To breathe for son. 6

"My state is of moderate severity. I wake up and labor for breath. I follow all the recommendations – doing inhalations, taking medicines, doing exercises. I feel a bit better by the evening. But then the night comes again.” Aliona has been fighting the congenital disease, cystic fibrosis, all of her life. You can live with it, but you need to have a great amount of patience, willpower, strength, and… money. Daily complex therapy and regular courses of IV antibacterial therapy are a must.

"The next hospitalization is in April. If I let it slide, my state will aggravate severe condition and it will be even harder and… more expensive to pull out of it". But how can you manage it all when you have two severely ill persons in the family? Aliona has been sick since her childhood, and a few years ago her mom has succumbed to a serious illness. This spring is particularly hard – the small money they have has to be split between the three of them, be it for Aliona’s medicines, for her mom’s treatment, or for the needs of Alyona’s 5-year old son Vanya. How can you choose between these three?

Cystic fibrosis is an incurable disease caused by DNA mutation and it stays with you for life. However, with timely complex treatment, you can keep it in check and significantly delay your body deterioration. Aliona is 30 years old which is quite an advanced age for most of her fellow sufferers – only very few of her peers have been able to reach this threshold. But the young woman is not about to give up – she has a purpose in life. She needs to support her mom. Another dream on the horizon is to take her son to the 1st grade of school, watch him do his homework, listen to him as he tells her of his events at school… Such simple things, yet, so costly for one family.

With your help, we have been supporting Aliona for 4 years by now. It was made possible thanks to hundreds of people who didn’t stay indifferent but made a pause for a moment in order to help. The young woman’s current need is to pay the cost of antibiotics for her in-patient therapy course. Let us help her now.

Earlier at the UBB, we already collected funds for Olena. You can see the previous projects by following the link.

Name: Tara Olena, 03.07.1987

City: Uzhorod

Diagnosis: cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency, chronic bronchitis with obstructive component, exacerbation stage, pneumofibrosis, multiple bronchiectases, cholestatic hepatitis, gallbladder hypoplasia, cholelithiasis, impaired glucose tolerance, bilateral inguinal hernia