I will not Give Up

Vika was 24 years old when the doctors diagnosed blood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Her son was only four. For two years, Vika has been struggling with a terrible disease

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"You have an Angina"

The seventh floor of the hematological department of the fortieth hospital at VDNH. Back, smells of medicine. Vika is waiting for dad and her husband, who were urgently called on the phone. She believes that she has some kind of blood poisoning, now they will make a transfusion and let her go home. My husband arrived: “He told me the diagnosis - acute leukemia. All. My hysteria began, ”says Victoria. - I shout that I want to throw myself out of the window. I then set the cross on myself. ”

Vika photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

A month before, in January, she had a temperature, but there was no time to walk around the doctors - she just went to a new job. The temperature did not fall for two weeks, and the parents insisted that Vika went to the doctor. She is told that this is an Angina, and prescribe antibiotics. The temperature holds, the lymph nodes increase, bruises appear on the legs, the gums begin to bleed. Vika goes to a paid clinic in Zelenograd, the doctor sends her for a week to an infectious diseases hospital, where, after the first injection, Vika does not stop blood for more than an hour. Finally, someone guessed to direct the girl to the hematologist.

"I will not omit my hands"

Vika read everything about the disease and realized that there is treatment and we must fight. After the first course of chemotherapy, the doctor advised asking friends to donate blood: constant transfusion was needed, and donor blood is always catastrophically lacking. She wrote a post in social networks. Hundreds of people responded to her request: everyone whom Vika knew from kindergarten, neighbors, strangers from all over Zelenograd. A day came to donate blood for 30-40 people. From this moment, Vika began to actively talk about her illness on the Internet. “Everyone began to write and support me, I realized that I would not drop my hands, since there are so many people with me,” recalls Victoria. - For me, support for people means a lot. They arranged different promotions to help collect me money: they sold balls, put inscriptions with words of support on cars - in general, they helped, who could do what. ”

Vika photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Vika with son Vadim photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

“I was shocked by my mother when she came to me for the first time after they made me a diagnosis. My mother is so thin, small, crybaby, ”says Vika. - I am fighting that I do not want to live. And she comes calm, smiles, tells me that we will all survive. I thought: “Wow, how strong she is.” And calmed down. If she burst into tears in front of me, I would not be able to survive all this. ”

The whole family decided that mother would continue to work so as not to stay with her fears at home, and her father, Sergey Viktorovich, who had to leave work, would take care of Vika.

Vika photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

“I have always been nearby, after all, I, as a man, do better in emergency situations. I only pulled Vika twice from the other world. And mom is lost, crying, does not know what to do, ”says Sergey Viktorovich.

A vicious circle

Vika successfully passed the chemotherapy course and in the spring entered remission. The restoration was not easy: she lost weight, could not eat anything, she was sick all the time. By summer, the girl became better. “We exhaled. I am so satisfied, thin, tell my husband that I need to buy beautiful things, because everything is great for me, ”Vika laughs. - And here the results of the next tests come. Relapse. "

Vika with son Vadim photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Vika with son Vadim photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

The collection of money for urgent treatment with a new generation with an expensive drug. The Vika Helped to acquire it was helped by the Foundation "Give Life". And already in September, remission came again. And in December - again relapse. “I felt bad and immediately realized what was happening to me. I ran to the nearest free clinic and tell the doctor everything, and she to me: “No, that you are, these glands are inflamed, everything is in order.” And I cry, I already feel my body. I called my doctor. She did not reassure. She said right away: it's bad. ”

Again a hospital, chemotherapy, remission. By that time, Vika already knew: with its form of leukemia, bone marrow transplantation is necessary, otherwise it is impossible to break this vicious circle.

Vika’s transplant began to be carried out by specialists of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantology named after R. M. Gorbacheva. Now it is the only center in the country where all types of transplants for adults and children are made.

Second birthday

The search for a donor became an obstacle. After all, as it turned out, the state pays only the transplantation procedure, but not the search for a donor in international registration bases. The search is 18 thousand euros. An incredible amount for a Vikin family is a dad without work, husband-student, mom works a cook in Ponchikova, in her arms a little Vadik. “It was very scary, I always thought where to get this money. Even if you sell the house - it costs less, and where will Vadim and parents live?! I thought to take a loan, but who would give me this amount? But you still need to pay for the delivery of donor cells to St. Petersburg, the drugs that are needed before transplantation and after it. The treatment of complications sometimes costs not even hundreds of thousands - millions of rubles. And where to live in St. Petersburg? Doctors immediately warned: at least a hundred days it will be necessary to be not just in the same city - in walking distance from the hospital. "

The bustle search for money began. No one knew how much the next lull would last, but it was clear that there was not enough time. Sergei Viktorovich called the funds for days - everyone refused for various reasons. Only the Advita Foundation responded. There, the family helped to collect the amount necessary in order to pay for the search for the donor, settled in one of the apartments that the Fund rents for its wards, after transplantation was supported during long and severe rehabilitation.

Vika photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Vika found a donor from Germany, now she has a rare fourth blood group instead of her native third. Vika really wants to thank his donor, write him a letter and say what he did for her, her family, son. Now for Vika, the day of transplantation is the second birthday.

Now the family is recovering, everyone has gone to work, making plans for the future. The son will soon go to school, which means that you need to move to the city, prepare for study. Vika wants to find a job in a charitable foundation and help people as they helped her.

Vika with son Vadim photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD Vika with son Vadim photo: Anna Ivantsova for TD

Today, Vika is preparing for vaccinations and examinations - she has immunity as in a newborn child, learns the alphabet with Vadim, makes plans for the future. All this became possible thanks to the help of the Advita Foundation, which the only one undertook to help Vika. The fund has been helping children and adults with cancer for fifteen years. In order to continue to save lives like Vika, the fund needs money, very large. And only we can collect them and give a chance for a happy long life to all those who have encountered a terrible diagnosis.

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