Bone marrow for the girl

Nastya Panasenko is 4 years old from Zaporozhye and she is sick. From one side her body (and bone marrow precisely) is attacked by the aggressive myelogenous leukemia. From the other side by aggressive and high dose of chemio therapy, aiming to get Nastya into the remission. Nastya needs a new bone marrow, otherwise she will die like many other kids who were not lucky to get help on-time. The cost of help for Nastya is 112 thousand Euros. 

This is the price for bone marrow transplantation in Polish hospital in Bydgosh. And we have a chance to help her.

- Mommy-mommy, I'm a girl! I'm a girl again! - Nastya was touching her small queues and was so happy. - I'm a girl, they won't be calling me a boy anymore!

In August 2014 Nastya was diagnosed with leukemia and was having treatments up till March 2015. She went through many blocks of chemio and of course all this time she had no hair. That's why all the time they were calling Nastya a boy on the kid's playground. May be little Nastya didn't care much how she was called but her mom was worrying a lot about that. And her worries transfered to Nastya. So here is the result: "I'm a girl!".
Swarthy, dark curly hair and dark shiny eyes. This is Nastya at the time of remission, before the sickness got back. Nobody knows why it got back. May be it is an outcome of the therapy. It can happen. Or may be the cancer got stronger. Now the kid has 37% of unhealthy cells, which are growing, replacing healthy cells and killing kid's body.

- Mommy, okay, I'm already healthy. Get ready and let's go home! - Nastya was saying in January 2016 after few days of coming back to the hospital.

Nastya thought that she came for planned check-ups because once they promised her that painful treatment is over. But almost 2 months passed and mommy doesn't seem like coming back home. Nastya is upset with the doctors and making faces when it hurts. But then she starts playing with the doctors. Now it's not mommy talking to them but Nastya. She knows more when it hurts. Nastya is also answering the calls when mommy leaves the room.

- Hello-hello! This is Nastya. I'm watching cartoons now. "Moon-guy" - I hear on the phone. - Hello! You need mommy? I can call her. Mooooommmy!!

Nastya likes to talk, to laugh and to make fun. Generally she looks like a little monkey who loves jumping and running. But now instead of monkey a small scared kid is watching us with the huge black eyes wearing a fury jacket. Small person who can not do much except taking pills on-time.

In order to stop unhealthy cells the doctors started using heavy high dose chemio. We don't know how many blocks of chemio Nastya may need, how many she can handle and if this will help her to get into the remission. We hope that it will. Nastya's body already gave positive feedback on the treatments. And if it will continue the girl would need to go to Poland immediately for bone marrow transplantation. There are already 5-6 potential donors for Nastya and this is one of the best news during long time.

The girl will lose her beautiful hair again. But it can grow. If we will save Nastya. Let's try to collect needed 112 thousand Euros. This is what we can do.

Name: Anastasia S. Panasenko, born 19.06.2011

Location: Zaporizhzhia

Diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia