Save the angel

UPD: Ministry of Health of Ukraine has paid for the operation for Matvii. You can find more information on the project blog. The parents have been waiting for Matvii for the long 14 years. The treatment and the players couldn’t help them. So Kateryna and Yevgen decided to adopt the baby. This way also turned out to be very difficult but finally, husband and wife found their son, and small Matvii acquired his home and loving parents. Mother and father doted on him, but their happiness lasted only 4 months. Once the boy has got a fever, analysis result returned a verdict: the leucosis. Only bone marrow transplantation could save him.

The father’s letter is long and very touching. It tells of the searchers for the clinic, which could help him and his wife to have a baby. It tells of their coming to Christianity, how they became the godparents of other kids and helped in their education, but haven’t still got their own child. How they decided to adopt the baby. They collected all the necessary documents, completed preliminary courses, started to visit the twins, left by their mother in the hospital. Katerina and Yevgeny have got attached to them, but the children’s services made a resolution in favor of another family.

Katerina and Yevgeny were grieving for this loss heavily. But after all this February they adopted a small boy. Looking after the baby was delightful for parents. First rattles and first tooth, restless nights and first smile. But once they found out the spots on the son’s body. They set no store by this, but the fever made the parents bother. The analysis result was overwhelming: acute lymphoblastic leukemia. They were treated in Dnipro district children’s hospital for 2 weeks, started to undergo chemotherapy, but all the doctors said that without transplantation everything might end tragically.

Here is possible sibling transplant only in Ukraine, but the adopters are not relatives. The family set off for Belarus. The doctors in Minsk made a new diagnosis: bilinear leukemia, and issue an invoice: 150 000$ for the chemotherapy and transplantation. Fortunately, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine has paid for the operation in the Belarusian clinic. At UBB, we collect funds for pre- and post-operative chemotherapy for Matvii. When you read such stories, you think sometimes: why good people, parents have to suffer so much. But it would be right to ask other questions: what would have happened with Matvii if he stayed in children’s home? Nobody would search money for treatment abroad, the boy wouldn’t stand a chance. Matvii’s life is within our responsibility. Active involvement of partial people has already changed his fate, now let’s give him the chance of survival.

Name: Bilyi Matvii, 23.09.2016

City: Dnipro

Diagnosis: acute bilinear leukemia