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Paralysed girl makes 'Christmas miracle' recovery
By William Green
A 12-year-old girl’s recovery from complete paralysis has been described as a "Christmas miracle" by doctors treating her.
Marijeta Skoverqani's ordeal had begun at Easter this year when she complained of tiredness and then suffered paralysis in her hand and feet.
She soon developed problems with speaking, swallowing and seeing and despite treatment and undergoing surgery to remove her thymus gland at two different hospitals she was completely paralysed by the time she began a gruelling blood plasma treatment at Linz’s Elisabethinen Hospital one month ago.
Doctors had diagnosed Marijeta with myasthenia gravis or "false paralysis" which affects 100 people in every one million.
The neurological disease which leads to muscle weakness is caused by a faulty reaction in the immune system in which antibodies block nerve signals to muscles.
The hospital’s doctors started immune-absorption therapy on Marijeta which involved a four-hour-long sessions when her blood plasma was washed and harmful antibodies were cleaned away while she was given medication to stop them building up again.
The girl’s symptoms disappeared after three sessions and she has now been able to go back to school.
Marijeta said today (Tues): "I am doing one thousand per cent better, and I have adopted ‘positive thinking’ as my life motto."
Rainer Oberbauer, the head of the hospital’s third internal section of kidney and high-pressure illnesses, transplant medicine and rheumatology, and senior physician Bernhard Robl said today (Tues) the girl’s recovery was "a Christmas miracle."
They added she would, though, need additional treatment.
Austrian Times
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Bohdan Szejner, STL wrote on 16. 12. 2009 from Cracow, Poland about "Paralysed girl makes 'Chr..."
My Christnas message to Marjeta is this: no matter how bad things may appear, never loose faith in the power of God through His Son Jesus who is about to celebrate His Birthday. He wants you to get well because He is a Good Father, and He never fails in accomplishing what He wants!
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