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Help Baby Ridit Hear With A Hearing Implant

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Hello Everyone,

I am writing to you today because i truly believe in you all and know that you will genuinely consider this request. This is about our son Ridit Gore who was welcomed into this world in February 2018. Our happiness knew no boundaries upon his arrival into our family.

While we were celebrating this life event, we received a shock of our lives when we came to know that Ridit was diagnosed with Profound hearing loss for both his ears. It meant that he cannot hear with both his ears to an extent of 100 percent. While this extremely shocking news pulled me (Amit) and my wife (Madhura) and our family into deep sorrow we didnt waste time and reached out for expert advice by an audiologist.

It was that time when we met several other families with similar children having the same problem of hearing. He has been put into a speech therapy session using hearing aid device on both the ears which will continue for the next few more months which helps stimulate and activate the part of his brain taking care of sound.

He doesn’t hear all of it even with hearing aids as he has profound to severe loss. Now there is a proven solution for this. Though artificial but it will help him listen to the sounds just like the normal child It is called Hearing implants. A device that gets implanted into the muscles behind the ear. While the internal device will be implanted life long the external device which acts as a transmitter of the sound is something that he will have to wear externally to hear those sounds.

This device along with Surgery costs around 16 lakhs Rupees for a single ear and 30 lakhs for both the ears if done together at the same time. The surgery at such an early stage (When he turns 1 year old) is necessary to help Ridit develop his skills which are bound to the process of hearing. Any delay in the surgery will only mean that his development as close to a normal child will be delayed and all his further academic and other skills will delay for that period as well.

This hearing defect is by birth and hence not covered under any Mediclaim policy. We, myself and my wife being a middle class family are struck with a huge financial crisis that holds us from taking any further step towards this necessary surgery. As parents we want our child to grow as good as any other normal child would do so. Arranging of funds in not something that we are capable of for such huge amount.

While we are making arrangements by selling some of our personal belongings and raising funds with the help of our relatives the amount is still falling short as we are able to cope up with only 10 lakhs so far. Personal loan of this amount would incur a huge installment every month which would drain both our salaries leaving us with very less amount.

The next challenge is to save for his future needs as this external device keeps upgrading after every few year (5 to 7 years of time span) and one device alone would cost around 5 lakhs.

Hence me and my wife sincerely request you to extend your helping hand and support us in this ordeal which will only help our baby Ridit to grow up and lead a normal life.

A small help from each one of you is equivalent to a lifelong ability for our child and a simple thank you will not be enough to express the kind of favor you would do us with any amount that you decide to contribute in this cause!

We as parents of Ridit will be thankful to you until our last breath and will also let Ridit know of such great human beings lending their helping hand for overcoming his issues when his parents needed it the most!!

Thanking you in advance for the rest of our lives!

Amit & Madhura

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22nd January 2019

Dear Supporters,

Thank you all so much for supporting our baby boy.

He underwent the operation and is doing perfectly fine. The operation was successful and as of now his ear is bandaged. After three weeks, once it heals, the doctors will attach the machine and switch it on.

Thank you all so much.

Regards,
Amit

2nd January 2019

Hello Donors,

We are going ahead with the surgery planned for 18th January 2019 for which we are initiating the fund transfer to the company that provides the implant device. Due to his thin nerve issues we are starting with his right ear first and then after 3/4 months will operate the left ear after checking the response of him thru the device implanted on the right ear.

Thanking you all for your overwhelming response on this fundraiser and me and my wife are lucky and blessed enough to have such beautiful souls around us and standing by us in the need of this hour!!

Thank you again!

- Amit & Madhura

15th December 2018

Hello Everyone!!

It's been quite some time since the fundraiser was started. Last month and during the start of this month we made a couple of rounds to Hinduja Hospital for getting the CT scan and MRI reports done for Ridit. We were a bit shocked to know after the Scans that Ridit has few complications in his surgery. But the surgeon has informed that the surgery is possible. Given the facts of complications now we are facing some possible limitations for going ahead with Bi-lateral surgery.

Hence we have fixed the date of 18th January for taking Ridit through Uni-lateral surgery for the Right ear. This should give us a way to know how much progress does ridit do after the surgery. Based on that we will plan for the left ear after 4 months. This is the latest update I have.

Again I and my wife are thankful to all of you for the great financial assistance you have provided us. It is because of this assistance that I and my wife were able to take up the surgery decision so fast. Thank you Again!!

-Amit & Madhura