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(English first) (Español más abajo)
(English is just my second language, sorry about any mistakes)
Aunt Gina is 59 years old, born in Oruro, Bolivia.
Since age of 4 she suffers of Rheumatoid arthritis. She's been forced to remain in bed and hospitals, paying very high costs as she's been through both hips and both knees replacement surgeries. Even through this, she's been able to study and work as a journalist at local radio news stations.
On July this year 2022 she's been through right knee replacement surgery, which costed USD 5000. After a month of the surgery she showed high pain on the right hip, probably because of her now poor bone quality caused by rheumatoid arthritis and presumably because of bad manipulation and negligence during the mentioned knee surgery.
Because of that pain she went back to orthopedic surgeon, where radiography (picture shown above this paragraph) showed the right hip prosthesis had suffered irreparable damage and had to be replaced.
Cost for this new hip replacement prosthesis is BOB 30.624, which equals USD 4.400 (1USD = 6,96BOB Bolivian Peso). ProForma invoice below.
We need to leave clear that the surgery has already taken place on Thursday, September 22th. Since this was a very urgent surgery, we had to collect the money within our own family members and we have been able to cover the costs, but since most of us are of mid-low income family, the purpose of this Campaign is to try recovering as much of that paid money as we can, to recover ourselves from the high economic impact this surgery costs meant for our family.
We also need to leave clear that, since this is a Charity donation campaign, we're not in a good situation enough to give anything back for these donations (and don't even know what or how we could give...). We only have our eternal thankfulness to give back.
ANYTHING HELPS.
Thank you very much.
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(Español)
Gina, Ahora tiene de cincuenta y nueve años de edad, nacida en
Oruro Bolivia.
Desde sus cuatro años de edad sufre de artritis crónica deformante, una gran parte de su vida la enfermedad le obligaba a estar postrada e internada en hospitales, asumiendo gastos enormes, ya que le colocaron prótesis de las dos caderas y las dos rodillas. Aún a pesar de ésto, ella ha llevado a cabo sus estudios y ha trabajado como Periodista por varios años en las radios de Oruro.
En julio de este año fue sometida a cirugía de rodilla derecha, colocándole una prótesis, la misma que costó 5000 dólares; después de mes y medio de la cirugía, presentó dolor en la cadera derecha, probablemente a causa de la mala calidad ósea causada por la artritis, y supuestamente por la mala manipulación durante la cirugía de rodilla.
Luego de presentar mucho dolor consulta nuevamente en traumatología donde se constata mediante la radiografía (mostrada arriba de éste párrafo) que la prótesis de cadera había sufrido daños irreparables y había que reemplazar.
El costo de la nueva prótesis de cadera es de 30.624 BOB (pesos bolivianos), que equivale a 4.400 dólares estadounidenses (1USD = 6.96 BOB). Proforma indicada a continuación.
Es necesario aclarar que la cirugía ya ha tomado lugar el Jueves 22 de Septiembre, siendo de carácter urgente e inmediato, por lo que para lo que varios familiares hemos hecho todo lo posible de forma local y logrado juntar la cantidad necesaria, pero dado que varios de éstos familiares somos personas de medio-bajos recursos, quisiéramos por medio de ésta campaña recuperar todo el dinero que sea posible, para recuperarnos a su vez del impacto económico que significó para nuestra familia el costo de ésta cirugía.
Cabe igualmente aclarar que ésta es una campaña de donación, y desgraciadamente no nos encontramos en situación de dar recompensas por tales donativos, (tampoco sabemos realmente qué, o cómo...) solamente nuestra eterna gratitud.
CUALQUIER CANTIDAD AYUDA
Muchas gracias!
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