When I wake up - darkness rises with me ... Please, help me see the light
I have been blind for nine years. Despite the huge problems I do not give up and I have a great desire for life, because I am a born optimist. The only way to improve my situation is to implement my plan... Will you listen to my short story? Stem cells and my damaged optic nerves - if they meet, maybe a day will come when I can not get up with dark, but a normal life. My eyes are dead, blind, dimmed. I have not used them for years, but now there is a chance! I would be happy if I could collect even a cure of one eye, which would change my situation diametrically. I would be as repaired as a car after renovation, and in my eyes, finally, light would appear. I could become a cyclopian in the female version - it's funny to you, it's a dream and happiness for me. I could, but I have no real possibility to realize this experimental idea, and I am determined. In my darkness I have to function and I have already lived 3500 days with my collegial blindness. In four walls, still needing help, still not knowing if and where it would come from. I was 10 years old when a seemingly innocent accident broke my plans and, consequently, took everything that was the most beautiful in the world.3 operations, just to see something, blocked the further development of the optic nerves and took away my passion. I've always wanted to study visual arts, but a blind artist is an unemployed artist. I went on the disability pension with a heavy heart. I did not want any pension, I wanted to see, work, live ... Post-traumatic shock.The second accident in my life - much heavier and tragic in consequences. In this case, my only son died! I did not think so far that darkness could have different faces ...It was a much stronger hit than it was in the childhood. Strong stress, a strong disease - glaucoma, took away the remnants of vision. I stayed more alone than loneliness predicts. It was dark, quiet and very bad ... 10% luxury.What is ordinary life for you is for me a luxury, not striking the walls or furniture ... When a human cannot see anything, she will not see a solution to the problem unless someone tells him about it. The doctors gave me a chance. I was offered a 10% of vision!A great thing, the greatest happiness, the only hope to see something in this life. Stem cell transplant can restore me the 10% of vision, but I have to make it. At the moment I'm doing everything to survive until the surgery is conducted, to raise money ... 10% is the fulfillment of my dream. I need to create a chain of huge people for this. Let me say so emphatically that I am counting on the help of the people who have been affected by my story. I hope that I will be able to do this great, innovative thing that would pave the way for people like me, and then it will be our common success, given to people who are disadvantaged. Full of hope and respect for the donors Maria Kowalska