Together we can! Let's help Chrissy against Cancer!

Hello, people with good hearts! My name is Hristina Barashka, I am 39 years old, from Plovdiv! I am married , to a wonderful man and we have 2 great girls! Nicole, 16, and Elia, 9! They are my life , my pride and my meaning! Everything was wonderful , until one unfortunate day ! A day like all the others , but it didn't feel good. Started having a nutty sore throat , that wouldn't and didn't go away ! I drank all kinds of medicines and antibiotics , but the pain continued ! So on 22 September 2022 I had to be admitted to St George's hospital in St George's. Plovdiv! Despite intravenous antibiotics for 10 days, this nasty pain never stopped! The doctors next decision was to do a laryngoscopy !

On it were seen cysts , in their words! This scared me a lot ! What cysts , what are they talking to me about , is this dangerous ?

Of course they took a biopsy ! And the waiting began ! The days passed , and I did not know where I was , and what was happening ! And lo and behold on the 20th of October there were the results !

Results ! Results I couldn't believe ! The doctors told me that I had aLaryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma , stage 4, with disseminations in two lymph nodes on the right side of my neck, and a suspected lymph node to the lung!!!! What they told me!!! I have cancer ! And so serious ! I was in shock ! I didn't know what to do ! What about my children ! What about my husband! What was happening ! They all need me ! I was dreaming how soon , my eldest daughter will become a graduate , then a student , will get married , will have grandchildren ! And now I don't know how much I have left! I had lost my mother to cancer! It ruined me!

I passed the oncology committee , which decided that they would only do chemotherapy!

Scared of the experience I had with my mothers in Bulgaria, the long road I had with her, the trials and tribulations and eventually the cancer taking over her body. And going to Turkey but unfortunately too late. I did not dare to repeat this time , and the treatment in Plovdiv . It was too soon , my disappointment with the doctors in Bulgaria and the death of my dear mother ! So I didn't hesitate and left for Thrace ! I had to do everything I could to try to save my life! To be a mother and a wife!

I gathered all possible means and went to Turkey, Istanbul , Ajibadem Atakent Hospital ! Immediately I went to see Prof. Ibrahim Iuldaz oncologist , and with prof. I was also treated by Fulla Ağaoğlu! They did five scanner and tomography ! The result was confirmed !

The amount of the initial offer for mynecessary emergency treatment amounted to 17 290 euro , or 33 888lv ! An amount that is unaffordable for me, my family , even my relatives !

I did not have time to wait and started treatment!

Immediately I was assigned 4 intensive courses of chemotherapy to start with! The situation was quite serious! I also started 30 courses of radiotherapy on my throat along with 5 more chemo treatments every week! Unfortunately the side effects of the radiotherapy were horrible! My throat would burn , and I couldn't take anything through it! So even before starting the therapies , I had surgery , where they put a PEK stoma on my stomach , so I could eat through it ! This happened on 06.01.23. I had to put food and water through it 6 times every day ! In the beginning the food was specialized , but eventually my indicators started to drop and I had to feed myself with normal food ! Taking 6 times a day , I blend food and feed with a syringe , through a tube and into the stomach ! It is a horrible experience ! Not being able to put anything in your mouth ! And so for 50 days I was in Istanbul, all alone ! In a strange place , not understanding anyone or anything ! Scared , suffering and alone ! But it was over , on 28.02 the radiotherapy ended ! I came back to Bulgaria! Finally to my family ! It was hard for my children to watch me , eating like that, with that tube coming out of my belly, but I had no other option ! I can't describe my feelings in words ! The funds needed to continue my treatment are 17 290euros ! I need your support!

That's why I turn to you , good people ! Please help me ! Please help me to be a mother , to be a wife , to be a woman ! Without you I can't pay for this expensive treatment! I can't go on living ! I believe that there are so many good people , and I believe that I will be able to heal, with your help!