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‘Strengthen the Strong’: Rasma Runch’s mother Rasma passed away on New Year’s Eve

Two hours after the start of the New Year, or, as Reinis Runcis says, “along with the last fireworks, his mother Rasma Priekule, one of the four in support of this year’s project, passed away at the age of 76”.Strengthen the strongWe have already reported that the past year has been very difficult for the family. important support for the son.

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For the fourth year in a row, the Delfi portal is supporting the project “Strengthen the Strong” in cooperation with the charity “Ziedot.lvAn article about Rasma can be read here. An article about the poet Reini Runci, the protagonist of the “Strengthen Strong” 2020 project, can be read here.

“I was still able to say goodbye to her. The last time I was with her was a week ago, when she had last recovered, she recognized me,” says Reinis Runcis. He went in a wheelchair with his mother to a palliative care center, where she stayed for the last months of her life.

Reinis also wrote on the social network “Facebook” about the day: “Today there were all the conditions to not go outside and to Mom. , is the last stop for more than a dozen more people. pomelo, mandarins, oranges, I do not remember or what else.

For the last months of her life, Rasma stayed in a private palliative care center, which was ready to admit her immediately after the Ortho Clinic, where she underwent spinal surgery, but unfortunately that was not enough. It was the second operation she had in a short time. The lion’s share of 14.8 thousand euros for the spine operation in the autumn was covered by donors donating to Ziedot.lv, the remaining costs – the family. According to Reinis, “the spine was operated on in the hope of living for some time, but the cancer developed, metastasized, and no doctor undertook surgery.”

Then the only solution was palliative care. Its costs are very high, and the palliative care center costs around 2,200 euros a month. Initially, they were covered by “Ziedot.lv” from the money collected in another charity project, but in December “Stiprini stipros” became involved and the December costs will be covered by the donors’ money collected in this project. Also, if necessary, the donated money will cover the funeral costs. According to the agreement between “Ziedot.lv” and the recipient of the donation: if the donated amount or part / balance of the donation is no longer needed, the fund is entitled to use these funds to provide equivalent assistance, but the recipient has the right to indicate for which charity.

“Many thanks to the donors, say that the tomcat is terribly surprised that someone is supporting at all. It is amazing to our northern people, who are more of themselves, that people can reach out. And unfortunately I have to ask you not to take my hand off so that I do not enter the institution, “says Reinis openly.

Concerned about the future Reinis started collecting donations to his account already in October, you can read more about it “Facebook“entry here a here. “I had saved for a non-white day and now I’m spending it all at speed,” Reinis said of the time when the severity of my mother’s diagnosis was revealed.

'Strengthen the Strong': Rasma Runch's mother Rasma passed away on New Year's Eve
Photo: Maris Morkans


Already before, Reinis, who lived with his mother, “Delfi” admitted that this year had passed to him like hell, because the already fragile foundation under his feet had disappeared. Reinis is assisted on a daily basis by three caregivers. “I’ve been without a mom for two months now,” he told Delphi in November. “There’s nothing sensible about her. There are two sisters who come regularly and a third who comes sometimes, but in fact those two carry a load of four.” At night and in the robos, when a caregiver was absent or ill, Rhine was cared for by his mother.

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