My son Andrei is 17 years old. He was a healthy child in early childhood, always good in schooling
and in sports. The trouble began when he was 14. He fell ill with prosiasis.
During the years of treatment, there have been no positive results. On the contrary, Andrei
has been feeling progressively worse: psoriatic plaques grew all over his body, new ones
appeared even after minor scratch. A year later, pains in the joints began. They were swollen
and ached so terribly that my son couldn't move and had fever up to 38.5 C. An ambulance
took him to a hospital, where he spent several months, but the positive effect was not
significant... The inflammatory process in the joints and in
the entire body is still developing. The diagnosis is known now: psoriatic arthritis.
Fever and pains persist all the time. Andrei takes anti-inflammatory
drugs and analgesics twice a day, but they alleviate his suffering only for a brief time and
to a slight extent. The disease has literally consumed my son: he weighs only 44 kg, although his height is 174 cm.
Now we have come to the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital in Moscow for an examination.
The doctors say that there is a chance he will feel better after administration
of Remicade. The necessary dose of this drug will cost 94,000 roubles ($3615). I raise my son all by myself,
and we have no such sum. My son's disability pension and my salary, taken together, are barely
sufficient to pay our daily life: we have not only to buy food and other necessary goods but also to rent something
in our city (Omsk), because my former husband, Andrei's father, just threw us out
of our apartment and refused to help us in any way.
Please help my son! This expensive drug is our last chance, our last hope for recovery!
Thank you for your attention to my son's destiny.
Yours respectfully,
Galina M. Novoselova
October 9, 2008
The doctor's comment
Patient Andrei Novoselov, b. 1991, has been a patient of the Department of Dermatology
since October 7, 2008. Diagnosis: arthropathic psoriasis, grave extensive continuously recurrent form.
For the primary stage of treatment, one 300-mg dose of Remicade
should be administered to the boy. Please help this family in buying three 100-mg vials
of this drug, because their financial situation is very difficult.
Physician-in-charge E.V. Lazutina
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News
23.12.2008 Remicade for Andrei Novoselov has been purchased. Many thanks to all who have responded
and personally to Sergei Savchuk, who decided to help the boy once again and provided the
remaining part of the sum (50,000 roubles, or $1725). Yesterday Andrei with his mother
arrived at the hospital for the next course of treatment. Let us wish good luck to the boy!
29.10.2008 We thank people who promptly responded to our request and provided
urgent help to Andrei Novoselov! Sergei Savchuk
handed us 100,000 roubles ($3700), and Igor donated 91,000 roubles ($3370). The money
for the current course of Remicade is available now. Andrei will arrive for follow-up treatment
in two months.
27.10.2008 Last week, Andrei
Novoselov underwent the first stage of Remicade therapy. Just as it has happened with many expensive drugs,
the budgetary supply of Remicade to the hospital has been interrupted, and nobody knows when it
will be resumed. And, unfortunately, there are fewer people willing to help a teenager than to save a charming
baby... So far we received Remicade for Andrei on credit. The dose costs 94,000 roubles ($3480).
The results of the Remicade therapy matched our best expectations. The pains in the joints have ceased;
the boy can now walk and sleep at night without analgesics.
This week Andrei will have the next dose of Remicade administered to him, which means
that we somehow have to find 94,000 roubles again... Please help the boy!
They have helped
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