My daughter Alexandra Gorobets is 15 years old. She is a smart and kind girl, with a real talent for music. She gets only excellent grades at school, loves drawing and photography.
My girl was admitted to the cardiological department of the Orel Regional Pediatric Hospital in February 2008. She was in grave condition, but the doctors could not diagnose the reason for it. She felt progressively worse, and finally she had to be taken to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Moscow by an emergency service. The physicians in Moscow saved the child and diagnosed her condition: systemic lupus erythematosus.
After several courses of chemotherapy, Alexandra now needs immunosuppressive therapy with CellCept or Myfortic. If she does not take these drugs regularly, the disease will develop further and lead to irreversible consequences. However, these drugs are not included in the standard list of medications that can be provided to patients with systemic lupus erythematosis free of charge. And we just cannot buy them ourselves: I raise my daughter all by myself, my monthly income is about $200, and one month of CellCept therapy will cost 18,000 roubles (about $560)! We cannot cope without your help.
My daughter is dreaming of becoming healthy again. She wants to get rid of her disease and to devote her life to music, to become a pianist and a composer some time.

With hope and gratitude,
Olga Gorobets

The doctor's comment

Alexandra I. Gorobets, 15 years old, was a patient of the Department of Clinical Immunology. Diagnosis: systemic lupus erythematosis, activity grade 1-2, relapse of myopericarditis, symptomatic arterial hypertension.

The child vitally needs long-term (at least 12 months) immunosuppressive therapy with CellCept 750 mg x 3 times daily or Myfortic 720 mg x 2 times daily. Without this therapy, there is a danger of disease progression, development of irreversible consequences and chronic cardiac insufficiency.

Physician-in-charge Yu.A. Rodina
Head of Department I.V. Kondratenko

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