Run for the roses to breathe! Mocherynuk Olga and Daria

That is how my life turned out. At first, I gave birth to Dasha, a wonderful girl with cystic fibrosis and later I started my part-time job at the Happy Child Foundation. My daughter has a rare genetic disease – cystic fibrosis. This diagnosis did not bring fear to our family, it rather gave us more strength and motivation to fight with the disease.Dasha is a whole flow of energy and a happy little puppy: she never has time to lie down and suffer, cry or complain why the life is so unjust. Starting her day at 6 a.m. with outdoor physical exercises, training at the wall bar for the whole day and finishing her day late in the evening riding a bike or a scooter after doing gymnastics – that is her lifestyle. She goes to school and gymnastics as other children and loves traveling and going for long walks.

My daughter often asks me how things are going at work and feels very sorry for the sick children I tell her about. That is how it works in our family – we do not try to make things look better than they are. Dasha is already 8 years old. She is a big smart girl, she already realizes how much freedom her inhaler gives her and can’t help asking: “What about other children with the same diagnosis?” We both train a lot and will run to help children with cystic fibrosis “break free” from the electrical outlet. My goal is to raise money to purchase two chamber inhalers – UAH 9,400. Dasha believes that her example will inspire other children.
Life of people with cystic fibrosis is a life under a strict schedule: taking medicines, inhaling, inspiratory and physical training. The medicines could be taken along. A convenient time and place for training could be arranged. But what could be done with an outlet for inhaler? It is impossible to strip a child of walk, classes and tours by "binding" them to an outlet under the schedule. Children with cystic fibrosis spend a considerable part of their life at hospital enough as it is, as well as undergoing daily tiring treatments. An OMRON portable inhaler could be a solution; it is functional, compact and noiseless. Due to this project of Happy Child foundation, children with cystic fibrosis will have an opportunity to undergo the timely treatment in a train, forest, at school or at somebody's house to help maximally support their health and extend their life.