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The Eching neighborhood charity and the Vaniglia ice cream parlor collected around 2,000 euros for little Finni, who is in a vegetative state after a superinfection.
Eching – It has now been around three months since the lives of the Zettel family from the Rosenheim district changed dramatically – and nothing was the same anymore: the youngest of Viktoria and Mike Zettel’s three sons, seven-year-old Finn, was seriously ill in January. A flu-like infection escalated and turned out to be a superinfection with a combination of pneumonia, influenza and streptococci, in which Finn had to be resuscitated in the hospital after cardiac and respiratory arrest. Since this tragic event, which also triggered massive epilepsy, the boy has now been in a rehabilitation clinic in a vegetative state-like state after intensive care and an artificial coma.
Seven-year-old Finni “will never be the same again”
“He will never be the same again,” says his mother about her son’s fate. For his entire family, including his two older brothers Paul, who plays football for SV Heimstetten in the neighboring district of Munich, and Lukas, the state of health and the future of Finni, as everyone calls him, is an extreme burden.
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Through the initiative of Viktoria Zettel’s close friend Dinka Pralas-Fischer, who is active in the Echinger Neighborhood Help Center, the local non-profit association became aware of the exceptional situation of the family of five and very quickly decided to support them: “To be able to get back to life with Finni’s fight “We are helping to at least somewhat alleviate the financial challenges of the tragedy,” the NBH team agreed – and donated the proceeds from the two clothing and large parts bazaars that had just been held. “We rounded the amount up to 1,000 euros,” explained Bettina Noack, the bazaar organizer, when the check was recently handed over. And further: “It is a confirmation for our many volunteers when you know exactly who is benefiting from the effort: This is a motivation for all of us to help the neighbors.”
The family’s house now has to be converted to make it handicapped accessible
Since Finn is currently (and probably in the future) in a wheelchair, a larger car has to be purchased and the home on the first floor, which the family moved into just last year in a village near Feldkirchen-Westerham (Rosenheim district), has to be converted to make it wheelchair accessible be made barrier-free accessible. “We are very grateful,” says mother Viktoria Zettel: “This support cannot be taken for granted.” Her personal thanks go not only to the neighborhood help, but also to Alessandro Libero, owner of the Italian ice cream parlor Vaniglia, who also supported his fundraising initiative with the help of his Eching customers was able to raise almost 800 euros.
Good to know: If you would like to help the Zettel family and little Finni, you can do so via the Eching neighborhood help center: www.nbh-eching.de.