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Help Galina pay for knee replacement surgery at Yekaterinburg Community Hospital
Galina needs knee replacement surgery at Yekaterinburg Community Hospital and the family is $1,500 short of the hospital's estimate.
🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia1,860 views
Galina was diagnosed with a cleft palate needing repair in July. The surgeon at Yekaterinburg Community Hospital recommended knee replacement surgery, and She is scheduled for October. The hospital's financial office gave us a written estimate of $2,150, and after what our health plan will pay we're still $1,500 short.
my mother has been in and out of Yekaterinburg Community Hospital since July. The doctors say a cleft palate needing repair will get worse without knee replacement surgery. We have emptied our savings and borrowed from relatives, but the estimate of $2,150 is more than we can find.
While we wait, Galina struggles with daily life and can't stand for more than ten minutes. Her family has taken turns caring for her, and I've cut my own work hours to be there.
Rehabilitation is expected to take about 3 weeks. During that time Galina won't be able to stand for more than ten minutes, so the costs keep growing.
The money goes straight to the treatment bills, and I'll share the invoices as they're paid so you can see exactly what your gift did.
Where the $1,500 goes:
• Post-operative medication: $85
• Travel and lodging for the family: $45
• Hospital stay (2 nights): $440
• Physiotherapy sessions: $100
• Surgeon and anesthesia fees: $830
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Stepan
- due date
- 2026-10-20
- bill type
- Hospital invoice
Updates from Stepan
10% there. I made the first payment toward physiotherapy sessions. Thank you.
Quick update: $150 raised so far (10%). the plan for surgeon and anesthesia fees is now scheduled. Receipts coming as soon as I have them. - Stepan
Update from Yekaterinburg: the plan for surgeon and anesthesia fees is now scheduled. We're at 7% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
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good luck, Stepan. It takes guts to ask. Well done.
Keep going, Stepan. Hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Galina!
Post-operative medication is $85 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Let me know if you want more detail.
Hope things get better soon, Stepan. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Greetings from Cairo.
Wishing you peace, Stepan. This could happen to any of us. After 28 years in retail I know how hard it's to ask for anything!
Thinking of you. Hope the treatment goes smoothly and recovery is quick. After 28 years in construction I know how hard it's to ask for anything
Good luck, Stepan. Get well soon. Blessings