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Help Svetlana pay for hip replacement surgery at Kharkiv General Hospital
Svetlana needs hip replacement surgery at Kharkiv General Hospital and the family is $350 short of the hospital's estimate.
🇺🇦 Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine1,671 views
Svetlana was diagnosed with a thyroid nodule that needs removal in May. The surgeon at Kharkiv General Hospital recommended hip replacement surgery, and She is scheduled for September. The hospital's financial office gave us a written estimate of $440, and after what my insurance will pay we're still $350 short.
my wife has been in and out of Kharkiv General Hospital since May. The doctors say a thyroid nodule that needs removal will get worse without hip replacement surgery. We have emptied our savings and borrowed from relatives, but the estimate of $440 is more than we can find.
While we wait, Svetlana struggles with daily life and can't climb stairs. Her family has taken turns caring for her, and I've cut my own work hours to be there.
The recovery period is expected to take about 6 weeks. During that time Svetlana won't be able to climb stairs, 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 $350 goes:
• Travel and lodging for the family: $60
• Post-operative medication: $90
• Physiotherapy sessions: $75
• Pre-operative tests and imaging: $125
Thanks for being kind about this.
- Artem
- due date
- 2026-08-01
- bill type
- Hospital invoice
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is there anything that isn't money that would help Svetlana?
Thank you. If you're in Kharkiv I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Happy to explain more.
Thinking of you and your family, Artem. This could happen to any of us. All the best.
Praying for you, Artem. Hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day
Hope things get better soon, Artem. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Toronto but we're thinking of you. God bless.
gave what I could, wish it was more. Thinking of Kharkiv.
shared it with a few friends. Put this on a community board in Birmingham this morning. God bless.