After months of waiting, after countless roads with the file and after a good period of time Cristina Tau's campaign comes to an end by being approved by the Ministry of Health settling the amount of 28,000 euros representing the operation, the device and the hospitalization for 5 days. Cristina operated at the CLINIC GROUP FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALS-Instambul -Turkey.Cristina is undergoing treatment and recovery.
The "Save a Heart" Association has concluded in this humanitarian campaign the following:
-humanitarian blog+media campaign by raising the necessary funds in Cristina's account of 6100 Euro.
-campaign on online donation platform of 1465 RON and 36 media appearances.
Name: Tau
First name: Cristina Elena
Diagnosis: Generalized dystonia
Recovery treatment: Germany
Clinic: INI Hanover Germany
Total amount required: 30,600 euro
The first signs of the disease appeared at the age of 10 to 11 years, in my right leg, which prevents me from walking properly. While other children were playing and enjoying childhood, I started walking from hospital to hospital, and the first to investigate my problem were orthopaedic doctors. At their direction, I started going to medical gymnastics in a city center, living in the country with my mother. I had to be in from school hours so I could get my recovery. Later I was directed to consult neurologists, and the medical consultation became a habit for me.
I was diagnosed with various diseases, I was about 16 years old when, following admission to the hospital in Timisoara, I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, and the prescribed treatment was available to procure only from Hungary. This diagnosis was later disproved when I started looking for a medical solution in some hospitals in Bucharest, starting in 2001. So we took the hospitals in a row, trying to find out why I suffer, many doctors, many opinions, many drugs, many ct scans and magnetic resonances but without a concrete, clear answer. The doctors told me i didn't see anything in my head, they were giving me various diagnoses, but my gait was getting worse, and in the meantime I was in high school.
In 2003 I went to a consult in Hungary at the University of Szeged, department of Neurology, where I conducted a very thorough consultation. For a whole day I was kept and connected to various machines. The conclusion was similar to the previous ones, obtained in the country, even they did not know very well what I have but they gave a starting point for doctors in the country, they assumed a form of dystonia (a rare neurological disease) on the right side and proposed treatment with Toxina Botulinica. In Romania, it was not known about Toxina Botulinica, I asked left to right, it was said that it is dangerous to do it, could help me or induce a worsening of the disease, moreover, I did not find a specialist doctor to carry out this injectable treatment.
I got to college in Timisoara, I was in my first year when a teacher picked me up in front of the other students and criticized my writing, saying that I wrote with my foot and that he couldn't read my paper, he didn't know that I was sick. We'd get to class first and go last. I find out that I'm sick, he called me to pass the 5th exam, and I refused and I said I'm going to the exam in the fall. That's when I realized my right hand was badly damaged, I was starting to drop objects out of my hand, have spasms in my hand. My speech was also impaired, my voice was bad, my voice was numb.
I found a neurologist, in Timisoara, conf. Dr. Chirileanu Rucsandra, who took me into the dance and gave me a lot of attention, from the perspective of the less usual suffering. He gave me treatment with cerebrolysin injections, other medications and vitamins. Year after year, he admitted me for investigation and analysis and gave me an infusion cure with Thiogamma and Milgamma. These medications and injections helped me for a while, but at some point the body stopped responding to treatment and periodically changed.
Time has passed, and with it childhood and adolescence that I could not enjoy, because of the suffering I had, even if they are or must be the most beautiful moments of life.
I ended up working 4 hours a day, where I was very well received by both the management of the company and colleagues, but I encounter difficulties in communication. Some people look at me funny and don't understand what I'm talking about. I realize the disease's getting worse.
t very loud and I have reached the stage where sometimes I can not articulate the words, and the process of speech is prevented very much. The disease has had a slow evolution over time, but is increasingly accelerated in recent times
Finally, in the autumn of 2013, at the guidance of Mrs. Conf. Dr. Chirileanu, we arrived again in Bucharest to confirm the diagnosis of "Generalized Dystonia" and to learn more about the intervention called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) or Deep Brain Stimulation.
I went to the Colentina Clinical Hospital, I stayed for 3 weeks under the investigation of Mr. Conf. Dr. Popescu O. Bogdan, who confirmed the diagnosis and directed me to go to Germany, to find out if the brain surgery, mentioned above.
After a month, with my mother I went to Germany to Hannover, for a consultation, after which I learned that the only chance to improve the quality of my life, together with maintaining an acceptable level of the symptomatology of the disease, is the intervention of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) (guaranteed between 10-40%) and I was scheduled for emergency, on March 24, 2014, but the costs of surgery and hospitalization are very high.
This is a short story about me and fighting the disease. A struggle to find a diagnosis and implicitly a treatment to help me!
Finally a light came up, but the road is long and hard to get to it.
With all the hardships I face, I have not lost hope, I believe that the hands and skill of the doctor in Germany will work wonders, make my life easier, that I can talk, be understood and walk.
God help!
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