Ariana
Khajoyan

Ariana is a long-awaited daughter in the family. She explores the world around her with great curiosity, reaches for toys, smiles, and delights her parents with every new achievement. But the girl has spina bifida.

The parents learned about the congenital insidious diagnosis only after their daughter's birth. The mother immediately noticed the difference in leg length, but the doctors assured her it was temporary. The mother was not reassured and began to seek answers to her questions. Months of anxiety, consultations, tests, and examinations – and only an MRI put everything in its place. Spina bifida, dermal sinus, tethered spinal cord, short filum terminale. The girl requires complex neurosurgical surgery.

The parents could not find doctors in their homeland of Armenia who could help Ariana. However, the family learned about one of the leading neurosurgeons in the field of complex pediatric spinal cord pathologies, Professor Shimon Rochkind. The surgery was scheduled for the fall of 2026. We responded to help the parents raise funds for their daughter's treatment at Assuta Clinic. But due to Ariana's rapidly deteriorating condition, the parents decided to have the treatment carried out on the earliest possible date in Russia, in the city of Saint Petersburg. They will pay for it themselves.

We sincerely wish for the girl's operation to be successful. Thank you very much to everyone for supporting this important fundraiser. All funds raised for Ariana have been fully directed towards the ward's treatment. Nikita Ureki.