Childhood in a hospital ward

Vlada was a welcome child in the Fedorchenko family. The mother's pregnancy went well, but when the girl was born, it was discovered that the baby had intrauterine pneumonia. Vlada spent the first two months of her life in the intensive care unit. The girl grew up as a weak and sickly child and was often hospitalized.

At the age of 6, Vlada's hemoglobin dropped sharply. The girl was taken by ambulance to Donetsk for a blood transfusion. The diagnosis of Chronic Renal Failure sounded like a death sentence for her mother. Her girl needs a kidney transplant.

Endless operations began to install a fistula for hemodialysis. Mom and daughter spent more than a year in Donetsk hospital. The war began, and Vlad was transferred to the regional hospital in the city of Kharkov. She stayed in Kharkov for another year and a half.

Vlada has very thin veins, and the sixth fistula in turn "stalled" again. Doctors in Kharkov made a helpless gesture. In the end, the girl was sent to Kiev, to Okhmatdet. The child has been in the toxicology department of Okhmatdet for six years already. Vlada constantly needs hemodialysis. From these procedures, the work of the child's heart was shaken. Now she also has heart failure.

Vlada is a smart and cheerful girl, but apart from doctors, a hospital and children-patients of the toxicology department, she sees nothing. She needs to do hemodialysis three times a week for 4-5 hours. Here is such a completely childish life. The girl needs medications, but her family has nothing to buy. Vlada has only a mother and a grandmother. The grandmother works, but receives the minimum wage. Mom is constantly in the hospital with her daughter and cannot work. The child needs help. Her mom hopes that her Vlada can someday see life outside the hospital.