Hello, dear people with good hearts! My name is Velislava, 32 years old from the town of. Dobrich! I am a mother of three wonderful children- Maria 7, Maya 5 and Peter 2. I have a wonderful family and a loving husband! I had everything! Until one horrible day came and the diagnosis of BREAST CANCER WITH CANCER IN THE LYMPH NUMBERS, 4 STAGES.

And the 123 634BGN I needed for expensive and life-saving treatment in Turkey! The amount that is unaffordable for our family!

It all started so innocuously, swollen lymph nodes on my neck, which I didn't pay much attention to at first in January 2022. We still ran blood tests, everything was fine. With the kids around me every day was a madhouse, and so another 2 months passed, but the lymph nodes were still there, along with a lump in my left armpit.I started going round for tests appointed by a haematologist. Again bloods, x-ray of lungs, ultrasound of mammary glands, of abdominal organs, laryngoscopy, and everything seemed fine again, except for the strange shape of the lymph nodes on my neck. Then it was the turn of the first biopsy of the lymph node on the left side of my neck on 28.06.2022 in St. Marina Hospital, Varna!

The result shocked me! I couldn't believe it, so they told me I had cancer!!! To me the mother of three children that the doctors couldn't believe I had because they said I couldn't be a mother! WHY did GOD give them to me and now he wants to take me away from them!

Followed by the first five scan on 07/26/2022. There they saw the small 3mm breast mass, affected lymph nodes in my chest, armpit and left side of my neck!

I couldn't wait for the commission in Varna and immediately moved to the town of. I had to go to Pleven, to a private hospital Heart and Brain. They immediately took action. Two new biopsies followed, one from the breast and one from a lymph node on the armpit to be sure of the diagnosis! So on 17.08.2022 I received a call to tell me the diagnosis - C50.4 Upper outer quadrant of breast CARCINOMA GLANDUALE MAME.ST.POST BIOPSIAM. META LN CERVICALIS(COLI)(C77.0)META LN AXILLAE.META LN MEDIASTINUM (C77.1). Stage pT1aN3Cm1 - IV. HER2+. Ki67 60-80%.

Treatment started. Chemotherapy together with target therapy - with Dotaxel, Perjeta and Herceptin, on 05.09.22! I was absent often, the kids were taking it very hard. They cried constantly but I believed I was in the right direction! I did allergic reactions and what not. It took 3 courses, I did a simple scan, they said the cells were responding and everything was going fine! We did 3 more courses , the last one was on 12/30/2022 and then followed up with a regular scan again. I don't know why the radiologists hadn't read my neck, and I believed everything was fine, if they hadn't read it then they were gone! YES BUT NO! They sent me off not consulting with a surgeon, supposedly for surgery. But the doc didn't want to undertake one without a new pet scanner.

And on 31.01.23 was the second PET scanner in the city. Sofia in Ajibadem hospital.

It turned out that the disease was not only still there but had PROGRESSED. There were now many more infected lymph nodes on the left, and they had transferred to the right side of my neck! A new neck biopsy followed, the fourth on the count because the doctors didn't know what was happening or why( 12.02.2023) the result was that the cancer had changed status and was no longer Her2+ but Her2-. They explained to me that the tumor was heterogeneous and that's why it had changed. A change in treatment followed. We started hormone therapy with Ribociclib, Letrozole and Zoladex!

On 02/24/23 I started with the first injection of Zoladex, on 03/07/23 I started Letrozole and on 03/17/23 Ribocyclib! In early April my breast along with all the affected lymph nodes swelled up. They became hard and painful to the touch. Immediately went for a check up in Pleven where they said it was the body's reaction to the treatment. Of course I had already done several labs, new tests on the biopsies. And in Varna with Kanchev, and in the hospital of hematology in Sofia, with prof. Genova, in Pleven with prof. Popovska, I did consultations with prof. Timcheva - oncologist. All of them confirmed the diagnosis, and I, calm that it would pass, continued to endure the pain, gritted my teeth and did not show anyone around me that I had a problem! A very small circle of people knew about my diagnosis, I didn't want anyone to feel sorry for me! I AM STRONG!

BUT every day I felt that something was wrong! I could feel everything getting bigger, I could feel this tiny tumor that no one could see , growing! On 01.05.23 my breast was cut open, a wound opened up out of nowhere! Reaction from treatment these were the words, it will pass! BUT IT DIDN'T PASS! The pain was becoming intolerable, I was crying constantly. Even my children were no longer impressed. What's going on, mommy is crying, they passed by and kept playing.It was a constant daily routine! After another consultation with the oncologists from Pleven, they stopped one of my tablets for 10 days while I went to see them. During these 10 days I made new consultations, again with prof. Timcheva, who already said something was wrong! Another drug should be included to suppress the more aggressive component. But in Pleven , they kept on their scheme. I made a consultation with prof. Nenkov - surgeon in Pleven. Varna. And he said that in his opinion the treatment was not adequate. I did an online consultation with a Turkish prof. Serkan Keskin! And his opinion was that something was wrong. All this happened in one week from Monday to Thursday. I was already on painkillers, which I couldn't do without, but they stopped working. On Friday, 19.05.23, I was back in Pleven, quickly prescribed the tablets and to go. BUT I couldn't leave, I started all over again explaining how bad I felt, how I couldn't sleep, how much it hurt, of course I couldn't stop the emotions in me and I cried.And what happened I was prescribed 5 boxes of strong painkillers, told to take the tablets and after 21 days, after another 3 course was over to go for a simple scan.

But I also had another consultation booked which seemed to come out of nowhere. During the week a distant acquaintance of mine had seen my post. She called me, told me about their ordeal, and as if by some miracle, these doctors who were helping her family were coming to Bulgaria together for the first time, that very week, and there was an appointment available! And on 20.05.23 I was there consulting with Turkish professors Ibrahim Yıldız oncologist and prof. Jihan Uras - surgeon from Ajibadem Atakent University Hospital!

On reviewing my papers and seeing me, they were in complete agreement and adamant that I should go to Turkey as a matter of urgency for new breast and neck lymph node biopsies and a new PET scan! They said I didn't have any time to wait and they would do their best to get me on the schedule in two days and make things happen! I couldn't wait, I did my pap smear on Monday, they sent me an offer, we did the impossible to raise 12,000lbs and we left for Turkey on Sunday night!

On Tuesday 23.05.23 I had 2 new biopsies, blood tests and a consultation with prof. Uras. On 25.05.23 I also had five scanners done, with further tests. On 26.05.23 there was already a result from the third PET scan!

A VERY BIG PROGRESSION IN THE DISEASE! INCREASE OF AFFECTED LYMPH NODES, APPEARANCE OF NEW SITES, INCREASE OF TUMOR SIZE ALREADY TO 3CM. AND PROBABLE RASSAE ALREADY IN THE BRAIN!!!

The words of prof. Yıldız were that I am a VERY COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED CASE! And if I had continued with this treatment, things would not have ended well! I had deteriorated a lot in less than 5 months and no one paid attention to me! It was a painful decision by the Bulgarian doctors!

There was no time to wait, the very next day was the first chemotherapy I was prescribed. As a matter of urgency I had to start being treated until all the results came out. I have to have an MRI of my brain, a gastroscopy because it is suspected to have started in my stomach although it is not visible on the scanner. I'll have them done in Bulgaria, but everything else I need there! NGS test which is very important!Chemotherapy together with immunotherapy and many more tests!On which depends my life and happiness of my children to grow up with their mother by their side!

The amount needed for this life-saving treatment is 62,300 Euros or 123,634BGN which is an absolutely unaffordable amount for our family!

Please, friends, acquaintances and all people with good hearts! I beg you more than anything in the world- HELP me! I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COPE WITHOUT YOU! I HAVE ONE DREAM TO SEE MY CHILDREN GROW UP, BECOME STUDENTS, GRADUATES, START FAMILIES!