Жизнь. To be continued ...
AND SASHA CAPTURED.
When you do not give up, help comes from others.
The house where Elena Lapina lives with her twelve-year-old daughter Sasha and mother stands right next to Kiev’s Vasilkovskaya metro station. By today’s standards - almost the city center. And the house looks, as they say, prestigious. That’s just living in one of his apartments trouble.
Before going to first grade, Sasha Lapina went to her grandmother in the village for the summer. She returned to Kyiv refreshed and tanned. Classes began, and with them a new, already school, life. And my mother was all right. Elena worked at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where she still works, preparing her PhD thesis. However, they lived with their daughter (Elena and her husband divorced when Sasha was three years old) in a dormitory.
The trouble came suddenly. Sasha began to fade before his eyes, lost weight dramatically. She asked to drink all the time. The diagnosis, made in the sixth city hospital, struck Elena like thunder - type 1 diabetes, severe diabetes, insulin dependence. Sasha was placed under a drip, every two hours - a blood test. Elena was very scared, but the doctors made her feel, brought books about diabetes and said: “Read, study, you start a different life. Mothers are discharged from us by nurses, endocrinologists, and nutritionists. ” And Elena, without five minutes, began to study new sciences as a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. The candidate’s dissertation had to be forgotten for a while.
After the hospital, the girl’s condition improved, but then the symptoms returned. Then they were treated in Kiev’s Ohmadet. In general, Elena’s reviews of all the doctors she dealt with were only positive: “Everyone gave their phones, told to call at any time of the day or night. And I’m calling. " It is good that the work allowed to do with a home computer - it was necessary to be constantly near the daughter. Even at school, while Sasha was in class, Elena was waiting for her in the hallway, measuring her blood sugar and giving her injections. So she stayed in school all the first class and the beginning of the second, until Sasha said: “Mom, go home. I can handle it myself. " Sasha, who is sitting next to us, proudly adds: "And Sasha did it." She was not yet nine years old, and she was already injecting herself with insulin.
The life of a diabetic is a complete control. For example, before eating, you need to measure your blood sugar, see the table of how many carbohydrates a serving contains, and enter the appropriate dose of insulin. I ask: "It turns out that you can not intercept anything on the street, even if you see something tasty?". Sasha answers sadly, but with a touch of pride for his willpower: “No. We have to be patient. " I listen to her and think that sick children grow up early. Although they still remain children. So Sasha tells me about some innocent school tricks.
And it’s very good that she sees her life that way. But the reality is still different. Sugar levels should be measured not only during the day but also at night. Especially since Sasha changed it by leaps and bounds. That’s when the doctors advised Elena to put Sasha with an insulin pump. The girl shows me a medical mini-computer attached to my mobile phone-sized belt that helps calculate the dose of insulin and injects it into my blood. The thing is good, but it’s expensive. On the salary of a researcher, even a candidate (Elena defended her dissertation, despite Sasha’s illness) plus the pension of a mother who moved to Kyiv to help her daughter, plus child allowance, you can’t buy a pump.
With the help of Ufond, they managed to raise money, and since 2012, Sasha’s life has changed. For example, when there were only injections, you could not eat bananas, grapes, or even white bread - the injections did not have time to cover the rise in sugar levels. The pump has time. And you can lead an active lifestyle with her - Sasha and her mother twice went to a specialized sanatorium in Mirgorod. It got better with housing. When the Academy of Sciences allocated apartments, Lapin, as a priority, received a one-room office. However, it is still not easy for Elena - especially now, when consumables for the pump have risen sharply. I had to turn to Ufond again this year. They helped.
I ask the question: "Is there optimism?" Elena corrects: "There is endurance and willpower." Sasha intervenes again: "And I have endurance and willpower." Elena continues: "And optimism is that your child feels normal, and you know how to help him." The column is led by Sergey Semenov Photo Roman Betsenko
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