SAVE OUR IVELINA - A CHILD WHO IS DYING IN FRONT OF OUR EYES!

Dear people,

We are the parents of Ivelina - a beautiful 17-year-old girl who is fighting a battle no child deserves.
Ivelina is not laughing. She is not moving. She barely speaks anymore.
She refuses food. She refuses life. Pain and despair break her.

And we... stand by her. Powerless. Sleepless. Heartbroken.
Every day we watch her fade away.
And the only thing still holding us up is the hope that she can be saved.

Ivelina suffers from a rare spinal tumor - myxopapillary ependymoma (WHO Grade 2).

She was diagnosed in 2022.
Since then she has had over 10 major surgeries, multiple cysts, neurological damage, paresis, urinary problems, daily catheterization, constant pain and increasingly severe mobility limitations.

🇩🇪 In Germany they tried everything.

Operations, shunts, radiotherapy, medication - but her condition did not improve.
The last words we heard from the doctors there were:

"We don't know how to stop the cysts. We don't know how to get her mobility back."

🇹🇷 And then HOPE came along - in Turkey.

After consulting with leading specialists in Istanbul, we were offered a new, multidisciplinary approach:
Robotic Physiotherapy,
specialized neurorehabilitation,
neurosurgical and neurological control,
treatment that had never been applied to her before.

They believe there is still a chance for Ivelina to improve.
A chance to smile again.
A chance to believe that her life is not over.

But that hope has a price. And it is unaffordable for us as a family.

After years of struggle, treatments, travel and hospital stays, we've exhausted everything.
All we have left is our love for our child and the belief that we will not be alone in this final battle.