We will wait for you

The state leaves these people to die. And the employees of the Barnaul branch of the Karitas patronage service regularly come to the lying patients, old people and disabled people, bring rehabilitation funds, take care of them

The TD correspondent visited several houses that the Karitas service is patronized. In the first part, we talked about the wards of Ksenia and Polina, employees of the patronage service, in Barnaul, today - about wards from the surrounding villages and villages.

Siberian verticalizer

An hour by car from Barnaul along a slippery road surrounded by the fields of black, dried sunflower. A strong side wind slightly drags a car, but the driver, sister Maria, has been living in Siberia for more than twenty -five years, weather conditions do not embarrass her. In the village, a scraping of the bottom along the road, the bumper is planted on a huge snowdrift at the house of the Karitas patronage service. “A key under the third brick! -The sonorous male voice from somewhere inside. - Come in, go! " We pass along a home -made cement ramp, there are no thresholds inside - the owner, Sergey Ivanovich, leaves towards the wheelchair.

- How are you not afraid to leave the keys like that?! - asks Ksyusha, an employee of the Karitas patronage service. - You never know what!

“So I have nothing to fear,” Sergey laughs.

In 1990, he unsuccessfully ducked and broke the cervical vertebrae. “To” the biography was ordinary, like everyone else. Childhood in the village, there is also a ten -year -old, army, marriage, little son. “After” - a year without movement, first in the hospital, then at home.

“Father told me:“ Enough, ”Sergey recalls. - I did not want to do it myself, but they raised me and my brother on the board.

- How is it on the board?

- And the ordinary board, the shelf is nailed to it below, their legs were placed there and lifted. Siberian verticalizer!

The wife of Sergey, Lyudmila, comes. “I told her when everything happened, leave me, take my son and leave, live you,” says Sergey. Lyudmila smiles quietly. In addition to Sergey, she takes care of the old mother and is engaged in the garden.

Sergey's hands are awkward, more so -warmed. It was not possible to write an electric stroller in an individual rehabilitation program (IPR), you have to cope with the usual one. He trains: wooden platbands above the doors are decorated with intricate carvings, in the yard a pair of birdhouses. There are many more crafts, but he gives them out.

Sergei shows the photos in which he catches fish with his own cone-coat, goes on a motorcycle in a specially adapted cradle, and his friends sits at the cross on the site of the future church.

Sergey and employees of the patronage service of Ksenia and Polina Photo: Natalia Bulkina/Schschi for TD

Sergey photo: Natalia Bulkina/Schschi for TD

- Sergey, have you ever fallen into despondency?

Sergey grins:

-In fact, I first gnawed a vein on my hand. Because the blade could not hold with a second hand.

Sergey’s son came to Karitas on an ad. In the basement of the building where the patronage service is located, the real "gym". There is a functional bed, devices in order to get up, wash, take care of the skin of a lying person. The sisters show how to turn it over properly, how to rebuild linen, change clothes, lean. Hundreds of action made of daily routine, which we do not even think about, are still healthy. The son took a functional bed from Karitas, Polina and Ksenia just came to check whether it was possible to use it from the family.

Sergey drives up to the bed in a stroller, shows with visible pleasure: this is how the headrest rises, this is the most convenient position for sleeping, here you can grab it to turn the integrated body. Both on the bed and on the sofa are large garbage bags - it is difficult to transfer a half -immobilized body, and the package is slippery, it helps. "I knew that the difficulties!" - Ksyusha says with satisfaction. She is happy that she did not forget a special sliding sheet that just solves such problems.

Is it possible to enter such a bed in the IPR? According to the law, it is possible, although not so long ago. But more often they still give monetary compensation, which does not cover half the cost of the purchase either.

There can only be one path here

-I was little u-Mni-Kochka! So good, so fast, my father says - Sasha’s in his hands is on. Then she worked at the sugar factory as an accountant, and the director forever respected me, did not say a bad word. I have never been to anyone in the extension, I never called children a full name, only affectionately. My brother, Alexander Evgrahevich and my second brother ...

In October, Alexander Evgravna will turn ninety -two years. She lies completely motionless, her almost blind eyes look at the shadows from the trees on the curtain. Long, beautiful fingers forth the blanket, crush and neatly smoot it, crush and smoothed, tens, hundreds of times a day. Polina sits down by the bed and cheerfully says: “Well, Alexandra Evgrafreyevna, tell us how you studied the car?”

The past has the past in the fog - she does not remember what her second husband was called, she does not always recognize her daughter Vera, who has been taking care of her for the past few years. The closer to youth and childhood, the more clearly people and events appear, she again and again lists her brothers, talks about the plant where she began to work, recalls how she fed the older child.

Alexandra Evgrahevna photo: Natalia Bulkina/Schschi for TD

Box "Mamino for burial" Photo: Natalia Bulkina/Schschi for TD

In the house of Alexandra Evgravna, everything is established - the floors are washed, clean linen, to a night shirt, faith on a safe pin pinned a handkerchief. For years, the developed routine: feed, turn over, wash, listen, answer. A piece of fabric was adapted to the functional bed, which was brought by the Karitas patronage service several years ago, so that, without bending over, lift the lever. Immediately after Alexandra Evgravna fell ill, Vera tore her back - even a dry and light lying patient without a habit of turning and lifting it hard.

Now Vera is lightning speed and changes his mother. In 2013, when Karitas only began the patronage of this family, Vera knew nothing. When, after the next exit from the hospital, Alexander Evgravna fell, Vera in a panic at night called one of the patronage sisters: “I can’t raise it, I can’t do anything, how can I be?”

In the hospital, doctors said that in some special care it makes no sense: “What do you want? Eighty -seven years to my grandmother, there can be only one way. ” You can go this way in different ways. It is possible - in the sprats, a monstrous smell, with fractures of fragile senile bones, which are so easy to damage if you do not know how to raise it correctly. And it is possible as faith in Karitas was taught. She rented a functional bed, the sisters showed how to properly and deftly care for Alexandra Evgrahevna. And they began to come constantly-even letting go of faith if she needed to leave somewhere for a short while.

- I have never been to anyone in the extension, I never called children a full name, only affectionately!

- Mom, stop tormenting Polina, you already say this for the fifth time! - Vera shouts loudly in the ear of Alexander Evgravna and straightens her a blanket. Polina smiles softly and again asks:

-Alexandra Evgrahevna, how did you drive by car?

When we gather and go out, Alexander Evgravna begins to cry plaintively. “We all began to leave all at once, but I know that she needs to be carefully, carefully, without these farewells of collective!” - changes in the face of Ksyusha. Every time the girls leave, grandmother cries bitterly, inconsolably, so usually the sisters wait until she falls asleep or is forgotten. We stand with Polina at the entrance for a long time - Ksyusha will come out only after half an hour, waiting for the ward to calm down. Patronage will come here next week.

"For that, the Lord gives me strength"

- Openly, openly, I'm rushing the dishes! - shouts from the kitchen Valentina Aleksandrovna. Last year, she celebrated his ninety anniversary. I thought that she needed patronage, but Valentina Aleksandrovna, “Baba Valya”, quickly leads us into the house, arranges on chairs and sits next to his daughter Olga. It is she who takes care of Karitas for the eighth year. Olga removed the brain tumor, the danger to life disappeared, but she stopped walking.

Baba Valya tries to do everything herself and says that he is not going to get sick and die - who will care for her daughter? Olga sighs heavily:

- Mom, I myself would already care for you, and I see how ...

- Daughter, well, how can I not go for my child? - Baba Valya affectionately strokes Olga on the shoulder. - For that, the Lord gives me strength and gives us people what good, you see?

Valentina Aleksandrovna photo: Natalia Bulkina/Schschi for TD

Valentina Aleksandrovna and her daughter Olga Vasilievna. Photo: Natalia Bulkina/Schschi for TD

Ksenia and Polina lead Olga to wash. Baba Valya can do a lot and do a lot, but if not for the patronage service, Olga would live without running water. They take her out of the bathroom in a clean robe, the panama closes the wet head.

“It is advisable, of course, in this form I would not be photographed,” she says shyly.

“No, photograph us, come on,” Baba Valya laughs. - Now you will follow - we will pick up the suitors.

Polina and Ksenia are going to leave, Baba Valya asks them about children, promises to finish something for them.

- Go with Christ, girls! She says already from the door. - We will wait for you!

220 patronage.

140 issuance of rehabilitation funds.

6015 individual consultations.

9 trained social workers.

These are the statistics of only the Barnaul branch of the Karitas patronage service for 2016. In general, Karitas patronage services work in Ishim and Omsk, St. Petersburg and Saratov, Volgograd and Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk and Marx. The twelfth year, “girls” like Polina and Ksyusha, enter the houses of people who are exhausted and tormented by diseases, help them and their relatives, give hope and retain dignity. Line old people are fed in neurological departments of hospitals. They teach other people to care for correctly. Packs with diapers, pure diapers, walkers drag on themselves. They talk, comfort, look after, advise.

How much does such a job cost? For the state, apparently, this payment is overwhelmed. The state believes that it is enough to prescribe a few drugs, examine in the hospital and leave alone. There are few people 'things, “here is not an almshouse,” as they said in the department of social protection to one of the Karitas wards.

The year of work of ten centers of patronage service in all cities of Russia costs a little more than eight million rubles, and about Dean the day of work of the patronage sister costs 831 rubles . A small payment, which once a month will be drunk from your card, and Olga will not be more pressure sore, and faith, tied to the mother’s bed for days and nights, can at least sometimes not be one. Hundreds of people throughout the country will know - help will come. You will help, and help will come.

The first part of the story about the work of Ksenia and Polina from the Barnaul branch of the Karitas patronage service can be read here .