Vadik Markunin
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31.01.2009 Vadim Markunin and
Sasha Laktionov have arrived
at the hospital for a check-up. They are looking and feeling fine. Vadim will get go to school
this autumn, and Sasha is graduating from school and getting prepared for enrollment to
an institute.
18.06.2006 Vadik Markunin is back
from Germany. He is feeling and looking fine. The doctors are satisfied
with his conditon. They have even allowed him to go home at last, and
his mother Veta is just radiant with happiness. Four years have passed
since the beginning of his treatment...
5.05.2006 News from Germany: Vadik's condition is much better.
Skin GVHD is not manifested now. The dose of hormonal drugs has been
reduced by one-half, and the boy is feeling all right. But the doctors
do not yet tell us when the treatment is to end.
15.12.2005 Vadik and his mother have left for Germany today.
Their departure was shown by the Vremechko TV program, which has
helped in raising the money for Vadik's treatment. We also thank
the German consulate, which, just as ever, has quickly and efficiently
prepared all the documents required for the visit to Germany.
9.11.2005 Dear friends, the entire sum for Vadik's treatment
(including travel, board and lodging) has been raised. We thank Alexander,
the Vremechko TV program, and visitors of our Web site. Vadik will be treated
at the Freiburg University Clinic in Germany.
They have helped:
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Vadik is our little son. He has just turned 4. He has spent all his short life
at hospital, and he thinks that the hospital is his home. He also has
a real home, where his loving grandparents are waiting for him, but
he doesn't remember it.
He fell ill almost at birth. He had his first blood transfusion at the age
of two months, and this is how our hospital life started. We came to Moscow
in May 2002, when Vadik was 7 months old. The doctors told us his diagnosis,
and it was like a death sentence: aplastic anemia.
The boy needed daily transfusions of blood components. He would die without
them, because he had frequent bleedings. With his zero platelet count
and low hemoglobin, he could have a hemorrhage any moment. The doctors
treated him for two years and did all they could, but there was no result.
Vadik felt worse and worse. His bone marrow just couldn't work. The
last possible way out offered to us was unrelated marrow transplantation
(because Vadik has no brother or sister of his own). We risked it in March
2004, and the miracle happened: there was engraftment, and the donor
marrow started working! Now Vadik's blood counts are just as they should
be in any healthy kid. But his condition is still poor. Now his main
program is graft versus host disease (GVHD). He has grave form of
skin GVHD. It is manifested as various rashes and dermatoses. Vadik's
skin is all dry and cracked, peels off layer after layer. His head
is all covered with a kind of crust. And it all itches unbearably.
All our last year has been like this.
We have tried everything to fight this condition. Kind people helped
us in buying expensive drugs and various ointments. Vadik has several
courses of chemotherapy, but all in vain. His skin is still peeling
and itching. Because of damaged skin, he is always in danger of
infection and sepsis. To alleviate his condition, our little boy
has to take hormones in large doses. But these hormones retard
his growth and affect the bone tissue.
We have already received all kinds of treatment that are possible
in Russia, but with no result. We were recommended treatment in
a foreign clinic, where the experience of marrow transplantations
and struggle with the GVHD is much greater. But the required sum of
money is just incredible for us: at least 20,000 euro. We will
never be able to raise it ourselves.
Please help us! Please don't leave us alone in our trouble! Please respond!
We are in despair. This is Vadik's last chance for recovery.
With hope and respect,
Veta and Andrei Markunins
24.10.2005
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