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Andrei Trofimov

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13.07.2009 Andrei needs our help again to buy a new prosthesis. The service life of the previous one is almost over, and, besides, Andrei has become more than 10 cm taller than before! The new prosthesis costs 700,000 roubles ($22,500).
Otherwise, Andrei is all right. He has graduated from school and entered the institute that he had dreamed of. We hope that he will visit his lectures at this institute wearing a new prosthesis!

24.02.2009 Our old friend Andrei Trofimov visited us today. He came to the hospital for a check-up, and, fortunately, he is fine. This spring he will graduate from school and enter an institute to study law. It is impossible to guess that he has a leg prosthesis: he walks quickly and energetically, and his limp is almost unnoticeable.

7.09.2007 Andrei is back to Moscow for completion of his treatment. The doctors strongly recommend that he should have surgery as soon as possible. Only now we have received the final account for Andrei's prosthesis: it will cost 378,877 roubles ($14,860). During the long time that Andrei's story was on the first page of our Web site (last year), we raised only 66,242 roubles ($2500). We hoped that one of our sponsors would help at that moment, but Andrei's leg did not heal normally at the time, and that chance of surgery was lost. Let us help this wonderful boy together!

30.11.2006 We are completing the fundraising for the benefit of Andrei Trofimov. Given the current state of his leg, it is impossible to make and use a prosthesis. As soon as it becomes possible, the whole sum will be paid: a total of 66,242 roubles (approximately $2500) has arrived at the account of our foundation for Andrei, and Vyacheslav has promised to donate the remaining sum.

They have helped

I have to ask for your help once more. My son Andrei Trofimov needs it to stand on his own legs again. He will manage this with a good prosthesis.
His leg was amputated in February 2006. When the sutures healed, we used a trial prosthesis at our local hospital. A year later, in June 2007, a real prosthesis was installed, but the desired result was not achieved. It is hard to walk with this prosthesis, and flexion and extension in the knee joint are poor. Also, it is just very, very painful. Andrei is 15, and he wants to move like any normal boy of his age, to go to school with his friends (and he is very good in school studies!). His life is just beginning, and his destiny depends on you. Please help us buy a suitable up-to-date prosthesis!

Yours gratefully,
Elena Trofimova
September 7, 2007

My son's name is Andrei Trofimov. I am his mother, and I am asking for your help.
Andrei is 14 years old. Before his disease, he was a healthy kid. He was interested in basketball and other activities. He was always lively and busy.
But he has been under treatment at the RCCH for four years. He was first admitted here in 2002 with Ewing's sarcoma of the left femoral bone. After 15 courses of chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy, he had an operation in 2003: the tumor was removed and a bone graft was placed instead. But six months later, the graft began to dissolve and a fracture of the femoral bone took place. It was no longer possible to restore the bone.
An endoprosthesis was installed in 2005. But several months later, there were problems again: no engraftment of the endoprothesis took place and fistulae began to form.
There was another surgery on January 26, 2006. At first glance, it was successful. But complications began on the third day, and the last hope to preserve Andrei's left leg vanished. The leg was amputated on February 9, 2006.
And presently the child needs a prosthesis to have a normal active life, just as all his friends.
We hope that you will support us in this trouble.

Thank you very much!
Elena Trofimova
18.02.2006

The doctor's comment

The prosthesis will cost about 200,000 roubles ($7100). The exact sum will be known after the necessary measurements are made at the Ortho-Cosmos company (the same company that is now making a prosthesis for Alexei Shorokhov). For these measurements, Andrei's leg must be completely healed after the surgery, and then manufacture of the prosthesis should quickly begin.

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