Hello, dear people!

I came to this world only once - just like you.
It is early for me to go!

First of all, I wish you to wake up with gratitude for the new day, because we really do not realize what is waiting for us around the corner and what will manage to mercilessly wipe the smiles off our faces...

My name is Milena. I am 37 years old. I am a mother, a wife, a sister, an aunt, a daughter and a granddaughter.

I dream like all of you, I get excited like all of you, I struggle with obstacles, with difficulties, with adversities.. I fall, I get up, I get up and keep going - just like all of you.

Like any parent, I am anxiously drawing plans with my daughter for a thousand "missions" to accomplish in the years ahead. I gave her my mother's word that I would always be behind her back, that I would always hold her hand, but today.....today I freeze in terror, wondering if I will betray her... It's hard, it's scary, it's brutal to watch your 7 year old girl, hands joined in prayer, asking Santa to send good health to Mommy. To look into your loved one's eyes and see a chilling fear...

Cancer did not knock on our door.
He just walked in.
He came quietly and made himself comfortable...
An uninvited guest in treacherous clothing...

I want to scream. To pound. I want to wake up and have it all turn out to be a bad dream.

For two months I've been seeing doctors with different specialties due to progressive low back pain that started to make me unable to stand straight. No one found anything wrong day after day, and at the same time I was getting more and more tired every day..

After an examination with a neurosurgeon, vascular surgeon, several mammograms, mammography there was no evidence of anything worrisome. Until the day they scheduled a scan and told me it was too late.

On 08.01.2025, after multiple examinations, in Bulgaria, they finally confirmed my diagnosis of cancer originating in the breast, metastasized to the bone, liver and brain. I did not know how to take this news, I did not know what to do. I didn't even get guidance coming out of that door, how to proceed and where to go..

The people who gave me hope for my life are the team at the clinic in Turkey - Anadolu Sağlık Merkezi. They did a PET-CT scan, MRI, multiple other exams, analysis of subsequent biopsies, and despite the advanced stage and hyper aggression of the disease, they were adamant that there was a real chance to get control and live a full life.

I need long and intensive treatment including radiotherapy, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, periodic controls and a range of other treatments. In order to block the metastasis in the brain, they prescribed a cyberknife, which they have at the hospital thankfully.
Good news so far.I'm not giving up. I don't want to give up! For myself, for my daughter, for my loved ones. I will not give up, but I need your help. The estimated cost of therapy is prohibitive for me and my family. It is very hard to hear that there are chances if you can afford them. So I am reaching out to all of you for a little help. I strongly believe that people's lives are not measured in amounts. I want to believe and I believe that we will overcome this obstacle.

I ask you with all my heart to spare a piece of yourself so that I can have a chance to live!