I consider it my duty to share my experience in the rehabilitation center “Evexia” with you and to tell everyone how doctors and
staff of this center helped me.
It so happened that in R
I consider it my duty to share my experience in the rehabilitation center “Evexia” with you and to tell everyone how doctors and
staff of this center helped me.
It so happened that in Russia in 2012, I faced a number of health issues after receiving
domestically medical care without much success. I had a tumor and a domestic doctor suggested me to remove the tumor. The surgery was
unsuccessful, i was in coma nearly a month, causing me paralysis. I became disabled and in order to support my children, I was forced to
fully learn the meaning of the word “Rehabilitation”. Before this incident, I was the owner of a large company and directed a
successful business. I was suffering because my physical condition did not allow me to work and to be an independent man at the age of
34. I lost my business and therefore the ability to pay for my recovery treatment- I could not visit the Evexia center back then, which
I regret very much- . In December 2013 I came to Evexia center and I followed a 6 weeks rehabilitation program after 2 years of
unsuccessful rehabilitation in Russia (I am very sad to voice it, but it is the bitter truth). Russia has a similar rehabilitation
center "Three Sisters", where I learned to walk very soon after the disaster, but it is not cheaper than the Evexia centre and it is
situated in the woods, out of the windows, you cannot see the beautiful Mount Olympus.
To begin with, the main thing that I liked
most– the treatment outcome- and not the kind of view out of the windows, although I am pretty sure that one thing is related to
another. The first feeling that you get from the environment in the Evexia center is that "You can make it!" Every eye of a doctor,
every room, every hour spent in Evexia centre, every word and movement, a friendly touch of a hand shared with an employee, is filled
with as a new vessel for your health. All actions are designed and verified by respective protocols. The swimming pool, the fitness
equipment, the skillful caring hands, the professional programs. I saw also the same in the center "Three Sisters" in Russia, but most
likely the period for my recovery there was still too early. In the center of "Three Sisters" I started to walk without support, in the
Evexia center I started to run in the pool and make fine movements with my fingers and hands. Those who know what hemiparesis and
spasticity is, will understand me. These two days, when I was able again to play football, even though on a video game, and build a
pyramid, I wrote in my diary - 29 November and 9 December 2013.
Football and pyramid is certainly a great outcome after two years
of immobility. But the most important result was that back in Russia, I did not just achieve to have a normal family, but also returned
back to work, back to an interesting and independent life. After two years of disability , classified as group 1, I was not only
reappointed in the civil service, in a position of full of responsibilities- with hundreds of subordinate staff, but also was assigned
to make distant trips, a three times over the summer visit of the border regions of Russia, where even people without any restrictions
dare not to go. And this is of course due to the center Evexia, Greece.
In fact, besides the picturesque view of mount Olympus I,
thanks to the human centered care in the Evexia center, was able to visit the Russian monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Athos mountain
and several cities in Greece, to regain confidence in myself and feel again as a valuable member of the society.
I would like to
thank once again the director of the center and his assistant Svetlana. I was treated by the doctor Kandilakis. I would also like to
express many thanks to him and to all those who took part in my recovery, the most helpful and friendly team - Yannis, Maria, Elena
x3, George, Sarrandis, Nikos, Veronica and many others.
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Username: | Maxim |
Age: | 35-44 |
Location: | Moscow, Russia |
Gender: | male |
Operation or treatment: | Rehabilitation |
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