Mahendra Ahirwar a Indian Boy Born With ‘Upside Down Head’ Tragically Dies
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A 13-year-old boy with a rare condition causing his head to sit at a ninety degree angle has died less than a year after he had life-changing surgery to fix it.
Mahendra Ahirwar a 13 year old Indian teen born with his head hanging at a 180 degree angle has passed eight months after having corrective surgery.
The Madhya Pradesh teenager’s death over the weekend comes after being diagnosed with a rare condition called congenital myopathy which made his muscles in his neck so weak that his head would hang.
However, in order to justify the fact that there are few good people in the world as well, a ray of light was shone on Mahesh and his family. A kind lady called Julie Jones, decided to help the little boy after coming across his tragic story.
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A mother of two from Liverpool, when found about the condition of Mahendra decided to help by means of using a crowd funding website. She created an account which went on to raise £12,000 within 28 days of the page being set up.
This small initiative taken by Jones went on to become the greatest source of happiness for Mahendra as the amount was good enough to pay for Mahendra’s surgery.
When Julie Jones finally met Mahesh and his family, her kind action was heartily appreciated by Mahendra’s mother who happened to cry when they first came face to face. The encounter happened at the hospital where Mahendra was getting ready for his surgery.
Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan successfully completed the surgery in the February of 2016. In order to straighten the boy’s neck a metal plate was fit in his neck after extracting his neck’s disks and substituting them with bone draft from his pelvis.
His parents said that, Dr Krishnan gave him a new life. He gave my son a new vision, a new way to see the world. But in the end it was for a very short time. He enjoyed his new life for just eight months. I wish he could have lived longer to see more.
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