Big problems for little people. Presentation of the project "Big Problems of the "Little Man" in Russian Literature of the 19th-20th Centuries" Health is the Lot of Millionaires

"Children always listen carefully when they are not talking to them."

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is probably rare to find parents who, with the approach of the moment when their child should go to, do not experience anxiety. How will the baby be accepted in the children's team? What kind of relationship will he have with his teacher? Will he get sick often? But most of all the excitement is related to how quickly the child will get used to, adapt to the new environment.

These anxieties and worries have real grounds, since it is known that changes in the social environment affect both the mental and physical health of children. From this point of view, special attention is required at an early age, at which many babies for the first time move from a rather closed family world to a world of wide social contacts.

If a three-year-old child preparing for kindergarten already owns speech, some self-service skills, has a fairly wide experience of communicating with adults and feels the need for children's society, then a one and a half to two-year-old baby is less adapted to separation from relatives, weaker and more vulnerable. It is at this age that adaptation to children's institution takes longer and more difficult, often accompanied by diseases. During this period there is an intense physical development, the maturation of all mental processes.

Changes in lifestyle lead primarily to disruption emotional state baby. The adaptation period is characterized by emotional tension, anxiety or lethargy. The child cries a lot, strives for emotional contact with adults or, on the contrary, irritably refuses it, avoids peers. Thus, his social ties are broken. Emotional distress affects sleep, appetite: the baby refuses to eat, it can cause him nausea; during rest hours, the child continues to cry.

Separation and meeting with relatives sometimes proceed very rapidly: the child does not let his parents go, cries for a long time after their departure, and the arrival again meets with tears. The activity of the baby also changes in relation to the objective world: toys leave him indifferent, interest in the environment decreases. The level of speech activity decreases, lexicon new words are hard to learn.

It is known that the most difficult adaptation takes place in children of the second year of life. All negative manifestations are more pronounced at this age than in babies who came to the nursery after two years, and the recovery period sometimes stretches for two to three months. In the second year of life, the largest number diseases. Research results have shown that relationships with children are the most difficult to restore.

Reasons for poor adaptation

1. poorly developed objective activity

There is a clear pattern between the development of the objective activity of the child and his getting used to the nursery. In babies who are able to act with toys for a long time, in a variety of ways and with concentration, adaptation proceeds relatively easily. Having got to the nursery for the first time, the child quickly responds to the offer of the teacher to play, explores new toys with interest. In cases of difficulty, he tries to overcome them, showing invention and patience. If something does not work out for him, the baby turns to an adult for help, carefully observes his actions, tries to repeat them. Such children like to solve subject problems together with an adult (for example, open a box with a secret or come up with a way to get a far-lying thing).

2. close emotional contact of the child with the mother

If the first months of life are equally friendly to any adult and the simplest signs of attention are enough for him to respond to them with a joyful smile, cooing, stretching out his arms, then from the second half of life, babies begin to clearly distinguish between their own and others. At about 8 months, children experience or displeasure at the sight of strangers. The child avoids them, clings to the mother, sometimes cries. Parting with the mother, which used to be almost painless, suddenly begins to lead the baby into despair, he refuses to communicate with other people, from toys, loses his appetite, sleep.

Parents should take these symptoms seriously. After all, if a child gets used to communicating only with his mother, he will have difficulties in establishing contacts with other people. To make it easier for a child to enter a new social environment, it is useful to encourage his communication with other people. When friends come to you, or you yourself go to visit with a child, try to make other adults not only stroke your child on the head or admire him appearance, but also played a little with him. Expanding the circle of communication at home will educate the child in trusting people, openness, and the ability to get along with them. Getting rid of excessive attachment to relatives will help the baby quickly get used to the new environment.

Of course, the family will have to face considerable difficulties. Yes, adaptation to new living conditions is inevitable: there will be tears, whims and colds, but we must remember that we are able to make this process as painless as possible. Practice shows that the adaptation period proceeds differently and many children quickly get used to the new social environment.

Now check is your child ready for admission to preschool. To do this, answer the following questions:

• What kind of communication (emotional or objective) does the baby prefer?

• How does the child behave when parting with loved ones and meeting after separation?

• What is the level of development of the child's independent play activity (simple manipulations, play actions)?

• Does your child need your help in the game? How does he express the need to cooperate with you?

• How does the child behave in a situation of practical interaction, how does he carry out instructions or requests: put away toys, clothes, bring something, help in some business?

• How does the baby react to the appearance of an unfamiliar adult in his usual environment, does he come up to him if he calls the child? Are there elements of conflict in his behavior?

• How does the child establish contacts with different adults?

• How does the child relate to peers? Does he express joy, attention to them, is he active in the game, how does he react to the initiative of others?

If your baby likes to play with you, calmly endures separation, can occupy himself with some business, asking for help if necessary, willingly fulfills your requests and knows how to perform simple self-service actions, willingly makes contact with strangers, active and friendly towards peers, you can not worry that he will have difficulties when entering a nursery. He is ready for new changes in his life.

At the big festivals, which undoubtedly include Sundance, it is impossible to see all the films or participate in all the events. You have to choose within your capabilities (in this case, I watched only American films), and otherwise rely on press materials, the opinions of others, or the publications of colleagues.

But nothing can replace direct impressions, and it is they that dominate the kaleidoscope offered to the reader today. Most of the films seen at the festival, in my opinion, are vivid examples of national American cinema, which is extremely remote from modern transnational Hollywood.

The first movie I managed to watch was called The Big Illness (directed by Michael Showalter). The picture was shown in the "Premieres" section, and it already had a positive reputation, largely due to the plot. It is based on a genuine love story a Pakistani comedian and an American student, resulting in a clash of cultures.

The main thing in the film was not the director, but the screenwriter and leading actor (he is also the prototype of the hero) Kumail Nanjiani. The idea to tell a melodramatic story in the genre of comic miniatures (after a forced break with her lover, the heroine becomes seriously ill, and the main events unfold while she is in a coma) leads to interesting results: Holly Hunter perfectly plays the role of the rebellious mother of the heroine, but, unfortunately, in a happy ende drowns in pink water.

A tougher and more realistic picture of family relations is offered by Gillian Robespierre in the competition film "Telephone Line" (in the 1990s, when the action takes place, cell phones have not yet become widespread). Two sisters (an experimental teenager and an adult woman on the verge of transition from cohabitation to marriage) and their parents go through a variety of stages in search of happiness, often taking risks and cheating, but in an unsentimental finale they realize that they, no matter what, need each other.

In a completely different vein of outright grotesque, family relationships in the film "Bitch" from midnight screenings. Director and performer of the title role with a symbolic name for the Russian language Marianna Palka creates a portrait of a housewife who has gone to extremes, who, after failed attempt suicide brings the husband, children, sister and other relatives to complete confusion.

Alexander Murs in the competition anti-war tragedy "Yellow Birds" (the so-called American soldiers who were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan) offers a look at the war from the standpoint of soldier mothers losing their sons: someone dies in distant lands, and someone returns morally crippled. The picture made a strong impression and immediately became one of the favorites.

The tape about the American hinterland in the "Premieres" section is called symbolically - "Bound by Dirt" (directed by Dee Rees). It is sustained in the aesthetics of socialist realism, which is especially common today in Western independent cinema. The film is set in the 1930s and 1940s in the racist state of Mississippi. In the center of the story are two families - poor white landowners and blacks who have long lived on this land (it is "dirt").

The experience of the participation of young men from both families in the war in Europe opens their eyes to the existence of another life, where a black man can openly live with a white woman, and she can love him as a liberator. This leads to a tragedy upon arrival at home, followed by an unconvincing happy ending in returning to Europe.

In contrast, on the same day, I was watching a film by Michelle Morgan (apparently the director took the name of a recently deceased French movie star as a pseudonym) "Los Angeles Times" - endless conversations of young people of both sexes about who, where, when and with whom he sleeps (or slept). After the films discussed above, one would like to recall the moral of the old joke: "Oh, mister teacher, I would like your worries." But this trinket is included in the NEXT section ...

On the other hand, the black-and-white drama “Gook” (directed by Justin Chon) is on the same program - this is how immigrants from Southeast Asia are disparagingly called in America. In the early 1990s, at the height of the infamous pogroms in the same Los Angeles, two Korean brothers who were able to establish a small business (they run a shoe store) give an 11-year-old black girl an extra job and suddenly begin to be friends with her, which arouses the envy and suspicion of her father. In the tense atmosphere of the looting of everything in the world, the store cannot be saved - both at the beginning and at the end of the film, the girl performs a ritual dance against the backdrop of a building engulfed in flames. There is an aesthetic difference here.

Social desperation pervades Andrew Dosunmu's Where's Kira? (program "Premieres"). According to the plot, it is somewhat reminiscent of Ken Loach's famous tape "I, Daniel Blake." The heroine is a middle-aged woman who was abandoned by her husband and she has not been able to find a job for two years. After the death of her mother, the lady disguises herself as an old woman and receives her pension. Starring Hollywood star Michelle Pfeiffer, around whom and for whom this picture was made. In contrast to the austerity of Loach's style, Dosunmu succumbed to the temptation of aestheticization, which didn't do the film any good...

The other day, the administration of the Tula region admitted that last year the death rate of newborns in the region increased, and in some areas reached the indicators of underdeveloped countries. An alarming situation in other regions. For example, in the Kaliningrad region, every tenth baby from the maternity hospital goes to the hospital. According to experts, the increase in infant mortality is associated with an increase in the birth rate, insufficient qualifications of obstetricians and the remoteness of many settlements from medical facilities, which is why the ambulance does not have time to arrive on time.

The administration of the Tula region reported that in 2009 infant mortality in the region increased by 2.7% and amounted to 7.6 per thousand live births. In developed countries, less than three out of a thousand births die. In Odoevsky and Dubensky districts, out of a thousand newborns, more than 20 children died - an indicator comparable to such states as Honduras and Egypt.

Alarming data came from the Kaliningrad region. Last year, every tenth newborn baby was hospitalized there - out of 10,843 children, 1,090 were hospitalized. “Obstetricians and gynecologists should pay special attention to the management of childbirth,” Ivan Marchuk, head of the regional perinatal center, commented on the statistics at the regional board of chief physicians. According to him, the majority of hospitalized babies are full-term, which indicates "the shortcomings of monitoring pregnant women in antenatal clinics."

According to the Ministry of Health and Social Development, more than half (56%) of infant deaths are associated with congenital malformations. In second place are CNS lesions due to ischemia (lack of oxygen) during childbirth, in third place is a severe form of respiratory failure in preterm infants. This is followed by diarrhea, pneumonia, sepsis, malaria and HIV/AIDS. According to Doctor of Biological Sciences, expert of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Yevgeny Lilyin, the life and death of children depends on the doctor: “Buying more and more expensive equipment, we pay little attention to the problem of nursing children, that is, staff training. In almost a few cities, doctors can get advanced training and learn how to properly care for a baby.” In a conversation with Mr. Lilyin, he named two more problems: "Weak development of perinatal, that is, prenatal diagnosis," and "in Russia, metabolic disease is much worse than in the West."

The high mortality of children in our country depends not so much on doctors, but on the geographical features of our country, Andrey Akopyan, director of the Republican Center for Human Reproduction of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, explains: “Child mortality in our country is twice as high as in Europe, since Russia is a heterogeneous country of all possible, it has a very large territory, so the living conditions in the country are polar.”

The chief obstetrician-gynecologist of the Yaroslavl region, Maxim Mozgot, confirmed Andrey Akopyan’s words about the remoteness of some settlements, telling a case from his own experience: “A few years ago, a rural lady had a very difficult birth, so because of the lack of communications, an ambulance car pulled by a tractor. In his opinion, the responsibility for the health of newborn children lies not so much with doctors as with the parents themselves: “If a woman undermines her health with alcohol and cigarettes, then what does she want to demand from a doctor?”

At the end of the summer, the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Tatyana Golikova, stated that over the past 4 years, infant and maternal mortality in Russia has been declining: “Over the past period of time, that is, in 2005-2009, the birth rate in Russian Federation increased by 21.6%, we reduced the infant mortality rate by 26.4%, and the maternal mortality rate by 13.4%. However, according to the minister, "complacency is still far away."

However, complacency is far from even in more prosperous countries. Germany was recently shocked by the death of three babies in a Mainz clinic, reports Novye Izvestia correspondent Adel Kalinichenko. The tragedy, according to German doctors, can hardly be called natural. According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, the risk of getting a nosocomial infection in Germany is 2–2.5 times lower than even in Sweden and Greece. In German hospitals, as a rule, it is immaculately clean: the linen is snow-white, the rooms are ventilated and washed several times a day. There are two or three people in the wards, a maximum of four people.

According to experts, a fatal accident occurred: the bottle burst, and it was impossible to notice a microscopic crack. In the pharmacy-laboratory of the clinic, the nutrient mixture was prepared for each small patient individually. The laboratory is a sterile room, the air is constantly filtered there, the rubber gloves in which laboratory assistants work are changed every half an hour. However, other clinics have already withdrawn from their pharmacies those components of the formula that were used in the Mainz clinic.

About 9 million children under the age of five die every year in the world. For the period 1960–1990. child mortality in developing regions has been halved to one child death in 10 children. The infant mortality rate (IMR), the number of deaths of children under the age of one year per 1,000 live births, is often used as a comparison of the level of development of countries and indicates the development of the health system.

For the first half of 2010, according to the UN, the most low level Infant mortality is registered in Singapore, where there are 2.31 deaths per 1,000 births. They are followed by Bermuda (2.46 deaths), Sweden (2.75) and Japan (2.79). The most disadvantaged countries are Afghanistan (151.95), Sierra Leone (154.43) and Angola (180.21). Russia in this list takes 73rd place (10.56). However, according to Rosstat, children in our country die one and a half times less - 6.7 per thousand.

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People can be undersized for various reasons: with congenital pathologies of the adrenal glands and gonads, from a deficiency of growth hormone, a lack of protein food in the first years of life, and even from a lack of maternal affection in early age.

Today in Temirtau there are 25 children and 11 adolescents diagnosed with nanism, that is, with abnormal growth retardation. Four children need injections of growth hormone, the cost of which, according to some sources, reaches two million tenge. According to city endocrinologists, dwarf children have no particular problems: the state provides them with free medicines and allocates disability benefits.

But is it really so easy for "little children" and their parents?

Miracle

Vita Limonov is already six, but his biological age does not exceed two or three years. The boy is growing smart: he instantly remembers rhymes, studies the primer on his own, loves to color pictures with pencils, play cars. Vitya, according to his mother Elena, is very "fighting": he is naughty, bullying, almost not for him - he gets into a fight, strives to quarrel, fights for leadership. All in all, normal child. The fact that he is different from everyone, the parents did not immediately understand.

At the time of Vitya's birth, we already had two children - daughter Nadia and son Sergey, - says Elena Viktorovna, - I could not leave the kids - my husband was constantly working. Therefore, we decided to leave the newborn alone for treatment, eleven times up to a year, tiny Vitya lay in the hospital without me. Rarely seeing my son, I did not notice delays in his development. The doctors did not immediately "reveal the cards", we learned about the causes of the disease later. Cerebral palsy (infantile cerebral palsy), heart threshold, intracranial pressure - this was the verdict of doctors. They said that my son would not survive, the maximum that he was allowed was five years. At the age of four, Vitya stood on his feet, and then he ran hopping, a little later, he demonstrated an impeccable memory and ear for music. Doctors shrugged - they say, a miracle, and nothing more!

But a big miracle did not happen: it turned out that the boy had stopped growing for a long time. Nanism (short stature), as defined by the Aesculapius, is due to the fact that the central nervous system Viti does not produce growth hormone on its own. The child was prescribed treatment, injections that replace natural growth hormone, as part of a guaranteed free medical care paid by the republican treasury.

Is health the lot of millionaires?

This foreign drug is a discovery in medicine, says Svetlana Kirillova, an endocrinologist at Polyclinic No. 4. - Without an injection, children whose pituitary gland cannot produce growth hormone are deprived of the opportunity to develop normally and adapt in society. They need it not only in order to achieve the desired growth, but also in order to be healthy, full. However, today the state cannot assume the cost of lifelong treatment of such patients - it is too expensive, the cost of one package of the drug is measured in thousands of dollars. Therefore, after these children at the age of 25-28 will close the "growth zones", that is, the ossification of the cartilage, and, accordingly, the desired height will be established, they will no longer be injected with the hormone. Parents themselves are unlikely to "pull" the payment for the injections that their midget children need in adulthood to maintain the necessary balance in the body.

The absence of growth hormone in human blood means a stop in the growth of hair and nails, a metabolic disorder. It turns out that even grown "dwarfs", not receiving growth hormone from the outside, are doomed to an unhealthy existence. Doctors are not yet talking about it out loud - and who knows, maybe, after coming out of the crisis, there will be money in the country to provide for them for the rest of their lives. necessary drugs midgets with growth hormone deficiency. With such requests, specialists from health care have repeatedly turned to the government of the republic.

These children have yet to grow and grow, why bother parents so early, - says the endocrinologist. - Now our main task is to make undersized guys socially adapted so that they are not infringed, do not feel “out of their element”, and for this it is important to achieve sufficient growth.

Parents really do not know about the need for lifelong treatment. Elena Limonova, the mother of six-year-old Vitya, was told how they cut her off: "The child will catch up with growth - and then he will not need medicines." What is it - the heartlessness of doctors or their fear of panic and protest of moms and dads if they find out that injections are a prerequisite for healthy life their children?

Why pay twice?

Kirill Andreev's medical card says "Born with a height of 51 centimeters." But you can’t fool the boy’s mother - she knows for sure that the baby at birth did not exceed forty centimeters. According to Venus, Kirill's mother, he looked like a tiny baby. When the child went to kindergarten, parents did not notice his growth retardation, and with his studies at school, his ordeals in hospitals began - Kirill was registered with the city endocrinologist. The doctor determined: "deficiency of natural growth hormone."

Until recently, I thought that the reason was heredity, - says Venera Flyurovna, - Cyril's father is also small in stature. For the past five years, Kiryukha has been going to the endocrinology department of the regional children's clinic once a year for an examination. Nanism deprived the child of childhood - in addition to injections of growth hormone, doctors prescribed a strict diet: do not eat spicy, salty, sweet, sour, baked, fried, it is also forbidden to walk in the sun, watch TV, play at the computer. Kirieshki, chips, chupa-chups - everything that kids love, according to doctors, is generally "poison" for undersized children. But thanks to such a "strict regime" improvements have become noticeable - now the son's biological age is only two years behind the passport one.

Twelve-year-old Kirill, a shy and very homely boy, is not only an exemplary good boy, but also an unusually talented child: he paints pictures, sculpts figures - he has been studying at an art school for a long time. Cyril does not experience an inferiority complex, perhaps because there are no peers and adults in his environment who would treat the boy’s small stature as a disadvantage. However, short stature in its own way prevents Cyril from being like others.

We always have conflict situations with the head of physical education, - says Venera Flyurovna. - The teacher does not revise the standards for little Cyril, which is a consequence of his bad grades in this discipline. Well, how, tell me, can he jump from a place over a stick that is at the level of his shoulders? The son's classmates easily jump over the same beam, and it is not surprising - it falls to their waist. That's what I said to the physical education teacher - stop torturing the child, he is not preparing for the Olympic champions, he will become a great artist.

In addition to the fact that children with growth hormone deficiency receive free expensive injections purchased abroad at the expense of the republican budget, children with disabilities receive special benefits from the state. However, just the other day, Kirill Andreev's mother was informed that her child was "removed" from disability.

After the next treatment in the regional hospital, the doctors did not confirm Kirill's disability, - says Venera Flyurovna, motivating this decision by improvements in her son's health - they say he is on the mend, began to grow. The doctor who sees the boy in the Karaganda clinic said that the state is already paying you for an expensive injection of growth hormone, disability benefits are already too much.

Dwarfs are ordinary people

Svetlana Kirillova shows her office. The most important part of it is the wall, decorated with children's drawings. These are drawings of Lilliputians, among them are those made by Kirill Andreev. I must say, the paintings are magnificent, so lively, story-driven, reflecting the vivid perception of the world of their creators. Even from these album sheets, painted with watercolors, one can say that undersized children are absolutely no different from children with normal growth.

Growth is a harmonious physical and psychomotor development of the body, depending on hereditary, climatic, nutritional conditions and functional characteristics of the endocrine glands, - explains the endocrinologist, - that is, growth also depends on whether the child is loved or not, how the child is fed - deficiency growth may be associated with protein deficiency. It often happens that sick children from dysfunctional families, whom parents are in no hurry to take away from the hospital, begin to increase in height, and, returning home, freeze. This can be explained precisely by the presence of care and attention to these children on the part of the medical staff and proper diet nutrition. Growth depends on many factors, for example, on the work of the adrenal glands, gonads, kidneys, growth retardation can also be associated with hereditary short stature, congenital heart disease, severe liver dysfunction, and improper formation of the skeletal system at an early age. But the most dangerous cause of short stature in children is the absolute deficiency of growth hormone in the body. This hormone is vital for a person, like insulin for diabetics, and if it is not there, caress, do not caress the baby, he will still remain a dwarf.

If you do not inject the hormone, children with its deficiency will not grow under any circumstances. However, such midgets have a preserved intellect, are amenable to training and education, their body develops proportionally, in adulthood they look like beautiful pupae with a thin voice, which sometimes acquires an "electronic" shade due to the small size of the vocal cords.

Short stature is determined in the first year of life, - says Svetlana Albertovna. - Monthly growth measurements during this period can allow you to monitor the development of the baby. The biological age of a child, which in Lilliputians lags behind the passport one, can be identified using an X-ray of the hand. Up to seven years, the number of bones in the fold of the hand should be equal to the age of the child, for example, a five-year-old person has five such bones. At a later age, the same picture allows the doctor to see whether the so-called "growth zones" are closed in a child or adolescent, in other words, whether the cartilage has become ossified. If ossification has already occurred, further human growth is impossible.

Children whose parents are short, that is, with a hereditary predisposition to nanism, are almost impossible to cure. Simply because the growth of the child, which is expected as a result of treatment, directly depends on the growth of his mother and father. The growth of a mature girl (or boy) is equal to the sum of the height of the parents, divided by two and minus (or plus) five centimeters.

25 children and 11 adolescents in Temirtau are sick with dwarfism for various reasons, four children with growth hormone deficiency receive replacement therapy. These figures, endocrinologists are sure, are not at all abnormal, it cannot be said that there is an epidemic of dwarfism in the city. All patients undergo the necessary treatment, in most cases children grow up to the desired parameters.

Therefore, according to doctors, it is a sin for parents of Lilliputians to complain - in serious cases, the state takes care of the healing, and most importantly, the disease is curable, you just need to hope for success.

A small actor with great talent, Verne Troyer, postponed preparations for a wedding scheduled for the fall with a former fashion model, asking him to give him time to think things through. And there is something to think about: after all, the famous actor barely reaches his chosen one to the waist, and even then if he stands on tiptoe.
A unique Hollywood wedding, unusual even by the extravagant standards of the world of celluloid dreams, can be upset. American actor Verne Troyer, known to millions of moviegoers under the name of Mini Me, a character from popular parody films about secret agent Austin Powers, announced his engagement to 29-year-old Genevieve Gallen in June and the upcoming wedding in November, which caused an unprecedented explosion of interest as to himself and to his future wife. And this interest is quite understandable: after all, the actor’s height is only 82 cm, while his bride is almost a meter taller - 175 cm. Recently, the stately blonde has been giving private yoga lessons, and before that she worked as a fashion model.
Mr. Troyer, despite his small stature, has achieved considerable success in his field. In addition to playing Mini Me in two films about Austin Powers, he also starred in the films Harry Potter and philosopher's Stone and "Men in Black", becoming the most successful dwarf actor in Hollywood: for "Harry Potter" he received $ 317 million, for "Men in Black" - $ 250 million, and for both films "Austin Powers" - $ 420 million.
Having acquired the status of a full-fledged Hollywood star, Verne Troyer acquired all the attributes corresponding to his high position. He has bodyguards and a black Mercedes with tinted windows. In addition, a lot of girls always hover around him, attracted by his fame and money, who are absolutely not embarrassed by his physical data. By the way, many suspect the current bride of Vern Troyer of selfish motives, hinting that with her union with the actor she wants to make a name for herself, and at the same time acquire a fortune.
To this, Mrs. Gallen firmly declares that she has always been an independent woman and achieved everything herself, so she does not need someone else's glory. Mr. Troyer, according to the bride, she "fell in love not for money or fame, but for his big heart, which none of the actors of ordinary height that she had to deal with in her life has."
However, not everyone is ready to take her word for it. The miniature friends of Vern Troyer were especially suspicious of the tall girl. And it was difficult for others to imagine them together, because of which Mrs. Gallen lost quite a lot of her own friends.
The current difficulties are far from the first in two years of their close relationship. Earlier this year, the fashion model, perhaps tired of the extravagant relationship, turned her attention to a stripper from a nightclub. True, then Mrs. Gallen assured that she had nothing with this man, but few people could be convinced by her words.
In any case, Verne Troyer did not believe her. Having learned about the betrayal of his beloved, the inconsolable dwarf, who had long suffered from a tendency to alcoholism, went into a binge. In this deplorable state, he left Los Angeles for New York, where he was later seen in a nightclub drunk dancing on stage with a stripper. In the end, the actor drank to the point that he had to resort to the help of an oxygen breathing apparatus.
However, soon the life of an unusual love couple began to gradually improve: the yoga instructor returned to the actor, and he underwent a course of treatment for drunkenness. Even previously irreconcilable friends changed their attitude towards his matrimonial plans and decided that marriage - even to a tall woman - would help him overcome his illness.
But when things began to approach the wedding, Mr. Troyer panicked and asked the bride to temporarily suspend their relationship in order to think things through. “We were simply shocked by the huge attention that our engagement caused,” Mrs. Gallen explained the behavior of her fiancé. “All this pressure forced him to back down.”
Long before the upcoming wedding, the actor invited Genevieve Gallen to live together. However, it turned out that not only human gossip, but also purely technical problems stand in the way of lovers.
The fact is that the house where Vern Troyer lives was specially built with the expectation of its dimensions. And if the actor wants to move to another room, then everything will have to change in it: order special furniture and bathroom equipment, rearrange switches, etc. A person less than a meter tall cannot just take and settle in another house, like ordinary people. He needs to do everything to order, otherwise he will not feel comfortable in his own home.
“This is a very difficult time for me,” says Genevieve Gallen, who does not give up hope of becoming Mrs. Troyer this year. “But, as Verne said, after me he will never be able to love another woman. And I believe him.”
NIKITA B-PROKUNIN