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Hello!
My name is Olga. I am 10 years old, and I will start 4th grade in fall. My hobbies are drawing, flower decoration, origami and cross-stitching.
On June 20th I started feeling unwell and got a nosebleed. Even ambulance doctors, whom we called every day, could not stop it.
Finally, I ended up at intensive care unit of Children's hospital No.1 where I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Then I started developing complications: my kidneys quit working and I was put on an artificial kidney. At the intensive care unit they have very good equipment and caring doctors who gave me new life. From ICU I was transferred to a room in a unit.
My condition has improved now, but to all my problems, I developed diabetes and I now need a glucometer and test strips to measure sugar in my blood.
I am being brought up by my grandmother. Our financial means are very modest, as my grandmother left her job to stay with me. We really need your help with buying medications.
I will be very grateful to everyone who responds!

Olya Bogatova
Home address:
198152, St. Petersburg,
Ul. Primakova, d. 16, kv. 20
Contact phones:
+7 (911) 810-02-30,
+7 (911) 156-44-31

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Update as of August 23, 2009. Olya had serious complications due to stones in her kidneys. She is now undergoing another course of high-dosage chemotherapy. The girl was recommended unrelated bone marrow transplantation. In the next few days, she will be typed, and the results will allow determining whether Olya has matching donors at the international registry. Olya's family still needs financial support.

Update as of November 12, 2009. A decision was made to initiate a donor search for Olya. Therefore, we need to raise 15,000 euros for the donor search and 2,500 euros for delivery of transplant. Please help!

Update as of January 12, 2010. Olya feels well. She is starting a planned course of maintenance therapy. The main course of treatment is completed, and Olya achieved remission. She still needs therapy with Noxafil.

Update as of January 26, 2010. Happy World fund raised the rest of the money for the donor search and delivery of transplant for Olya. Therefore, as of now, the fundraising for the donor search and delivery of transplant is over, but Olya still needs Noxafil that costs 80,000 rubles per bottle. Each bottle lasts her a week.

Update as of January 28, 2010. Olya started a scheduled cycle of maintenance therapy. On January 27th she had a lumbar puncture and bone marrow puncture. Due to Dexamethasone therapy, her blood sugar rose and she was assigned a sugar-restrictive diet. Olya's favorite foods are not disallowed and she is very sad.
She also wants to learn to play a guitar and would be very happy if someone could give her the instrument.
Olya's grandmother was hospitalized due to hypertonic crisis and Olya is looking after by her mother.

Update as of February 28, 2010. The last month, Olya suffered from worsening of stones in her ureters. She had surgery to install shunts in ureters and she now feels better. Olya was able to start another cycle of maintenance therapy.
She still has fungal infection in her lungs, and CT scan even showed some worsening. Olya's tissue was collected for testing. A different infection may be involved as well. Olya needs to continue Noxafil therapy: 1 bottle lasts her 5 days.
The search for the bone marrow donor is ongoing.

Update as of April 15, 2010. Olya is recovering after another chemotherapy course. She had serious complications – kidney bleeding – which the doctors managed to overcome. Fortunately the last lung tomography and blood counts allowed the doctors to cancel antifungal drugs, and Olya does not need Noxafil any longer. Many thanks to all who are helping Olya, all volunteers, blood donors and supporters!
Olya's grandmother

Update as of May 28, 2010. On May 26th Olya was taken to Children's hospital No.1 with temperature of 40C. She has problems with her kidneys. Olya is undergoing tests. The ultrasound did not show any stones in her kidneys.

Update as of July 6, 2010. Olya is now at home. Every Tuesday she comes to the unit for tests. If the results are good, she goes home. Olya and her grandmother are very happy that they don't need to stay in the hospital all the time. Olya is missing her friends, however, as they all left on vacation. So she spends a lot of time making up fairy tales.
Olya really wants to go out and visit Krestovsky isle, but they cannot afford taxi and she is now allowed to use public transport yet. Olya got a guitar as a gift. She now wants to learn to play it. But for now, they have not found a guitar teacher.
Olya and her grandmother will be very happy if someone could give Olya guitar lessons in their home. They have a second instrument for the tutor. Before she got sick, Olya really wanted to go to music school. Her teachers were noting her perfect pitch and strong vocal ability.

Update as of August 30, 2010. Olya feels well. She is getting ready for the new school year. Olya is undergoing maintenance therapy as planned and regularly comes to the hospital for tests and injections.

Update as of October 24, 2010. Olya is still on maintenance therapy. She feels good. She is spending the whole autumn at a health resort in Solnechny with other children from acute leukemia unit of Children's City Hospital 1 and she is taking school classes there too.
Olya likes handicrafts very much, she makes roses of maple leaves. Unfortunately Olya's mother is in hospital now for a long-term treatment course. Olya's grandma is with her now.
On Tuesday Olya's catheter will be removed. She will be taken to hospital from the health resort by ambulance, but there will be no transportation back to the place. Unfortunately Olya is not eligible for the social taxi service. We will appreciate the help of a volunteer with a car!

Update as of November 24, 2010. Olya's catheter was removed, now she is at home but in a few days will return with her grandmother to the sanatorium Solnechniy and will stay there till the end of November. She will continue to stay on the maintenance therapy in sanatorium.

Update as of February 15, 2011. Olya is now at home. Once a week she goes to the hospital for tests. Olya is schooled at home. She tries to stay positive, but she misses contact with her peers.

Update as of March 28, 2011. Olya is getting maintenance therapy. She has undergone a complete medical exam on a day-patient basis. The results and recommendations will be known in a few days.
Olya feels lonely and wants to socialize more. Her granny hopes that the girl will feel better at a convalescent center, where she will go in May.

Update as of February 2, 2012. Olya has been at the Infectious Unit of Children's Hospital No.1 since Monday due to a cold with high fever. She is already feeling better and temperature is gone.

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