Wake up the sleeping beauty. Stage 2

A year ago with your help we “awakened” Yana, “the sleeping beauty” whose condition was caused by a viral disease. Yana was able to undergo treatment and return to normal life. Only regular checkups reminded the girl of “terrible days” of her life. Now Yana has to undergo a repeated cycle of antiviral treatment. Unfortunately, the girl’s mother who is an ordinary nurse cannot afford to buy the necessary medicines. 

Every week the girl has to receive a medication that is just slightly cheaper than her mothers’ entire monthly salary. And the treatment will last six months… Yana and her mother ask kind-hearted people to help.

The whole department knows Yana from childhood. The girl’s mother works at the Institute of Neurosurgery and now by evil twist of fate her own daughter became a patient of this department. Sometimes Yana came there to “help” her mother, she played with patients and “learned” from the doctors. Yana grew up from a little girl to a young lady who dreamed of becoming a doctor and helping ill children. But now she needs help. The girl’s disease is caused by a virus. The symptoms appear all of a sudden and last for several days. At first Yana gets melancholic as if she were in a bad mood but then she falls into unconsciousness. In this state, she has convulsions.

When the next attack will happen, what is the catalyst, no one can say. The tests detect only the presence of a virus. And only a knockout dose of antiviral medication and hormones can put the girl on her feet. If the girl doesn’t receive the necessary medication in time, she will suffer from convulsions, fall into a state like coma and no one know what will happen next. Let’s help Yana not to fall asleep again!

Name: Yana O. Nosova, born 13.07.1997

Location: Chernigiv region, Nizhyn

Diagnosis: encephalomyelopolyradiculoneuritis with lesions of the brain-stem and diencephalon, symptomatic epilepsy