I can not do it all by myself. I'm not the only mother that needs help. Many mothers need it. I have experienced all this and know how hard and painful it is - says Lila.
While the mother stood in front of the television cameras, her sons were motionless, only blinking with their eyes, listening. Older Riste seemed calmer. He faced his own disease and he was somehow dealing with it. But the younger Vlatko was rebelling. Anxiety was visible.
Their mother said that Risto is always saying "Don't be nervous, brother, we will be normal people one day".
However, they both realize that the life has played a game with them. That is why a single tour of Veles and the nearby lake Mladost, which they haven't seen for years, would make them really happy.
Anybody who wishes to help this family can contact Lila on the phone number + 389 78 239 169.
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(Telegraf.co.uk / D.J.)
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