Hello!

My name is Maria Nikolova and I am asking for your help to raise funds for the treatment of my friend Dian Dimitrov, 40 years old, from the town of Sofia. Varna !

I don't know if I will be able to briefly describe to you his story about what happened to him, but I will try to be brief.

In 2006. In 2006 Dian suffered a serious accident caused by a drunk driver. He was on the verge of life and death , but after 12 days in a coma he woke up and the torment of his recovery began! He has undergone multiple surgeries since then till 2015-2016.

As a result of this accident he received multiple injuries , but his problem was a shattered knee. After many surgeries they removed the bone and put a donor bone in , but as a result infections occurred and they had to remove it. After several years of treatment in Pleven with Dr. Asparuhov, Dian went to Germany in 2015 in the hope of getting an internal prosthesis. However, his great hope to walk again died after his three-month stay in the Muenster hospital. From the day he was admitted there, the German professor who was supposed to perform the intervention for which he was admitted, has been trying to convince him all along that the leg should be amputated and there is no other option. After the first operation, Diane felt that something was wrong and realised that they had cut the muscles of his limb and it was cut by 3.5 cm. He refused in writing to undergo the subsequent operations and went to Vienna. There, Dr. Winkler fitted him with an internal artificial joint and after a week of treatment, Dian returned to Bulgaria. After his return he gradually started to walk despite the shortened limb and the pain gradually subsided.

In 2021, however, the pain returned and his limp became very pronounced.We started looking for the Viennese doctor again, to no avail. I spoke personally with Professor Tsachev from Orthopaedics and Traumatology introducing MMA about Dido's condition, he asked me to send him pictures of the limb and let's hear then to say how we will proceed. Unfortunately after receiving the photos we could not contact him anymore. And one fine day a client told me about a close relative who had an accident ( a plate cut his leg off mid-thigh) in Spain and came across Professor Pedro Cavadas, famous for amazing surgeries such as limb transplants and other unusual interventions. My wife found my phone and email and I immediately sent documents and a description of what happened to Dian.

After a few months of phone calls with Prof. Kavadas , who every time said that if I have no answer, then the case is not for the professor, I received a letter with a phone number to make an appointment for an examination. The very same minute I called and booked the first available appointment, which was for this year 26.01.2022. After three months we went for the examination, we provided all the documents that Prof. Kavadas read in front of us and by his expression while reading I felt indignation for the treatment carried out so far. He examined the limb carefully, said that the limb was 6.5 cm apart from the healthy leg. He took the documents and photos taken over the years so far and conferred with his assistants for nearly 30 minutes.

He came back and said that there is an option to be a normal person with a normal life again. The option is to move the ankle for the knee, from the healthy leg will take one bone from the shin, from the back muscles and said with a smile - " You get up and walk normally , your two legs will be equal , you will have scars , but you will have a normal life. You are a young man and life is ahead of you."

I can't describe to you the joy I felt , but imagine Dido what it was like inside. I cried, with joy.

But our joy was short lived . When we received the offer. It described everything and when we counted the amount it came to 100 thousand euros. Since then, we have been trying to raise the necessary amount on our own, but in eight months we have raised only 11,700 euros.

The offer expires at the end of December, Dido's condition is getting worse every day and the pain does not stop, so I turn to you for help.I will be eternally grateful for the smallest help, because I know how many sick children and people there are who can not afford treatment in these difficult times!