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Hello!
My father, a doctor himself, is ill.
The illness was getting to him quietly, without attracting much attention. August 2007. Tambov. The temperature rose to 39C, fatigue, all the symptoms of intoxication. Flu. The temperature does not go down for a long time. We return to St. Petersburg. Father feels worse. He is taken to intensive care unit with a diagnosis of croup and pneumonia in the right lung. The doctors get him better. The blood test results are bad. At the Military Medical Academy, the doctors suspect he has Epstein-Barr virus. In November 2007 we are discharged from the hospital.
A little more than a year passes by. January 13, 2009. St. Petersburg. The temperature is 37.5C. Hospitalization at Botkin hospital. Here, despite having insurance policy, we face totally uncaring personnel. Father was offered no therapy at all. Once a day, his blood pressure and temperature were measured. We complained in writing about the service quality, as did the insurance company.
Transfer to Hematology hospital No.15. The attitude is even worse. We still remember the phrase: "Patients, collect your IV drips". Suspected anaplastic anemia. Despite "treatment", father feels better. In February 2009 he is discharged. Received a referral for a consultation to Gorbacheva Center. There father is told he is not their kind of patient.
Another six months pass. October 2009. St. Petersburg. Cough. Runny nose. Suspected bronchitis.
November 1, 2009. St. Petersburg. Hospitalization at Molchanov Therapeutic Clinic at Military Medical Academy. Diagnosis: bronchitis. Recovery. Discharge in the beginning of December 2009.
December 29, 2009. St. Petersburg. The temperature is 37.5-38C. Cough. We are treating father at home. The temperature stays high.
January 5, 2010. St. Petersburg. We call ambulance. They listen, but find nothing wrong. We convince them to diagnose father with suspected pneumonia and issue a referral for hospitalization. They agree and take father to Russian Railroad Clinic.
January 2010. St. Petersburg. Russian Railroad Clinic. Therapy ward. Diagnosis: pneumonia of right lung. Father feels unwell, but does not receive much therapy. Temperature: 37-38C. Pulse: over 100 beats/min. Terrible blood test results. Blood looks more like water. Transfer to Hematology ward. Diagnosis: hairy cell leukemia. Doctors' big eyes when they see the test results from 2009 that were taken in hospital No.15: "Why wasn't he diagnosed with leukemia back then?" Intensive therapy with antibiotics. Blood transfusions.
February 2010. St. Petersburg. Transfer to Hematology and Transfusiology Research Institute. Temperature –38.5C. It does not go down. The doctors infuse father with buckets of antibiotics. Daily blood transfusions. Diagnosis is final: hairy cell leukemia. Administered a short cycle of chemotherapy. The temperature did not go down. Cough is just as bad. Suspected fungal infection in a lung.
February 19, 2010. St. Petersburg. Hematology and Transfusiology Research Institute. We are told of the need for the course of treatment with antimycotic (antifungal) drug Vfend. If we buy through a dealer, a package of it will cost 32,000 rubles. We need 12 packages. The discussion is half-whisper, as the doctors are prohibited from asking to buy medications.
But we continue fighting. First of all, we opened a support group on Vkontakte website and opened accounts in electronic payment systems.
As of now we need: help from blood donors with blood type (O(I) Rh(-)), nine bottles of intravenous Vfend (we have enough to last until March 1, 2010) and 400,000 rubles to pay for the full course of Vfend in pills.

Yuri Sergeevich, Sergei's son
Home address:
198412 St. Petersburg,
Ul. Fedyuninskogo, d. 16 kv. 14
Contact phone:
+7 (921) 635-49-61
Email: yuriy.samorodov@gmail.com

Medical conclusion
Móñological study

Update as of March 7, 2010. Sergei's condition worsened, and he is seriously fatigued. CT scan showed negative progression. If earlier, one of his lungs was affected partially, now both lungs are involved. Due to Vfend therapy, Sergei had some side effects and he rarely gets up now. He may need to be switched from Vfend to Noxafil.
Epicrisis: page 1, page 2, page 3

Update as of March 30, 2010. Sergei was transferred to Military Medical Academy. His condition improved slightly, he regained some strength and got an appetite. Sergei can get up already. He was switched to Noxafil from Vfend. The drug is available at the clinic.
Professor Klimko's conclusion

Update as of April 1, 2010. I apologize for unintended misinformation of my supporters: the Military Medical Academy personal indeed told me that if necessary, the medication will be purchased. So we heard what we wanted to hear. However, later on, unfortunately, it turned out that MMA did not buy Noxafil, and apparently has no intention of doing so. As of now, we are buying the medication ourselves. Or to be more exact, we used to buy. Right now, we have no money and there is only enough medication for 9 days.
We urgently need help!
Yuri Samorodov

Update as of May 19, 2010. Sergei's condition improved somewhat, but he still needs Noxafil.

Update as of July 3, 2010. Sergei is still treated as outpatient and he is continuing Noxafil therapy. He is in remission in regards to leukemia, and a control CT scan of his lungs showed an improvement. Noxafil may be replaced by Vfend.

Update as of July 14, 2010. I apologize for not updating you about my father's condition. Thank God, he is alive. He feels much better now. Recently he was at the control exam at Mycology Research Institute. The results are very encouraging.
However, he still needs to continue therapy with anti-mycotics. Due to very dangerous allergy to Vfend, my father was recommended therapy with Noxafil (medical report: p.1 and p.2).
We are enormously grateful to AdVita Fund for support! It is hard to find words to express how grateful our whole family is.
Yuri Samorodov

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