House Details 1
In this issue, we had the honour to help Miss Marta de Jesus, with 450€. (please read the magazine's philosophy, in the field About Us)
Marta has spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and a serious scoliosis. She's an ostomized person, doesn't have bladder as a result of a urostomy. Marta was subject to 36 surgical interventions, to the head, spine, hips and feet, among others.
mother's phone number: 00351 936635183
(2018 April 21th)
House Details 2|3
In this issue, we had the honour to help Miss Adriana Carvalho, with 450€.
(please read the magazine's philosophy, in the field About Us)
Adriana has cerebral palsy, is blind and has epilepsy.
Her level of disability is 100%.
Already had operations to the eyes (four), the basin and the column.
We thank to Salvador association (www.associacasalvador.com),
because it was throught a survey that we carried out on their out on their website,
that we were aware of Adriana´s situation.
Father's cell phone: 00351 939427021 (November 2018)
House Details 4 - Volume I
In this issue, we had the honour to help Mr. Rui Rosinha with 450€. Rui was one of the Firemen, burned in the fire of June 17, 2017 in Pedrógão Grande; Due to the very high temperatures that he was exposed to and the extremely long evacuation time, he had been in a coma for two and a half months to withstand surgeries and clinical procedures; had 20% of the deep and third degree burned body area. He suffered multi-organ failure, had to be connected to the ECMO machine, had 4 documented cardiorespiratory arrest. In six months of hospitalization was submitted to 16 surgeries. He had a severe motor-sensitive axonal polyneuropathy, which translates into severe pain in the lower limbs, lack of strength and atrophy of muscles and nerves, and other symptoms. It has the brachial plexus of the left arm "shredded", which translates into poor use of this limb and the hand of the same side, without strength and mobility. Rui has a certificate of incapacity of 85%. It depends on third person to dress, to put on, intimate hygiene, bath,etc. To Rui will be proposed a pension in the future, with the approximate value of € 270. Rui thinks that the Portuguese Firemen's League will support him at the time of the pension, in compensation for the remaining value of the salary he received at the time of the tragedy. Rui is no longer covered by the Insurance Company. Family contact: 00351 963939265 (2019 April 16th)
House Details 4 - Volume II
In this edition, we had the honor of being able to help Anabela with 450 €. Due to gravity, we transferred the money long before (June 19) the launch of the magazine. Anabela has already fought 3 tumors and now has a very advanced cervical cancer. The last resort, as announced on television, are specific vaccines provided in Germany. For more information and other donations, please contact the family: 934955200
(22 July 2019)
House Details 5
Having heard of a case on television we were expecting to attribute the donation to a young man who was receiving IPO treatment in Oporto, but due to his family’s refusal we established contact with the nearest IPO (Portuguese Institute of Oncology) in Lisbon.
We asked the collaboration of Dr. Célia Rosa to find a situation that we could support, at a certain point of our conversation, I mentioned that I could also ask the assistance of a retired nurse I know who had worked for decades at the IPO. Maria Victória Mourão, who is now 93 years old and of whom I have a deep respect and affection. Dr. Célia suggested that we support the IPO Patient’s home since they had a shortage of television sets in their bedrooms.
People hosted in this building were in great need, extremely ill and very often alone in Lisbon, most of them come from outside the district. It was fate that the day before our conversation Dr. Célia would receive the number of bedrooms that did not have televisions. Destiny wanted the nurse to be acknowledged because she rejects flattery and told me several times that she had no value for what others credit her for (which she rightfully deserves). Many decades ago, she was the person responsible for the creation of the Patients home of which Dr. Celia was talking about.
Long ago, the nurse fervently asked Dr. Vitorino Magalhães Godinho, then the minister of education (the IPO belonged to Education department due to the research they were conducting), to create a home for the sick (and their family members), especially for people that lived outside Lisbon, so that they could rest from the exhausting, and very harsh cancer treatments they were subjected to.
She insisted that it was very hard for them to come daily from far away, in their fragile physical condition. Additionally, many were in financial difficulty. That day, a home intended for nurses was being completed on the grounds of the IPO. Nurse Maria Victória, being aware of the situation, asked the Minister who was visiting another part of the Institute, all heartily, and in a justified way, that it should be allocated for the IPO Patients home instead. That was promised on the same day, and the request was granted and complied by the governing official.
Fate wanted that justice should be made by recognizing her actions, so we made our small contribution in the name of a great and extraordinary woman, responsible for a good that is impossible to quantify and according to so many people, she was an angel in that Portuguese Institute of Oncology.
We know that our contribution is small and that nurse Maria Victória deserves a public event of recognition, but, if all goes well, the cycle will not end with this action alone.
How many lives have been saved over the years, due to her fantastic actions? By allowing so many youngsters to stay in the hospital, and recover, how many children did they have? How many grandchildren came to know their grandparents who were in the IPO when they were not yet born? And what about the children of the sick who were saved, how much happier and better parents they became and in turn given birth to happier children?
I finish as I started in the title, this donation happens thanks to you, the reader. This is because I would also like you to realize that there is a lot of you in this story. In this donation there is a great deal of you who contributed with the televisions for the IPO Patient’s home and the joy they provided.
Sincere appreciation
Nuno
This time the donation was 570€, this amount permitted the purchase of 3 television and wall supports. IPO contact: Dr. Célia Rosa, telephone (+351) 217229800 Ext. 1947)
Photos: IPO Patient’s home entrance and the retired nurse Maria Victória Mourão (a little angel)