Among the many diseases, there is one that everyone perceives as a sentence. This is cancer. Doctors joke: people are afraid of oncology, but they are dying of vascular and heart diseases. Why is this diagnosis so frightening to patients? The answer is simple - the inevitability of radical operations, the most difficult treatment and the unpredictability of the result. The disease manifests itself when vital organs are affected, and the prospect of a positive outcome is extremely small.
Insidious disease
The Nizhny Novgorod region recently took the eighth place in the country in the incidence of oncology. Natalya Lebedeva, a resident of the city of Balakhna, got into sad statistics - a young mother and a happy wife. Eight years of carefree, full of joy of life ended abruptly in 2014. It was then that a woman abruptly lost her ability to move. Doctors announced the presence of a spinal cord tumor pressing on the nerve roots.
Neither in Nizhny Novgorod, nor in Moscow, doctors were able to determine the nature of the tumor by the results of a biopsy. They performed an operation to remove it, reinforcing part of the vertebrae with metalwork. It didn’t get better, on the contrary, the woman was even worse. Someone would have folded their hands from suffocating despair, but not Natalya Lebedeva. Cancer corroded her body, and she, unaware of the insidiousness of the disease, was looking for a way out. Together with her husband, she flew to Israel, where she did not have the strength to reach the doctor’s office. The spouse recognized the diagnosis: lymphoma, stage 4. Surgery on the spinal cord was absolutely impossible.
The beginning of the struggle
Israeli doctors gave hope: a bone marrow transplant is possible , five million rubles are needed. Relatives, numerous friends began to search for funds, and Natalia Lebedeva began the struggle for life. One chemotherapy course followed another, but she did not give up. Fourteen of them were required. No one knows the limit of human capabilities, but this is beyond understanding.
Local media wrote about a courageous woman. Leaflets appeared on the Internet asking for fundraising and opening a charity account. A friend who was trained in Moscow wrote in the program "Let them talk." Nizhny Novgorod artists held a free concert in support of their countrywoman, at which they organized a fair - the sale of things. The first hundreds of thousands of rubles began to flow into the account. Not without meeting with real scammers. A charity fund offered a loan in the amount of the necessary amount for the operation at unimaginable interest and a pledge of property inherited by the child. The spouses were not ready to sacrifice the future son.
Community “Live Healthy!” Natalya Lebedeva "VKontakte"
In search of funds, the idea of creating an open group in a social network was born. So, the page “It’s great to live !!!” History of Natalia Lebedeva. ” Friends convinced the young woman to tell her story so that people would take more care of their health and not feel lonely if a disaster happened to them. This caused an instant response: 4707 people became members of the group. Indifferents extended a helping hand, organizing fairs of good for fundraising, supporting with a word, advice.
The site contains goods for sale: original hand-made items, clothes not matching the size, theater tickets. All the proceeds at first went to a young woman for treatment. But she died in January 2016. Natalya Lebedeva is undefeated, her friends say. They called the woman an angel who will keep those who stayed and in need of help.
Instead of a will
Evelyn Lauder, who devoted her life to the fight against cancer, did not become in the USA. She is considered the author of the symbol of this confrontation - pink ribbons. Hue means a problem with the mammary glands. Similar symbols of different colors now exist for all types of oncology. Natalia Lebedeva had to hold a purple ribbon in her hands in order to pass it as a baton to those who continue to fight.
Its phenomenon is that oncological diseases develop against the background of immunosuppression of the body. Patients often fall into despair and need the support of others. Despite the severe pains and lack of ability to move around, the young woman retained the desire to live, communicate, and help others. The message line is full of leaflets with calls for help to those who have an unequal fight against cancer.