ALL THE STORIES WE TELL REGARDING LIFE IN BUDIMEX HOSPITAL ARE A “MIX” - SOME SAD BUT ALSO SOME GLAD!

ONLY THIS WEEK (IN FEBRUARY 2004) WE HAD THE JOY OF WELCOMING ALEXANDRA BACK FROM A PARIS HOSPITAL WHERE SHE HAD UNDERGONE A SERIOUS OPERATION.

THIS LOVELY 14 YEAR OLD GIRL HAD BEEN AN OUT-PATIENT IN BUDIMEX OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS. SHE HAD A MYSTERIOUS BLOOD PROBLEM AND, AS THE YEARS PASSED, IT SEEMED TO GET WORSE AND MANY DOCTORS WERE PUZZLED. THE HOSPITAL ACQUIRED A VERY EXPENSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT -AN
ENDOSCOPE, AND, THROUGH EXAMINATION WITH THIS EQUIPMENT, THE SOURCE OF ALL THE TROUBLE WAS IDENTIFIED. DOCTORS HERE COULD OPERATE BUT IT WAS CONSIDERED SAFER TO HAVE THIS OPERATION IN A PARIS HOSPITAL WHERE BACK-UP SUPPORT WOULD BE AVAILABLE.

THE PROCESS WAS TRAUMATIC FOR ALEXANDRA AND HER PARENTS BUT THE OPERATION WAS A HUGE SUCCESS AND ETAJ 7 (WHERE ALEXANDRA HAD BEEN A PATIENT OVER THE YEARS) RANG WITH LAUGHTER AND JOY WHEN SHE RETURNED TO VISIT THERE AND, FOR ONE MORNING, ALEXANDRA WAS A TV STAR!

ONCE AGAIN WE WERE FILLED WITH GRATITUDE TO OUR SUPPORTERS FOR, ALL THESE YEARS, WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE, NOT ONLY MORAL SUPPORT BUT, IN A BIG WAY, FINANCIAL AID TO ENABLE THIS GIRL TO TRAVEL FIRSTLY TO HUNGARY WHERE WE HOPED FOR HELP.

NEXT OUR PLEASURE WAS TO ASSIST HER MOTHER TO ACCOMPANY HER TO PARIS FOR THAT SUCCESSFUL OPERATION AND TO REMAIN THERE FOR CONVALESCENCE.

THIS GRANDMOTHER HAS A DAUGHTER AND A SON BOTH OF WHOM ARE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED, HER SON GOT MARRIED AND HAS A BABY DAUGHTER WHO IS ALSO PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED. GRANDMOTHER LOVES AND CARES FOR ALL. OUR LITTLE HELP WAS TO PROVIDE THEM WITH MEALS ON WHEELS.