Taia will sing again!

Anyone who has ever heard Taia singing is a fan of her charming voice. The girl lived in her songs and could truly feel the music. She participated in contests both solo and with her group. Her teacher predicted her future as a star and Taisia worked actively to achieve it. She dreamed of a big stage performances and flowers from fans. But an evil disease suspended all the dreams of a talented girl. Taia took not only for voice lessons but also actively practiced gymnastics and swimming to be always in shape. After all, the star should be always beautiful and healthy.

At first the girl had back pain. It wasn’t alarming because the girl practiced sports actively. When the girl felt pain oftener the parents referred to the hospital. The examination detected a neoplasm in the thoracic section of the spinal cord. The doctors supervised the case.

In 2010 the girl underwent a surgery to remove the tumor and a shunt system was inserted to eliminate the symptoms that it caused. After that Taya’s leg stopped functioning. But it was not the end of troubles as the girls’ parents got divorced and the mother had to take care of her daughter’s rehabilitation alone.

It seemed that all the hardships were behind. But Taya is at the hospital again. Her shunt system has to be cleaned. Such a surgery is not considered to be complicated as compared with the others that are performed in this department but it requires medical consumables and medicines. Unfortunately, there are no all the necessary medical consumables and medicines at the department. The mother has to buy them on her on her but has no means to do it any more.

It is impossible to imagine that our singing Ukraine will lose such a good voice!

Name: Taisia V. Shevchenko, born 22/05/2001

Location: Kyiv region

Diagnosis: diffuse astrocytoma; hydrocephalus, shunt dysfunction system state after removal of spinal cord tumors