False Mirror

A young girl looks in the mirror and freezes all inside. What she sees there scares her, leads to despair. This is a mistake! Nature was mistaken when played puzzles with her genetic code. Giant facial features, the curvature of the spine, spots on the skin... A rare Albright's syndrome distorts not only the appearance but also the life of the 24-year-old Victoria Komar from the village of Mokvin. 

It all began a few years ago when daddy suddenly died. She was 13. Of all children, dad loved the daughter most of all – younger than his four children. Vika was the undisputed favorite in the Komars family. A beauty, a dancer, a dreamer. But happy-go-lucky life was over in a moment. Vika suffered a loss severely. One day the girl realized that her relatives were ashamed that the barber refused to make her hair; people turned away and were afraid to welcome her hand.

The Albright syndrome, diagnosed in Vik, is a genetic error in the chromosome causing the increase of hormones production. This disease occurs in eight cases per million. Bones begin to grow excessively in different directions, distorting the usual harmony of an anatomy of the body and face. Some parts of the body become gigantic in size. Instead, Vika’s appearance does not frighten those she cares of – small kids in the kindergarten she works. A good-hearted tutor is loved by both kids and parents. Not having her own children, Vik gives all her spiritual warmth to others. They are her salvation from loneliness. And although the gallows are about thirty, a little woman always gives them advice. But she is powerless in the face of nature.

Trying to restore beauty, Vika has undergone several operations to remove chin bones. But it always grew back with renewed vigor. Three times a day of injections, pill, and drops. The medicine provided by the state did not offer any improvement – the bones continued to grow unsystematically, the arms bent, shoulders lowered...

Recently, doctors of the TV project "I'm ashamed of my body" took up to help the girl. They managed to pause bone growth and remove excess growth on the chin. They were able to determine not to lose this result it is necessary to keep a normal level of hormone somatotropin in Vika’s organism. So she needs to constantly take a medicine called somatulin. Its cost is 32 thousand hryvnia per month. Such an amount is not achievable either for the girl herself nor for her acquaintances.

For the first time in many years, Vika has a chance for a normal life. Let's help her! At UBB website we collect 158,895 UAH to provide a stock of the drug for a year.

Name: Komar Viktoria, 28.04.1994

City: Mokvin village, Rivne region

Diagnosis: McKeung-Albright syndrome, cystic fibrosis osteodysplasia, IV degree kyphoscoliosis, pseudo-tumor deformation of the mandible, hypersomatotropinemia, multi-nodular toxic goiter, thyrotoxicosis.