! URGENT CALL FOR HELP ! If no action is taken by the 19th of July and Milena does not take medicine, she may become paralyzed !

Hello ! This is Milena Vassileva. She is 49 years old, from the town of. She's from Yambol. She is a mother of three children. She was diagnosed with Lower Spastic Paraplegia. The disability of the lower limbs reaches 100%, so she is dependent on care - self-care is impossible.

The family is experiencing financial difficulties. Her husband is working abroad to be able to cover the family's basic needs and some of the costs required for treatment. Milena is cared for by their daughter and son, who are only 15 and 18 years old.

She has been in this condition since May of 2023. Last spring she underwent routine surgery at our hospital in town. Burgas, in order to treat cervical disc herniation in the C5, C6, C7 departments. Seemingly everything was fine, but on 24.04. 2023 he was admitted to the Burgas hospital again. There is a red bone marrow effusion in the C5-C6 departments. It was treated as an infection, a slight improvement was observed and Milena was discharged. On 02.05.2023 she was admitted to the same hospital in an extremely deteriorated condition. An MRI was performed - there was Quadripyramidal syndrome with plexus in the lower limbs. Urgent decompression was required to remove the epidural compression. She was discharged but not cured.

Milena has 100% TLC because both her lower limbs (spastic paraplegia) and upper limbs (paresis) are now affected. After consultations in another hospital, Milena was sent to Turkey, to Memorial Hospital. There they give her and her relatives hope for the improvement of her condition. Surgery was performed and a Baclofen pump was inserted. The Baclofen injection therapy was innovative and improved Milena's condition - she was able to stand up on her own with the help of her hands. The problem is that this therapy is not covered by Health Insurance and is not practiced in our country, and the injection solution has to be refilled every 3 or 6 months, depending on the condition.

The bad thing is that the pump is binary and the other chemical element starts a crystallization process if it is not charged on time, which endangers Milena's organism.

The Turkish hospital has to be visited every 6 months and each refill of the injectable solution amounts to the sum of 3h. Euro . A visit is due by the end of July for which funds must be raised. As the therapy is having a positive effect and the family is having financial difficulties in raising the amount, we are asking for your help to bring back hope and smile to Milena, and for her to be independent again.