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The parents of Misha are asking for your help.
05.04.2002 The Moscow relatives of Misha Koverzyuk told us that Misha had died in Kaliningrad.

25.12.2001 Recormon for 8524.82 roubles was bought for Misha Koverziuk.

01.12.2001 Misha Koverziuk is in very sad circumstances. After the solutions for peritoneal dialysis were bought thanks to your help, Misha went home in a good condition and in a remission as to his basic disease. Everything was all right, but suddenly abdominal pains began. The parents instantly took the child to Moscow, hoping that maybe it is just hernia and a simple operation is required. Unfortunately, these were metastases. Nothing can be done now, the tumor does not respond to treatment, and only palliative treatment is possible.

23.10.2001 Using his credit card, Alexey Sukonkin donated $1000 for the treatment of Misha Koverznuck; Andrey paid $300 for the dialysis solutions for Misha Koverznuck.

12.10.2001 Alexander paid $500 to cover the expenses for the perthoneal dialysis for Misha Koverzuk.

10.10.2001 Peter Petrov transferred 1000 Rubles for Misha.
koverzuk.jpg - 8763 Bytes Misha is our very beloved child. He began to read very early and loved poems. He was busy all the time and helped me around the house. Since the age of 5 he has also been a great help to his grand father, who he is named after, working around the farm. He loves animals and taking care of them. Please don't get the impression that this is a perfect angel, he is like any child sometimes a little mischievous. Sometimes he would ride his bike and completely lose track of time or maybe run off to the lake without telling us for a day of fun.

Even after Misha underwent an operation to have the first tumor removed (he was diagnosed with cancer), he acted like any normal child. He is friends with half of the people who live in our town and received excellent grades in school.

Misha was in remission for two years and we had almost begun not to worry anymore. In February of this year we found another tumor. They began treatment for the cancer but during the treatment Misha kidneys were damaged. We were told that there was almost no chance that Misha would survive this time, but Misha remained strong. He fought the disease and we helped in any way that we could but the tumor and the cancer advanced very quickly. Many specialists said that there was nothing that could be done and it seemed hopeless. In spite of this on August 13 Th, Misha underwent an operation performed by Dr. Valentin Lebedev. The operation was a success. Misha was given an excellent prognosis, a 90% chance that he would beat the cancer. Even with this good news and new sense of hope Misha is still at great risk of not surviving due to the kidney failure. His kidneys are not working properly and he must undergo dialysis. This procedure is not cheap, it costs about $44 per month.

In the beginning when Misha became ill we received assistance at the RDKB from the charity in the name of Alexandr Men, they helped us to buy groceries. After this we received assistance for the dialysis from the Kaliningrad Government, but only for three weeks.

Misha now feels good and the results from the dialysis have improved. Still he needs to constantly go through dialysis since his kidneys are still not working properly. We can afford to pay for some of the costs for this, we are not poor, but we definitely can not afford to pay $1300 per month. We are now asking for your help, please help us. Only you can save our son.

Sergei & Olya Koberzyku
Kaliningrad Region
Town of Ozerki



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