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 In 2002, when she was 10 years old, she was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia in the Children's City Hospital #1 in Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation. At that time, she had other parents, who did not care about her and ignored all treatment prescriptions for this terrible, but even at that time curable disease. Natalia was not treated properly to complete the therapy. One year later, her father died, and after another year, her mother was deprived of paternal rights. So Natalia was sent to an orphanage. Her life after hospital consisted of permanent stress that had consequences for her health. In 2007, she had a relapse of her disease. In the summer labour camp, to which she was sent by the head of the children’s home despite her disabled status, the heavy bleeding began. She was transferred to hospital via emergency service. There, in this hospital, I found my future daughter. She was not crying – there was no sense in this, because nobody was there to feel sorry for her. When I asked about the needs of the girl, all of the physicians said that her state, her feeling of horror, panic and despair, would not allow her to overcome the disease. I was too weak just to go away. We spent in this hospital 9 terrible and painful months. During the treatment, the child lost one eye due to a fungal contamination, chemotherapy weakened her heart, medicaments, included in the treatment protocol, caused excruciating pains, which were resistant to any pain relief… In following two years, she received a supporting chemotherapy, was isolated from society because of reduced immune status, and completed three classes in one year to make up for her peers. In March 2010 I adopted Myasnikova Natalia Mikhajlovna and she became Kudryavtseva Natalia Yaroslavovna. We hoped that we had won. This September, Natalia was able to return to a normal life of a seventeen-year-old girl. On September 1st, she was happy as a first-grader. Now Natalia is observed at the Department of Hematology of the Almazov Federal Heart, Blood and Endocrinology Centre. Laboratory tests, done in November, revealed the urgent need to receive a treatment with a medication called Trisenox (Arsenic Trioxide). The horrible fact is that if she will not receive this treatment now, a relapse of the disease is unavoidable. It will be impossible to stabilize and to cure, as two of the chemotherapy protocols have already been applied, and the chances that the body will respond to the same chemotherapy treatment for a third time are extremely low!!! Unfortunately, this medicine is not registered on the territory of Russian Federation. It can not be applied in Russian clinics, but getting the cherished therapy is possible in Europe and USA. After consideration of multiple foreign suggestions, a variant offered by the Clinic of the University of Munich (Klinikum der Universität München, Grosshadern, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, München) appeared as the most budget one. The expenses for that were counted as 113,000 euro. The life of my daughter started again just 3 years ago. She wants to live so much, live the life of an ordinary girl, leaving the nightmares in the past! I plead you to help my daughter! And the hand of Giving will not become depleted. I pray for you. Veronica Kudryavtseva. Natalia's webpage on the AdVita Charitable Foundation, International Association "Hematologists of the World for Children": http://www.advita.ru/en/NMyas1.php
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