Katya Savelyeva's parents plead for help 18.10.00 We have all been very sad to see our favourite Katya Savelieva released from the Hospital – due to a large number of blasts it proved impossible to carry out a marrow transplant operation here. She will undergo a palliative treatment in Ulyanovsk Hospital. All the necessary medicine and support materials have been purchased. 7.03.00 Lisa from America gathered $7,000 more for Katya Savelyeva. There is now enough money to buy all the medicine she needs for the bone marrow transplant. Next week, Katya will undergo the last treatment of chemotherapy, and, when she recovers (about the end of April, beginning of May), she will undergo an auto-trasplant of bone marrow. The Kievsky family donated 500 roubles for treatment of Katya Savelyava. 24.02.00 On the 12th of February, the Kievsky family from Ekaterinburg donated 650 roubles to buy medicine for Katya Savelieva. 28.01.00 Andrey donated $1,000 for medicine for Katya Savelieva. Vitaly from Haifa donated $200 for Katya Savelieva. 17.01.00 Aleksander transferred 30,000 roubles for medicine for Katya Savelyeva. 9.12.99 Eduard gave 200 USD to pay for Katya Savelyeva's stay in hospital rest home until the next course of chemotherapy. 5.12.99 Andrei donated 500 USD for Katya Savelieva. 1.12.99 Aleks and him friends from USA donated 150 USD for Katya Savelieva. 26.11.99 Aleksander donated 100 USD for Katya Savelieva. 19.11.99 After the course of chemical therapy Katya Savelieva reached the remission in her principal disease. Soon she will go through typification , so that the doctor's get to know whether marrow of Katya' s brother is suitable for transplantation. If the marrow of Katya's brother matches then doctor's will go for operation. If the marrow does not match Katya will have auto immune marrow transplantation. Doctors estimate Katya's chances as relatively high. 15.11.99 Piotr donated 100 USD for medicines for Katya Savelieva. 12.11.99 Edward donated 200 USD for Katya Savelieva. 8.11.99 Vitaly from Haifa transferred 200 USD , the Kievsky's family from Ekaterinburg transferred 300rbls for Katya Savelieva. 5.11.99 Irina Mikhailovna from Germany sent 1000 USD for Katya Savelieva. 27.10.99 Polina donated 200 USD for Katya Savelieva. 22.10.99 Raissa Ivanovna transferred 100 rubles for Katya Savelyeva. 19.10.99 Eduard gave 200 USD, Dmitri from USA transferred 300 USD for Katya Savelyeva. 11.10.99 Tatyana Vladimirovna bought another box of Neupogene for Katya. 8.10.99 Tatyana Vladimirovna bought medicine for Katya: antibiotic Tienam for 800 USD, Vancomicine for 180 USD and one box of Neupogene. Dmitri gave 100 USD for Katya Savelyeva. Katya was born in the town of Sumgait of Azerbajan republic. After the events in Nagorny Karabakh, our family had to flee from there. Now we live in the Stavropol region, in a small village close to the town Budennovsk. We work on a collective farm; the mother is a cook, the father is a tractor driver. The collective farm has gone bankrupt, so we have not been getting any money for a long time; they pay us our wages in food. We live off our husbandry, and it is not a prosperous life. We have two children, Katya is the elder. In summer of 1999 Katya fell seriously ill, she was diagnosed with throat angina and couldn't fully recover after her illness. The girl was examined in the hospitals of Budennovsk and Stavropol, but they couldn't establish a definite diagnosis. In the end, the doctors sent us to Moscow, to the Pediatric Clinical Hospital, where we are at the moment. Only there she has been finally diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukosis. The girl's condition grew worse. Katya is being treated; she will need the transplantation of bone marrow. We hope that Katya's brother would be able to be the donor. The medicine necessary for the transplantation are very expensive, 15,000 USD; we do not have such money, so we are asking for help. We scaresely managed to collect money to travel to Moscow, but we are not able to pay for the treatment. Katya is 10, she is a lively and merry girl, and she does want to live. Katya also needs donors of trombocytes. Please help us save our girl's life! Nadezhda and Nikolai Savelyev.