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Anna Zhmuriy Undergoing Treatment, Studying and Dreaming

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Thursday, November 22, six-year old Anna Zhmuriy finished the second phase of the first chemotherapy protocol.
 
 
Yesterday, when our volunteers visited Anna, she was looking and feeling good, she was active and she told us with great joy about her achievements in drawing and reading. She told us about her dolls and she shared with us her plans for the future.
 
 

Yet, the first chemotherapy was hard on our girl. On Thursday, Anna was weak and she complained about pain in her legs. Anna’s blood test results were poor, and she urgently needed blood transfusion, but the doctors could not bring down her fever, and the blood transfusion is not possible with fever. Only Friday morning, the fever went down to 37.5C, and the blood transfusion was done, and  Anna was administer  Filgrastim as well.  

 

 
 
Anna began feeling better right away, she ate lunch that made her mom happy, and she promised that she would eat dinner. Beginning September Anna’s appetite was poor; she refused to eat meat that she needs so much for improving blood test results. Now Anna and her mom are glad that doctors allowed Anna to eat apples and oranges that Anna likes so much.
 
 
A two week break between protocols is ahead. Because of the poor blood tests results Anna needs antibiotics. Anna hopes that she can go home to Kalush for a week. Her greatest desire is to see her cousin Julia. Lately Anna could not have many visitors and she could talk to Julia only on the phone. Anna misses her parakeet Asia  that Julia is taking care of now.
 
 
In spite of being in the hospital, Anna loves to dance and sing songs from her favorite cartoons about Barbie and musicians of Bremen. Just like all the girls, Anna loves to look at herself in the mirror, and recently she told her mom that in hospital she lost so much weight that she can become a ballerina when she grows up.
 
 
 
Anna’s mother told us that only six months ago when Anna graduated from kindergarten, she said that she wanted to be a hair stylist.  Then Zhmuriy family was happy preparing Anna for first grade, but it was not Anna’s destiny to go to school with other children because she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
 
 
 
 
From the beginning of  August Anna is in hospital all the time.
Behind are three months of the first chemotherapy protocol; ahead are two more protocols. What Anna lived through and saw in the hospital made a great impact on Anna. She changed, matured, and looks at the world differently. Now Anna wants to become a nurse when she grows up because she wants to help children just like the hospital nurse  Alla Leonidovna whom Anna loves a lot and wants to be just like her. 
  
 
 
Vladislav Bodnarchiuk, a three year old boy, is  in the same hospital ward. It happens that they argue and refuse to share toys, but most of the time they get along and play together a lot. They do not play like healthy children: they play doctors and cancer patients. They administer chemotherapy to the dolls, take blood tests, tell the dolls not to cry and convince them that soon the treatment will be over and they can go home. 
 
 
Андрій Грабчук, БФ "Ти-Ангел"