Save Arsenii from leukemia! 2 stage

Arseniy fought for his life until the last minute, however, on 5 January 2017, the boy died. We express our deep condolences to the family of Arseniy. The funds we collected will be used to pay the debt to the clinic. We are sincerely grateful to all those who with us believe in Arseniy until the end.

Since 2011 our little son Arsenii fights against an acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He was only three years old when the disease was found out. Since then he endured a lot of blocks of high-dose chemotherapy and brain radiation therapies. It was very difficult for Arsenii to endure treatment, he had the most severe headaches, followed by constant vomiting. Each time we recall it, the heart begins to ache and tears spring out.

From time to time disease retreated and we had a hope for the happy termination of this prolonged nightmare. At the age of 6, little Arsenii was accepted to the music school to the piano classes, then he joined a chorus, studied musical notation. And in autumn of 2015 at the age of 7 Arsenii dreamt to go to the 1st form of a comprehensive school, he underwent pre-school training with pleasure and was full of hopes. But in July, 2015, the disease returned. In January, 2016, with the support of the Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine, the child underwent bone marrow transplant surgery at the Polish hospital as such surgeries are not performed in Ukraine. And three months later this little hero came back home to Ukraine in order to revive. Once again we had a hope for a favorable treatment outcome, and that our little son will be healthy and happy again at last.

I can't express that pain, despair and fear which captured all our family when in October of this year 60% of blasts were detected at Arsenii’s peripheral blood. Illness returned again. Arsenii was again hospitalized in the Polish clinic and doctors suggested us to carry out the high-dose protocol, 4 blocks of a chemotherapy and transplantation of the bone marrow. The clinic made out a bill for 166,471 Euro. This price includes an experimental medicine at the cost of 50,000 Dollars and transplantation itself at the cost of 111,771 Euro. I don't know by what forces we will carry it all out, but we can't let our son face death, because we are not that parents who shall bury their children. We hope for your sincere support and a tacit prayer!

Name: Arseniy Y. Ulyanov, born 23.03.2008

Location: Odesa region, Illichivsk

Diagnosis: acute lymphoblastic leukemia. First isolated late (k\m) relapse, remission II (MRD-positive)