Help for Maja Kaplon

Dear All,

Can you please help raise money for a lovely and very talented Maja Kaplon – 24 year old The Voice of Poland finalist? Maja is a resident of my town and our community is helping to collect money for her surgery in New York.

Since childhood she has had 18 operations carried out on her spine and thought that the one done two years ago would be the last. Everything fell apart this year, when all of a sudden she started feeling pain and having difficulties with breathing, eating and walking. After a medical check-up, she’s been informed that the rod supporting her spine snapped. That was a steel rod which was supposed to hold her spine for the rest of the life.

Her spine started to collapse and deform into nearly unrecoverable state. Now her last chance to be fully functional and come back to the stage to sing for us is quite pricey surgery in New York.

Maja suffers from progressive thoracolumbar idiopathic scoliosis, rib hump, lumbar deformity.　

GOAL: Resection and spine stabilization surgery in New York.

Can you please donate, every penny counts! Time is running out!

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Donations go directly to a charity fundraiser https://www.siepomaga.pl/en/maja-kaplon verified by the Siepomaga Foundation.

Regards,

Anna

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MESSAGE FROM MAJA　

(19-Nov-2019)

Dear All,

Thank you for your support so far. Last weeks are cruel and hard for me. Hard, because my body is literally overwhelmed. I began to have shortness of breath and I must sleep with the window open so that my lungs can get enough air. Stabbing in the chest has become my daily life, arms and legs are numb. Pain pierces the neck, radiating to the temples and head. I'm afraid to get up, I'm afraid of being upright, because every day pressure pushes my body.

I would like to let you see me only on the music stage, and in the photo above I must reveal something that I fear the most in the world ... My spine collapses like a building during an earthquake, and internal organs no longer have space. From mid-October, the most comfortable is to lie on my back, but the hump on which I lie makes my head lower than my thorax, gastric juices spill out, causing constant heartburn ... I can't sleep in a half-sitting position.

We collected the first million. I am so glad that so many people have already been willing to help me, and at the same time I see that 4.5 million is still needed ... I have no choice but to constantly ask you for more and more. This is my only chance ...

- Maja

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(24-Oct-2019)

Some of you may recognize me from TV, two years ago I fulfilled one of my biggest dreams and made it to the final rounds of “The Voice of Poland”. My voice was heard by many and most even enjoyed it. Today the only thing that can hear my voice live is my pillow and my four bedroom walls. I’m essentially trapped... I would love to sing, but now I have to fight for help!

4 years ago when I went through my 18th spinal surgery, I held on to that hope that the 18th one would be the last one. I hoped that the many rods that hold me up from the inside wouldn’t fall apart and I could continue living my life to the fullest day by day. It didn’t work... the metal rod broke, practically strapping me to my bed. My last and only choice to return to a normal state is the long and harsh road to a surgery in the USA. My health and physical well-being has been set at a cost of 5,5 million PLN (so about 1,422,000 USD or 1,286,000EUR)...

I was born with scoliosis, you can clearly see it in the x-ray inserted. When I was four years old, my doctors inserted me in a cast corset and my parents were told that someday I would need surgery. No one ever imagined I would need this many...

The first time I was operated on I had just turned 8 years old. When I think back on it, I can remember the screws in my skull and my knees, attached to them were lines holding weights. I lied like that for two weeks, because of that my body “grew” 10cm. The countless limits, missing school and rare contact with friends became my new reality. A reality that I lived with until I was 20 years old. That was when I went through my 18th operation.

Everything fell apart this year, when I started experiencing problems with breathing and pain in my chest. After longer walks my hip started hurting to the point that I could no longer sleep at night. After being examined, it turned out that the steel rod that was supposed to hold up my spine for the rest of my life - broke two years ago! I tried to live life to the fullest and use up the days given to me completely. I toured, recorded a CD with my band and also found my dream job with kids. I helped out a lot, playing many charity concerts for those who needed the help. Today I need help...

Just as everything started working out, my enemy who has haunted me since I was born came back and with more strength and power than ever. I lie in bed helplessly, my back hurts and tears are running down my face. I can’t work, I can’t do what I love the most... Once more, we have to fix my completely damaged spine, but the surgery in Poland has extreme risks - I may never be able to walk again. That’s why I have decided on the United States. They have the newest technology, outstanding professionals and a dramatic reduction of complications. Sadly, this operation is extremely costly...

Over 5 million PLN. I can’t even begin to imagine that large amount of money and I need to raise it as quickly as possible. Every day worsens my condition. Each motion can lead to damage that is unrecoverable. The spine isn’t a hand or finger. It’s an intricate piece that holds up your entire body. If it crumbles it’s over. So please, I’m begging for help. I’ll owe you a lifetime of songs, words and soo much love and energy, however much I’ll be able to give for the rest of my life.　

-Maja

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