Granny with many children saves her grandson

When Sergii was three years old, his mother died of a brain tumor. And now this little boy has to fight for his life because he has a brain tumor too. His granny who is his legal guardian stays with him at the Department of Neurosurgery. Also, she brings up Sergiy’s two elder sisters on her own. The family has barely enough money to live on and it is just impossible for them to buy all the necessary medical materials for a surgery that is not available in the hospital.

The boy’s story reminds of a terrible TV series. Sergiy’s mother got pregnant when she was treated for an oncology disease. The grandmother helped to take care of the boy from the first day of his life. She struggled to devote herself to her seriously ill daughter and to her little son at once. When Sergii’s mother died, the boy had to spend some time at the orphanage until his grandmother gained a legal custody of him. The woman was fighting for her daughter’s life for a long time and then she had to fight for her grandson’s life. She begs not to leave them alone in such a hard situation!

Name: Ihnatev Serhii, 14.03.2011

City: Zhorzhivka village, Poltava region

Diagnosis: brain tumor