We’re in a dramatic situation! The costs of treatment have risen! Help…

How much longer does Karina have to suffer?  When will the path to recovery be over?  How many times will her mother have to ask for help?  Karina didn’t deserve this… Surgery after surgery, being put in a cast or orthoses for many weeks. She’s never had a normal childhood. But she has an opportunity to regain her physical ability! Please donate for the last time. Let’s defeat Karina’s pain and suffering together and offer her and her mom hope for a better future! 

Katarzyna, Karina’s mother:

My daughter has undergone five surgical procedures, and each gives us less hope of a happy ending… Thanks to your donations, she was about to have her last two surgeries in Germany. Unfortunately, her condition is so severe that she requires four! We also received an updated, higher cost estimate that includes those two additional treatments. An 11-year-old girl will be under stress again. 

In Germany, we received guidelines on how to rehabilitate the pelvis and spine since leg deformities impose an incorrect body posture. I don’t want to expose her to more pain associated with another spine surgery…  

A follow-up procedure is planned for May 24 (hospital admission a day earlier). That’s when the cast for orthoses is prepared. The whole treatment cycle was supposed to end by August, but it might prolong to September. We are not sure if we can raise such an amount until then… 

The previous fundraiser lasted two years, and we used all donations for physical therapy, which is necessary after every surgery.  

I didn’t expect such a rise in the cost of treatment, though. 

I am devastated. What am I supposed to tell my daughter? 

That we’re out of resources in the middle of the treatment, and we must go back home?  That she suffered for nothing? And her situation not only won’t improve but will get worse?  

Please read our story and if you care about my daughter’s fate, donate… 

My beloved daughter was born in December 2009 — our bliss didn’t last long, though… When she was two months old, the doctors discovered she had psychomotor impairment. We started physical therapy. I believed in Karina’s recovery and hoped that her hard work could soon let her catch up in terms of other children’s development. Unfortunately, the worst was yet to come…

The final and correct diagnosis was made too late when she was 20 months old. . We lost so many months that could have been spent on treatment… I didn’t know my daughter had cerebral palsy. More specifically, she had spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy affecting her lower limbs and the left upper limb. At the same time, she received a certificate of disability. It was heart-wrenching. Why did it happen to us? To Karina? We didn’t have time to pity ourselves, though. We’ve lost too much of it already. I knew I had to do my best to make my daughter happy despite her disease. 

Today Karina is taken care of by a team of specialists: a neurologist, neurosurgeon, orthopedist, physiatrist, and outpatient rehabilitation clinic. Due to other disorders, she’s also looked after by cancer and hematology outpatient clinic in Szczecin (due to a bleeding disorder called von Willebrand disease).

She is under the supervision of a cardiologist (minor heart defect); urologist (neurogenic bladder); allergist (food and inhalant allergies). It’s a lot to handle for a little girl…

Karina’s disease is terminal. She will never fully recover. The only solution is regular and strenuous physical therapy to improve the quality of her life. Plus the surgeries… 

Karina has only one dream – to walk again. We are trying our best to make it happen, but constant bad news, pain, and fear stand in our way… It’s hard for me to ask for help again… I promised my daughter I would do everything to save her, but it’s not enough…