Vika: it is vitally important

8-year-old Vika doesn’t get on not only with her school but also with a series of her hobbies such as drawing, dancing, needlework... And very often she doesn’t manage with hospital too. She was born on 28th of September, 2010, then she underwent surgery operation when she was only 3 days old; she was a patient of intensive care unit for several times during the following years. Moreover, she has to undergo regular special treatment once for several months. 

All this time her older, but still a little brother is waiting for her and her mother at home. After Vika’s return home he will carry her bag again, protect her, help to catch up on missed lessons. The only thing Vika’s brother cannot do is to earn a lot of money to get all necessary. Their mother cannot do it either. Vika was born with a severe genetic disorder – cystic fibrosis. It affects the whole body, and especially lungs. Sputum of high viscosity affects the walls of the bronchi and blocks the respiratory tract, it becomes difficult to breathe – sometimes you begin to suffocate even in one night. To live, a patient with cystic fibrosis should do inhalations and special physical exercises every day, in the morning and in the evening, to help cough out sputum and prevent outbreaks of pulmonary infections.

Usually, it takes from two to sixteen inhalations every day without any break and ordinary devices do not withstand such load and get broken fast. Thus, patients with cystic fibrosis need to have super powerful inhalers and change the consumables to them on regular basis. But the price for this equipment – is also super "special", pricey. In addition, patients need to have breathing simulators, all the equipment should be sterilized on every day basis and the room should be cleaned with a bactericidal lamp. All these actions help to reduce the frequency and intensity of disease attacks, and therefore – to reduce the necessity to undergo a hospital treatment.

Thus, now we ask for your help to buy Vika all the necessary equipment – this is vitally important for her.

Name: Kolesnyk Viktoria, 28.09.2010

City: Gorodenka, Ivano-Frankivsk region

Diagnosis: cystic fibrosis with pancreatic insufficiency