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Friends on the misfortune of Donna help survive the terrible diagnosis

Пережить stroke of fate our countrywoman help not only loved ones but also the companion in misfortune, says Larissa Yashchenko, Board Member of the Disabled at the Cabinet of Ministers of the Council “Donna.”

A woman should be tested at mammology at least once a year. Find the seal in the chest, ask your doctor to establish a diagnosis as early as possible. No need to feel embarrassed to ask the doctor those details that you do not understand. At the reception necessarily hold notebooks and pens. Invite a relative or friend. At a time when a man reported a terrible diagnosis, he can simply stop savvy. Do not agree to go immediately to surgery. Specify the diagnosis from another specialist – perhaps the worst is not true. Women who have endured an operation on the breast cancer, it is necessary to investigate the health of every six months. When limfostaze in the hand is not desirable to raise the cargo more than two kilograms. Finiteness to protect from injury. In puffy hand can not do injections, to measure its pressure. You can wear a special compression sleeve.

IRINA Slobodyanyuk, FACTS: “Two days after the surgery I was discharged home to die.” Once, while working in the country, she felt tingling in his chest. Find the seal, addressed to the doctor. It turned out cancer … It sounded like a sentence. The woman said that to remove only a portion of the right breast, but ochnuvshis from the anesthesia, she discovered with horror: there is no cancer … Postoperative wound gnoilas, a nurse, awkwardly introducing the needle for drainage, damaged artery that runs nearby. To stop the bleeding, had to re-do operation. Less than two days as the patient was discharged home, promising that doctors are bound to watch it …

– This story happened to me, – said President of the All-Ukrainian public organization “Donna”, a member of the Council of the Disabled at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Larisa Yashchenko. – A long time, none of these experts did not visit me, and I realized that I was simply discharged to die. If it were not for the precinct, my doctor did not help her husband, relatives, would have happened. I am more than half a rout: the right side of the body I do not listen. And when was able to stand, the first thing she went to the doctors that I just do not kill. Looked him in the eye and asked why it did with me. Seeing me, the surgeon shouted, causing me a brigade of “psihushki” …

After of the experience Larisa decided to help women who fall into the same trouble. Because many problems. For example, where to find a breast prosthesis, if the one who gave the hospital, turned out to be inconvenient. What, when, after operation otekaet hand to such an extent that the sleeve does not climb. What are the best surgeons to ask if a woman wants to rebuild the breast. And in general, how to live on. By nature an optimist, she and the other was able to instill hope. – Nine years ago a friend of luck going in my apartment – continues to Larisa. – The first of them was this: in the center of prosthetic requested address patients who need a breast prosthesis. Wrote them a letter with a request to respond. Since then, in my apartment so many people visited, even the parquet ster. Neighbors initially kosilis fear is not a sect I have collected. I used to.

Today, “Donna has an office in Kiev heart health. In an organization of approximately 2 400 kievlyanok have 750 – a resident of the metropolitan area. The numbers are changing. Every hour in the Ukraine from breast cancer kills one woman, and every 35 minutes diagnosed with this terrible someone call again … In Ukraine there are 26 offices, “Donna” in the various regions that combine up to 170 thousand women. For example, in the town of Red windows live Valentine, mother of eight children. She underwent surgery about breast cancer. Buried her husband, a son. Older children have grown, three – even children. We have every year to write a petition to local authorities free of charge provided that the family of coal and firewood. And for Valentine’s advice, in turn, called a resident of 32 neighboring villages. In the city of Slavutich, we have organized three times a visiting team of doctors. Surgeon-mammology Professor Valery Tarutino endocrinologist and a few women find breast tumors. Some needed emergency surgery. In our Board in the city have introduced posts oncologist. Slavutich residents no longer need to travel to the survey to the regional center or capital launches cases less. Larisa Alexandrovna to shudder remembers one case. Resident of the Donetsk region on the removed breast cancer tumor. Long kept a high temperature, and on-site surgical suture appeared seal. Local doctors have decided that this metastasis, ie, a relapse of cancer. Women surveyed, Professor Valery Tarutino recommended to operate. “metastasis” has been forgotten during the previous operation and sgnivshaya surgical cloth … The following year, women will be able to receive light synthetic prostheses.

In light of “Donna” are going to women of different professions – singers, actresses, journalists, teachers, – says Larisa. – We will celebrate birthdays, holidays. Today, women no longer ashamed to admit that they have no chest to speak openly about their problems. Friends of misfortune know that the aid – is not only uteret tears. If necessary, we will go to the hospital, reassure the woman before the operation, and the trial will be participating. After receiving a doctor-mammology drink tea, share news, organize the evening of questions and answers, write petitions to the government agencies. One of our beautiful match prominent fiance, collective farm. But it kompleksovala: how he will do when finds out that she has no breasts? Normally, a man: have played a wedding, married. We strive to help children whose mothers have died – one in the military school will arrange those in higher education. If you need to reach the President’s Administration in the Ministry. When I see happy eyes “my” students – happy. Larisa, recently awarded the Order of Princess Olga, recognized: communication distracts from the problems associated with the disease, to live is becoming easier. Megrim shortens life. And best of all you will understand and support friends in misfortune. – Together, we have made that next year the operated patients were free lightweight synthetic prostheses, but in general, a woman has the right to choose those with whom it is convenient – says Larissa Yashchenko. – Free can be used and Compression sleeves with limfostaze in his hand. Today, special clothes to offer patients some 35 foreign and domestic firms, and we can tell what I choose. A woman should always be good because look. We are concerned about not only appearance, but also health. Our office can be examined to obtain advice on physiotherapy, nutrition, clean up the liver, kidneys, vessels – after chemotherapy is necessary.

Professor Tarutino and his colleagues have prepared and delivered to the Verkhovna Rada the law which provides a detailed solution to issues such as prevention of malignant tumors of the breast, as well as the problems of diagnosis and treatment of this disease and those maladies, which lead to it. The most common cause of breast cancer has become. And it today, as the initial stage of cancer can be successfully treated. Perhaps, after the enactment of this law, the lives of women with disabilities will be easier.

During the consultation you can contact the public organization “Donna”, which is located at the address: Str. Vladimirskaya, 29 (Kiev health center). Contact phone 8 (044) 236-95-35 / 8 (093) 495-45-62. Surgeon-mammology conducting a survey on Fridays 13.00.