Campaign updates

17 Oct

2026-10-17

For Lenuța Sandu, even walking through her own house can become an ordeal. D&D Construct is by her side with 10,000 lei for the treatment that could bring her less pain and more independence. ❤️

The Save a Heart Association gratefully thanks the D&D Construct team for this contribution and for the support offered to a mother who has been carrying the burden of suffering for too long.

Lenuța is 55 years old and has undergone five spinal surgeries. She lives with severe pain, and sometimes needs the help of her 18-year-old daughter to be able to get up. Despite her health problems, she continues to work four hours a day, as much as her body allows, to contribute to the family's expenses.

Doctors recommended the implantation of a spinal cord neurostimulator, which could relieve her pain and improve her quality of life. The treatment costs 38,500 euros, an amount that exceeds the family's possibilities.

D&D Construct is a company from Botoșani, with over 25 years of experience in the construction industry. Its activity includes civil and industrial constructions, repairs and consolidation of buildings, including monuments, as well as interior and exterior design. By supporting Lenuța, the company also contributes to an essential need of the community: a person's access to medical care that he cannot afford on his own.

The 10,000 lei cover an important part of the cost of the treatment. Each contribution helps us to bring closer the moment when Lenuța will be able to benefit from the recommended procedure.

Thank you, D&D Construct, for your generosity and trust in our work. We hope that, one day, we will be able to bring you the news that Lenuța is feeling better and can live her days with more tranquility. Your support helps us work for that news. ❤️

09 Oct

2026-10-09

Lenuța Sandu has undergone five spinal surgeries. She lives with terrible pain, and sometimes her legs no longer listen to her. There are days when even the journey from the bedroom to the kitchen becomes an ordeal.

But perhaps the most painful thing is not what happens to her.

It is to see his 18-year-old daughter forced to take care of her own mother.

The child she once held by the hand to learn to walk is now the one who supports her when she can no longer get up.

And yet, Lenuța still goes to work. Four hours a day. As much as her health allows. Because life doesn't stop when the disease appears. The bills keep coming, and the medical expenses don't wait.

Doctors recommended the implantation of a spinal cord neurostimulator, a procedure that could relieve his pain and improve his quality of life.

The cost of treatment is 38,500 euros.

I want to ask you something.

How much is the joy of hugging her child worth to a mother?

How much is a morning worth when you can get out of bed without being overwhelmed by pain?

For Lenuța, these things have become more precious than any wealth.

Today I invite you to do something concrete for her.

If 500 people donated 50 lei each, we could raise 25,000 lei for her treatment.

Maybe we can't take away his pain. But we can contribute to the treatment that could give him back some of his independence.

02 Oct

2026-10-02

418 people have chosen, in the last 24 hours, not to pass by Lenuța Sandu's suffering carelessly.

418 people stopped for a few moments from their own worries and looked at the pain of a woman who has been carrying a heavy cross for too long.

Behind every donation is not just a sum of money.
There's a man who said, "I see you."
"I care."
"I don't want you to carry this burden alone."

Lenuța has undergone five surgeries. She lives with pain that is difficult to describe and with the hope that the treatment she needs can give her back a part of the life that suffering has taken from her.

And next to her, the family suffers. Because when a loved one lives day after day with pain, the whole family carries, in one way or another, the same cross.

Today, 418 people have put their shoulder to this cross.

They made it a little easier.

And maybe Lenuța will never know them all. Maybe she won't be able to shake their hand and tell each one what their gesture meant.

But each donation remains there, on its way to healing, as proof that in the most difficult moments there can be people who choose not to look away.

Thank you for the 418 responses given to Lenuta's suffering.

Her story continues. And she still needs us.

Campaign started on 24.09.2026

👦 Last name: Lenuța
👦 First name: Sandu
🗓️ Age: 55 years old
💳 Amount needed: 38,500 Euros
🩺 Diagnosis: Mechanically stabilized lumbar disc disease. Recommended procedure: implantation of a spinal cord neurostimulator
🏥 Hospital: Anastasios Medical Group

A mother who only wants to stand at her daughter’s wedding

You wake up in the morning, and the first thing you feel is not the light. It is the pain. It did not leave you alone last night either. It held your hand until dawn, like a cruel stranger who refuses to leave the house.

You are 55 years old. You have screws in your back. Cold metal where there was once a spine that kept you upright. Five times they laid you on the operating table. Five times they cut open your back. Five times you woke up from anesthesia and heard the same sentence: “It will be okay.”

And five times you believed it.

Now you try to get out of bed. You put one foot down. You cannot feel it. Or you can, but it feels like a thousand burning needles driven all the way to the bone. You cling to the edge of the bed. You breathe. You count silently. One. Two. Three. And you stand up.

You take ten steps. On the eleventh, the floor comes toward you. You did not trip. Your legs simply decided they no longer wanted to belong to you.

You sit there, on the cold tiles. And you do not cry because of the pain. You cry because you know who will come to lift you up.

Your daughter.

She is 18. She turned 18 on July 24. You dreamed of that day for years. You saw yourself dancing with her, laughing, raising a glass. On the day she came of age, you sat in a chair, your hands clasped tightly on your knees, and you cried. Everyone thought you were crying from emotion. You knew the truth.

Hold on, because now comes the hardest part.

One evening, your blood sugar dropped. You have had diabetes since childhood; insulin has been part of your life longer than your memories. You fainted in the bathroom. When you opened your eyes, your little girl was above you, her eyes wide with fear, placing sugar on your tongue with trembling fingers.

Her. Your child. The one to whom you once held a spoon to her mouth.

Now she feeds you.

And then you understood something no mother should ever have to understand: you are no longer her mother. She has become yours.

And yet, the next day, you go to work. Four hours. Every box you lift onto the shelf is a knife in your lower back. Your colleagues see the tears on your cheek. You smile and say it is because of the cold. Because you need that money. Because your heart, with its stent and its erratic beats, has only one reason left to beat properly: the daughter waiting at home.

In the evening, in bed, you do the math. Disability pension. Allowance. Four-hour salary. You add the numbers up ten times, as if the eleventh time they might somehow turn out differently.

Because the doctors told you the final sentence, the one you will never forget:

“If you do not have the neurostimulator placed on your spinal cord, you will remain paralyzed. It is your only chance.”

Your chance costs 38,500 euros. And the paper stating the price expires in 90 days.

You did the math. To save that amount, you would have to not eat for 56 months. Not take your insulin for 56 months. In other words, die so that you can live.

And now, in the dark, you think of only one thing. Not the pain. Not the surgeries. You think of your daughter ten years from now. At 28, pushing a wheelchair. Changing your diaper. Turning down a man, a university, a city, a life, because “Mom cannot be left alone.”

That is your greatest fear. Not that you will no longer walk. But that, without meaning to, you will steal your child’s youth.

Now open your eyes.

You can get up from your chair. You can walk to the kitchen. You can hug your child without being afraid that you will fall on them.

She is not asking for a house. She is not asking for a car. She is asking for only one thing: to stand at her daughter’s wedding.

God, how little this woman asks for. And how much it means.

Please, do not scroll past. One leu means one more day she gets to spend standing beside her daughter. A share may reach exactly the person who has the power to change everything. A prayer may be the shoulder she leans on during the nights when she can no longer go on.

You were Lenuța for only one minute. She is Lenuța every day.

Entity name: Association “SAVE A HEART”

Tax registration code: 31015982

 RON ACCOUNT RO94RNCB0041182104010001

EURO ACCOUNT RO67RNCB0041182104010002

The SWIFT/BIC code for Banca Comercială Română (BCR) is RNCBROBUXXX

Please specify in the bank transfer payment details the name: LENUTA SANDU