Mom, I want you to live!

Katrina Rybalka until recently was full of plans and hopes and raised a small daughter, as she had a whole life ahead! She imagined how she would lead her kiddy to school. She thought that she could show her a lot of interesting because the world is so beautiful! But the bright world became gray in 2017. The diagnosis of Lymphoma B-large-cell non-Hodgkin’s of the 4th stage became an absolute shock to her. This is an aggressive form of cancer, without a cure the fatal outcome occurs in a year. By this time her daughter will be only 5 years old!

Katrina began treatment when her daughter had not yet gone to the kindergarten. Since then she has undergone 11 chemotherapies. It was very difficult, because of bad weakness and dizziness and she could not even go out into the street, barely moved around the apartment. The first seven chemotherapies showed good results, lymph nodes decreased. But the examination in March 2018 showed, unfortunately, the growth of the tumor and the emergence of new foci. Her daughter starts to cry as soon as the mom leaves the house to go to the hospital. She realizes that her mother is ill, and Katrina tries to restrain herself and promises her that everything will be fine and she will be nearby her princess for a long long time. She cannot even imagine how her little daughter will live without mom…

Katrina is looking for all possible ways. And she asks to help her kiddy not to lose her mother. The treatment has good results, a disease can be stopped, but it is needed to proceed with treatment. On 11 chemotherapies Katrine has spent all her own money and now without the support of kind people she cannot cope. Now the woman needs to perform an autologous transplantation of homo-cellular stem cells in the Kiev bone marrow transplantation center, the cost of medicines for transplantation is almost 200 000 UAH. At UBB, we collect part of the necessary amount.

"I am terribly afraid to stay alone with my own misfortune. Help me to survive for my daughter!", tells Katrine.

Name: Rybalka Katrina, 07.09.1985

City: Odessa

Diagnosis: Non-Hodgkin's diffuse In large-cell lymphoma st.IVA