What are you dreaming about today? A better job? A better salary? A new car? Latest model phone? A fairytale wedding on the seashore? Two children – a boy and a girl? A country house? Grandchildren to be well and come more often?
And 28-year-old Bozhidara Pavlova from the Sofia village of Aldomirovtsi dreams of only one thing – a kidney. Her ticket to life to allow her to have more ordinary, mundane dreams. Like ours.
In recent years, the beautiful young girl has been involved in her personal life “Survivor”, whose daily trials include operations, transplantation, heavy drugs, dangerous complications, a rejected kidney, a hemodialysis machine.
Bozhidara already got one chance 15 years ago, when a banal infection, which every child catches several times a season, unexpectedly turned into the terrible diagnosis of “terminal kidney failure”. After numerous bureaucratic vicissitudes and the impossibility of the operation being performed in Bulgaria, her organ was transplanted abroad.
And it’s as if the dice are turning – little Bozhi is relatively well. Her life begins as she imagined it during the endless days in bed – she graduates from school, enrolls in law at Sofia University, begins to allow herself to dream about “ordinary” things, just like us.
Photos: Gettyimages and personal archive; Collage: Dir.bg
In short.
Last September, the transplanted kidney failed. The only member of her family who can become her donor is her mother, but due to the stress she develops diabetes and that option is dropped. A new cadaver donor is being sought to give her the opportunity to dream again, just like 15 years ago. However, the waiting list for a transplant in our country is long, and Bozhi’s chances are decreasing with each passing day, because the hemodialysis, which the 28-year-old beauty goes to twice a week at Tokuda Hospital, gives life, but takes away health, and soon it may become inoperable. Dozens of people with whom she spent her life in hospitals never got to see their big dream – a new kidney…
Therefore, she and her relatives are starting a “second season” of their personal “Survivor”. The scenario is clear – they start looking for options – and again letters to clinics abroad, a bunch of research, epicrisis, dashed hopes – there are no cadaveric organs, secure a donor and we do it right away, wait, write again after a while, we wish you success.. .
A ray of hope
A ray of hope comes from a transplant and hematology clinic in Belarus, where they tell her she has a chance. Legal. The cost of her chance is about BGN 200,000, necessary for the operation itself and the many preliminary studies and preparations for it. Bozhidara has not yet managed to collect the entire amount. And time is running out between the drips of the hemodialysis machine, because every day on her is a potential new complication and a decrease in the possibility of being transplanted…
Meanwhile, the beautiful “survivor” from Aldomirovtsi has fought with a barely saved transplanted first kidney, which is failing; paralysis of the right leg as a result of the coma in which he fell and finally miraculously walked again; unlock bone marrow disease; suspected cancer; uncontrollable, extremely high blood pressure due to kidney problems; multiple hemorrhages throughout the body; cytomegalovirus and other complicated terms and diagnoses that a young girl should not learn and know unless she is a medical student.
Too much for a 28-year-old life, right? You have no time left for dreams.
Photos: Gettyimages and personal archive; Collage: Dir.bg
Second chance
Still, I ask her what she dreams of if she manages to collect the 90,000 leva she needs and receives the kidney that will give her a chance for a normal, real, “banal” life. “It’s time for me to start a family. – smiles timidly of God and adds: I really, really want children”. She has a boy by her side who supports her not to give up this time either. “Without him, I will not survive mentally. Love gives wings,” says the beauty, who dreams of entering not only the ritual room, but also the courtroom as a lawyer.
Whether there will be a second chance depends on all of us, on the doctors and on God.
“Because hemodialysis is not a treatment, it is a life-sustaining procedure that is extremely damaging, and the average life expectancy of people on dialysis according to information on the Internet is 3-5 years. And I just want to be a mother, a grandmother, happy… It’s hard for me to write words of self-pity to beg for people’s pity. The feeling of physical weakness is so crushing that only the helplessness to change the circumstances is more crushing. Thanks to friends who spread the posts about my campaign! Thanks and to every single donor!” shares Bozhidara Pavlova, who dreams of banal, ordinary dreams. Like ours.
You can support the campaign for the transplantation of 28-year-old Bozhidara Pavlova at the following accounts:
Owner: Bozhidara Pavlova
Reason: Donation
UniKredit IBAN: BG27UNCR70001598046163
Izpay IBAN: BG52ESPY40040023204421
PayPal: www.paypal.me/BozhidaraP
Revolut: @bozhidara16
2023-10-05 11:08:33
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