Update 24.06.25:

🆘 Saving Mama Rosie - the fight against aggressive sarcoma that we cannot fight alone

I am Rosica's daughter. Mum is only 53 - a midwife, mother of three, grandmother of three grandchildren and fourth on the way a person with a huge soul who has been helping others all her life. For years she cared for our grandmother alone, whose misdiagnosis after thyroid surgery led to a fatal end. The histology was wrong. They said it was benign, and by the time they found out the truth, it was too late. Mom went through this hell in silence. And today she is fighting for her life herself.

Her 👶 grandchild lives with her calls her "mommy" - from "mommy". She has helped raise him since birth. she even attended ma his birth. She brushed his teeth every night, they watched "Masha and Winnie" together, they fell asleep snuggled. Now he looks for her and cries, wakes up in his sleep, walks around the rooms hoping to see her. And we don't know how to explain to him where she is.

🩺 It all started 9 months ago...

Low abdominal pain. Doctors said it was a fibroid, no room for worry. Followed by checkups with nephrologists and urologists. No one saw what was really going on.

On November 8 we had an MRI which showed a suspected malignant process. However, many denied the risk. One professor of medicine decided to do a curettage and sent the material for histology. We then received the dreaded diagnosis:

Endometrial stromal/undifferentiated sarcoma - rare and extremely aggressive.

🌍 We are fighting abroad because we didn't get a chance here

Mom went urgently with my brother for treatment in Turkey where she had a complete hysterectomy.The operation cost 50,000€ Followed:

🔹 First line chemotherapy - 3 courses each,which was 7000€

🔹 Radiotherapy

🔹 Second line chemotherapy

🔹 Target therapy (Pazopanib)

🔹 Palliative radiation courses

Each course,each test was very expensive and the treatment costs continue...

📍 But no one wants to be away from home. We did everything possible to continue the treatment in Bulgaria. The plan was: after the three courses of chemotherapy to do surgery in a sarcoma center in Greece.

While we were waiting for her organization, mom stayed 3 months without active chemotherapy. It was during this period that the cancer spread aggressively - to her bones and brain.

New imaging initially gave hope, but turned out to be misinterpreted, again delaying treatment.

⚠️ The treatment plan is constantly changing - because the disease is relentless

The disease is progressing extremely rapidly. There is no time for waiting or standard protocols. The treatment plan is constantly changing according to new results, responses and options. Every week is a new struggle.

➡️ The specialists told us from the beginning:

"She needs treatment in the US - at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where they have experience with such rare and highly aggressive sarcomas."

💔 Mom is not just a patient

- She graduated as a midwife with a dream of helping women in their most fragile moments.

- She helps daily in raising her grandchild who never stops looking for her.

- She endures pain, fear and uncertainty - but she doesn't give up. And we won't give up on her.

🧡 Urgent need for funds for life-saving treatment

🔸 Treatment at MD Anderson (USA).

🔸 Continuation of treatment in Turkey: 150 000 euro

An amount that a family cannot provide alone. And every week lost is irretrievable.

🙏 Every donation, every sharing and every kind word is a chance for Mom to keep living.

‼️ Please help us save Rosie's mom. Hope dies last.

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Our lives are turned upside down in an instant. Just like that, out of nowhere, unexpected - a Cancer diagnosis. That word that takes your breath away, that brings fear, pain and despair. No one is prepared for it, no one is insured.

A small child waits every night for her to come back,crying when he wakes up looking for her, looking for her around the rooms,hoping to see her somewhere, he doesn't know what's going on and we don't know, but he, how to explain to him what's going on...(he's only dee years old ), who was used to her brushing his teeth at night, watching Masha and the bear together...and falling asleep nestled in her...

It's hard for all of us and we can't believe this is happening,so yesterday she graduated as a midwife,her dream was to be of help to many women and what has befallen her now she needs help.

Two months ago it all started,lower abdominal pains,which were getting worse,visited a gynaecologist,they said myoma,no pain there,they sent her to a nephrologist,then a urologist,and every specialist said something far from the hard truth.

We decided to do an MRI scan on 8.nov.24.they suspected malignancy in the myoma but then oncologists, gynecologists in Varna denied it, said there was nothing to worry about, probably kidneys and going to nephrologists again. She then contacted her lecturer who was going to operate on her but decided to do a curettage beforehand and send for histology and already there it was confirmed,that there was cancer,but not identified.

My brother and I went immediately to Anadolu Hospital in Turkey -where she is now,they did a hysterectomy,they examined the tumor and it came out - endometrial stromal sarcoma/and differentiated sarcoma,but it turns out that they don't have that much experience with high grade sarcomas and don't give much hope,our only hope now is to be able to get her to a hospital in the USA - MD Anderson,where they have a lot of new methods related to the treatment of sarcomas.

Hope is the last to die - Mom is with us, she is still so young, so kind and helpful person, why her, we pray every day, we still believe that miracles happen on Christmas, but will it happen to us.