My Story By Anna K.
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Hello everyone! Thank you for your interest in my story. My name is Anna, I'm 32 y.o. and I live in Russia. What I remember from my childhood is that I had always been the youngest kid among all other children. I was diagnosed with scoliosis at age 2 and I spent all my childhood in a specialized sanatorium for kids with scoliosis. I remember walking along endless corridors and crying: "I want to go home, I want to go home…" My grandmother once told me that I had run away with a friend and we both had been found asleep in the forest the morning after.
Then I was put in a specialized boarding school where I spent 9 years, from elementary to junior high school. The school is memorable for its strict regime, spinal braces grazing our bodies to bruises and plaster beds. When I was 11, I was unsuccessfully operated at Russia's Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (CITO). After the surgery, during which the doctors put in a spine distraction implant in my back, I woke up in plaster and had to live in plaster for a year. My body started to rot underneath it. Now I know the smell of human flesh.
The most horrible thing is that my condition is worsening day after day. Every year it's getting harder for me to breathe since one lung is almost fully jammed. Sometimes it gets really scary when I lay in bed and I can't get enough air. On my right leg there's an area (as big as the palm of the hand) that is insensible to anything. I can even put a hot cup of tea there.
I've recently visited one of the leading orthopedists of Moscow who told me that my condition would only worsen as I get older. At the same time all leading Russian medical institutions refuse to deal with my case. They do not want to correct other doctors' mistakes. I've visited all possible clinics, from Siberia to Moscow, and the answer is the same everywhere: go on living like that. Now the doctors get really surprised examining my spine: "How come they didn't stretch you at CITO? Why did they just put in the distraction implant?!" They say that the type of scoliosis that I had before the surgery is easily cured nowadays. But that doesn't help me much.
I found out that one girl I know had been successfully operated by a leading scoliosis doctor in Germany. Without much hope, after all the rejections that I had, I sent an inquiry to the German clinic. I enclosed my full story and all the X-rays. A month later I got a positive response. The whole treatment will last 3 months and will cost 75 000 euro (approx. 100 000 USD). After the surgery my life will be divided into BEFORE and AFTER. I sent inquiries to many foreign clinics but it's the only one where they can disjoint the bone block (conjoint vertebrae) through laser and without any neurologic after-effects.
It turns out that my dream costs 75 000 euro. Please help me achieve the dream of my whole life and become a good-looking woman who can eventually start a family and have a loving husband and adorable kids! There is no way back for me anyway.
Thank you. Wishing you good health and all the best.
My e-mail: annamoskow@inbox.ru
Account for money transfers:
S.W.I.F.T CODE: SABRRUMM
SBERBANK
DONSKOE BRANCH № 7813
MOSCOW RUSSIA
ACC. 42307.978.4.3811.0800114 (EUR)
Karamonova Anna Vladimirovna
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