Every day Tamerlan takes pills by the hour. He hasn't missed a single dose in 10 years, because his life depends on it. 4 tablets of Mayfortik and 1 tablet of Rapamun help his mother's kidney function smoothly in the child's body every day.
Tomi (as the nephrologist at the Irkutsk Regional Hospital nicknamed the boy) underwent a transplant a year after he was born. His own kidneys failed at that time, and Nadya's mother had no time to think about it. She sold their "one-room apartment" in Irkutsk to pay for her son's treatment and also gave him her left kidney.
The surgery was a success, even though the accompanying diagnoses prevented the boy from going to school. He grows up bright, open and kind, studies with his teacher at home, adores museums and dreams of becoming an announcer.
Nadia recently pawned gold earrings and a necklace at a pawnshop to buy another pack of Rapamune. On the same day, her son helped the man himself: he gave a beggar in the street his samosa and persuaded his mother to buy him a bottle of soda, and then worried all day long about how the old man was feeling.
Tomi himself wasn't feeling too bad, as long as he had a supply of pills. Except that one pack of Rapamun costs 46,000. And if the Ermatovs, who live on a disability pension and care allowance, can't find the money, Tomi will start rejecting his donor kidney
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Since 2016, the AIF Foundation. Kind Heart has been helping the family with medications. We have opened a collection for medications so that Tomi can live and continue to save. Others and himself
