Five-year-old girl tethered to huge ventilator all her life finally free after op
- 5 years ago
This is the amazing moment a five-year-old girl who has spent her entire life tethered to a huge ventilator runs freely after undergoing surgery to help her breathe on her own.
Diana Galleno suffers from congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a rare condition affecting the autonomic nervous system which controls breathing.
As a result the little girl has been attached to a bulky 15lb ventilator - a machine to help her breathe which resembles a vacuum cleaner - since she was a week old.
Everywhere she went the device went too, and her parents Diana Belmont, 36, and dad Fernando Galleno, 38, were constantly chasing after her carrying it.
Diana Galleno suffers from congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), a rare condition affecting the autonomic nervous system which controls breathing.
As a result the little girl has been attached to a bulky 15lb ventilator - a machine to help her breathe which resembles a vacuum cleaner - since she was a week old.
Everywhere she went the device went too, and her parents Diana Belmont, 36, and dad Fernando Galleno, 38, were constantly chasing after her carrying it.