Helping children Day by day

🥺Good day everyone☀️, I am the mother of Oliviya Mikhailovskaya. My girl turned 8 years old on January 07, 24🎀. And literally two weeks later we knew about something terrible... Oliviya was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia🩸😱. We found this out in Turkey (Istanbul). At that moment my heart sank from what I heard💔. We were forced to come to Istanbul for an examination, 

Nothing bothered us for a month, we take a full CheckUp at the local clinic and get satisfactory tests, but a week later the cough comes back. 

On January 30, 24 we take a full blood count (extended) and the blood counts are critical, we come to the hematology department of the 2nd children's city hospital, but they tell us that they will admit us only in 3-5 days, as we need to treat the cough. (and this is with zero blood counts). 

In a panic, worrying about the life of the child, within a few hours (February 01, 2024) we decide to fly to the Istanbul Acibaden Altunizade clinic, where there is a strong pediatrics department, in order to fully examine the child and find the cause of frequent colds. 

And already on February 02, 24, after all the tests and a spinal tap, we were diagnosed. Leukemia. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 85% damage. (Blood cancer) 

We were forced to stay in the Istanbul clinic, as the blood counts dropped to the lowest level and the flight was impossible, any virus is fatal. 

Also, having talked with the doctors, we realized that treatment was needed immediately, there is a strong professor for our diagnosis. After my question, if there is sens in such a difficult treatment for a child, because it is both pain and fear ... or maybe it is better to spend the last months at home and devote them to my daughter. Tears simply flowed. But they gave an unambiguous answer that it is treatable and they give 93% recovery and remission to children. We made a decision and stayed. But the clinic presented a very large bill 14500$. For us, such a sum is unaffordable. My daughter is terminally ill, cancer is burning her. I beg you, help me save my daughter.😭🙏🏻🆘 

🆘 Good afternoon everyone☀️. My name is Anastasia Zhzhonova, I am the mother of my handsome son Artem👼🏻. My baby was born a healthy and strong boy🥹, he grew, as they say, by leaps and bounds. But after 7 years, something terrible happened... initially my son had purulent tonsillitis, we cured it. But later he developed a very high temperature that lasted for 3 days, loss of consciousness. We immediately took all the tests and, unfortunately, the white blood cells dropped🥺. Soon my son was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. My life flashed before my eyes, my heart was about to jump out of my chest. I don’t know how else to describe this feeling of fear and acceptance. Artem was admitted to the hospital for examination, his health has only worsened. Every day I begged to be admitted to hospital with him, to which I was refused. I had to just observe and pray to God for help. The worst thing is when my son lies there, his cheeks are scarlet, he is all wet and does not react to anything. In the end, when we were told that we could be admitted to hospital with a child for a fee, I immediately packed my things and went there.  

At that moment, Artem felt very bad, his blood counts dropped to zero. In an emergency, Artem was taken to intensive care, where they gave him a blood transfusion, a platelet transfusion, endless injections, and Bioven, which is useful for immunoglobulin. My baby has been injected for days. On Monday, June 24, 2024, we were transferred to the Central Medical and Radiology Center in Ust-Kamenogorsk, they took my child away for an emergency puncture, which was done to the baby without anesthesia or painkillers into the chest. I can’t forget how Artem screamed in pain, asking for help with hysterics. The doctors simply pushed me out and told me to wait. Later they told me that they couldn’t do the test because the blood had clotted! My baby was in pain, and they couldn’t... The next day, they took a bone marrow puncture from the hip bone, thank God under anesthesia, after lunch we heard the following: Artem has blood cancer. I immediately began to study the information, talk to mothers of similarly sick children, and everyone claims that treatment is better abroad. So I came across a clinic in Turkey, where we already discussed our treatment and we were told that there is a 93% chance that Artem would go into remission. Now the cost of treatment is 16000$. The cost of life is very large, but I believe that together we can save a life. Every small donation gives the opportunity to be healthy. Please help me save my baby.🙏🏻⚠️🆘 

Good day everyone☀️. I am the mother of my beautiful and beloved girl Kaleriya. My girl was born a healthy, smart, inquisitive girl, until cancer appeared in her life😞. 

Initially, I began to notice some changes and the emplacement of her eye, it seemed to be squinting🥺. Then it began to shine in the light like a cat's. Without thinking twice, I made an appointment with an ophthalmologist, where we were given the final conclusion: Retinoblastoma stage 2, group D, and we were sent to another hospital for chemotherapy at the Federal State Budgetary Institution N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of Russia. After hearing and seeing all this, my body seemed to lose its pulse, a cold ran down my back and there was a ringing in my ears. The only thoughts were how this could have happened to my girl. 

In Moscow, we underwent three courses of chemotherapy with the drugs etoposide, carboplatin, vincristine, two inotropic injections with melphalan. Unfortunately, the doctors did not say what and how they would do next, they said that they would try to save life and the organ, but nothing about vision. 

As a mother, I could not accept this and went to the Jules Gonin Hospital in Switzerland. After looking at the scans from the retinal camera, the doctors said that Lerochka has good visual potential and keeping the right tactics, it is possible to preserve her vision. Since December 1, 2023, we have been receiving treatment in Switzerland. During our first examinations at the hospital, Lerochka was given laser treatment. Everything was stable for several months, but in May 2024 there was a relapse. We fought the relapse for 3 months and in August 2024 we finally heard "Health condition is stable". But unfortunately, it did not last long ... During a routine examination in September, Lerochka was again diagnosed with a relapse, and it is more serious than the last time. The relapse itself is small, but within a month it managed to seed the vitreous body. Lerochka was immediately given treatment - two types of thermotherapy (laser) and an injection into the eye with a chemotherapy drug. Previously, we flew for treatment every 4 weeks, but now, due to the latest relapse, they have reduced the intervals between examinations to 2.5 weeks.  

Now the clinic has presented us with an invoice in the amount of 14500$.  

The amount to raise is very large, our family is contributing with all possible efforts. But we will not be able to raise quickly  certain amount. We tearfully ask all kind people to help us save our only daughter. 

🆘 ❕Diagnosis Duchenne muscular dystrophy is insidious and it has its own clear plan to destroy the child. 

THAT'S WHY I SCREAM EVERY DAY, I ASK, I BEG - NO TIME LEFT. 

🧬Now he is 8 years old and the disease is persistently sending its greetings, on the video I showed the key symptoms that Vityusha unfortunately already has: 

The calf muscles are enlarged - and this is already the replacement of muscles with fatty tissue 

Duck-footed gait - it seems as if he is waddling + walking on tiptoes

Hyperlardosis - you can see in the video how Vityusha's back is strongly arched. 

Inability to run and jump - yesterday we played catch up with Vitya, this is the speed of an ordinary child  who is just walking, but he cannot jump at all. 

Falling for no reason at all - the heart just contracts, it is uncontrollable. Imagine how you constantly fall from your height onto your feet and butt. It hurts😭 

Stairs - he can only climb up using the Govers maneuver: leaning his hands on his feet, he cannot get up from his left leg on his own now.  

And the daily - "Mom, I'm tired" - this is also an insidious Duchenne, manifested by rapid fatigue. 

😭ALL THIS COMES FROM MUSCLE WEAKNESS. DUCHENNES MYODYSTROPHY - the #1 killer of boys.  is a chance to stop everything❕ 

And I want to tell you what Vityusha can't do or what he is deprived of when the diagnosis is a huge enemy... 

He CAN'T squat like everyone else and look at bugs and spiders with children, for example, or just collect mosaics on the floor. 

When he sees the stairs, I see horror in his eyes, because it is VERY HARD to climb, this is clearly visible in one of the latest videos. 

He CAN’T climb in and out of a car on his own, the risk of falling out of it is very high. 

Vitya CAN’T fully live the life of an ordinary child now, who needs to be everywhere and always, to be naughty,  to try new things, he is only 8 years old, now is the time to enjoy the life in full.  

In fact, it is very hard to watch, especially on some playground, when your child simply CANNOT climb onto a swing on his own, without the help of an adult😭 

And he is only 8... and what next? And then, if we do not find help among all of you and do not raise these 2500000$ for a CHANCE to live a full life - it will only get worse. Then only a wheelchair and a lying position with a bunch of devices that support the heart and breathing. And then end... 

I ask you for help, help close the fundraiser as quickly as possible❕🆘