Cancer Kids Ukraine

Alina Kolesnik passed away on September 16. She was undergoing treatment for a year and a half in Donetsk. She had a retroperitoneum tumor with metastasis in the bone marrow. But everyone hoped for a miracle. Alina had a lot of people helping her with donor blood, with medications, or with money. We got used to Alina so much during this period of time that we have hard time believing she is not with us any more. Alina was a very shy, patient, and smiling girl. She had a lot of pain during the last week of her life. She was sleeping almost all the time. Sometimes she would moan. A new tumor grew instead of the removed one. Multiple metastasis spread into the liver, lungs, and adrenal glands. Alina passed away very quietly, without complaining about anything, with a smile on her lips.