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Maks needs your help!
After years of dealing with the Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, an autoimmune disease, a liver transplant was his only option for survival. The last few years, Maks’s health rapidly declined and in March he was placed on the liver transplant list. In mid-July, due to many complications he was at the death’s doorstep and nobody was sure of his survival.
July 29, 2014 was a miraculous day! We got news that they had a liver for him which he received in the morning of the next day, July 30!
Maks is recovering now and thanks to the incredible surgeons, we look forward to the beginning of getting him back.
Maks is a charming, gregarious, yet humble man, which is why he needs our help; the cost of a transplant is overwhelming and the medical bills are mounting.
Transplants are life-saving but financially draining. Even with insurance, Maks is facing very high expenses including post-transplant medications of up to $1,200 a month, which he will have to take for the rest of his life and co-pays, lab fees, and more.
To help with the financial burden of Maksim’s uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in his honor has been established with HelpHOPELive, a trusted nonprofit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for more than 30 years. All donations are tax-deductible, are held by HelpHOPELive in the South-Central Liver Transplant Fund, and are administered by HelpHOPELive for transplant-related expenses only.
Please consider making a contribution.
Thank you for your prayers, support and generosity. If we all work together we can make Maks’s prospects for the future much brighter.
With sincere gratitude,
Annabella Koloskov, Maks’s best friend and wife and Anastasia, his daughter.
713-446-6027
It's been a month since my transplant surgery.
I feel like a new man, my recovery is so remarkable that I feel guilty.
A slow shuffling of my feet during the first days became almost a normal walk by now. Fatigue usually knocks me out for most of the day, but I can deal with that. In general, every day I see some improvement, it's amazing how important is liver to the body function. My phone now is full of the alarms alerting me about the times to take my countless pills, checking my vitals, my blood sugar and doing insulin shots using all these little kits from the drug store I had no idea about before. Diabetes is something new to me, it is one if the side effects from the drugs I'm taking. They say it might go away, I hope for that, but in reality it's such a minor thing. I still think that I live through a dream that can end any moment. It is one of those " too good to be true" and it happened to me.
I am so enormously grateful for the gift of life that I received, and I am happy to be back.
It's been more than two weeks since the surgery.
The recovery is going great. My dog is happy because I started to walk with him and I don't walk fast. Not for too long little buddy.
I was reading something I wrote right before the surgery and thought to share it.
here it is:
I've never met you, I know nothing about you... and I so wish we could meet and talk.
There is so much I have to say to you.
This is one of the life's impossible puzzles. I will live now, I will have a future now, the huge weight just got lifted off my family. You made it possible and you won't even know it...
Life can unfold in such bizarre and unexpected ways.
It seems that just yesterday I was doing my regular runs, which gradually turned into jogs.
It seems just yesterday I had to ask the doc. to repeat what she said after pointing to a plastic model of the liver in its final stage of cirrhoses informing me about my condition. Then, I wasn't jogging anymore and became a slowest walking person on sidewalk.
Just less than two weeks ago I was saved only by an incredible skills, effort and risk taking of docs here at Houston St. Luke's Hospital.
Kurt Vonnegut once said that we are here on Earth to fart around. Well, a week ago I couldn't do even that.
So much have changed, and so fast.
I am thinking about my Annabella, how much have been on her shoulders, I am thinking about my promise twenty years ago to take care of her.
Several hours ago I got a call informing me that there is a possible liver much. I couldn't believe it and still can't believe what is happening.
I am thinking about how devastated right now are your parents and friends.
It's after five in a morning, in an hour they will put me under anesthesia and I will come back with a part of you.
Can't sleep, overwhelmed with feelings of relieve and sadness.
Keep thinking about the one who's gift saves me and why did you have to die.
I am grateful to you...
Thank you.
We want our old Maksimka back but with a new Liver...Please help us get him back to his old self.
Many of you know our story. It started almost 21 years ago when this crazy Russian offered to three architectural exchange students to see "Za Real Russia" and took them to his home town on the great Volga river. I was one of those students. And well... everything else is history. After having wedding in a middle of Russian winter I brought him back to Texas. Shortly after Anastasia was born and he never left Texas since.
This December we will celebrate our 20 year anniversary.
So this leads us to our next adventure....His liver transplant.
About ten years ago Maks started to have symptoms of what we later learned was an autoimmune condition called PBC.
We knew that PBC could eventually cause the need for a transplant but it was far in our minds since he was always running, biking and nature activities.
But Maks being Maks.... His liver decided differently and a lot has changed in past few years with more time spent in hospital than outdoors.
To our friends, family and anyone "fortunate" to hear "But in Russia..." stories.
We are asking to help us out, so we can share in his craziness and celebrate many more years together...
Thank you!
Annabella, Anastasia and Maks
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Tom & Simona,
You crazy Italians break my heart, you have so much passion in you and been always helping others.
Love you guys and thank you so much!
- Maksim
Very nice words, Maks, we donated $500 to the fund a couple of weeks ago, and can help out with more in the future as needed ... Simona and I are glad and grateful that you are doing well, and that this has been a tremendous success story and 'rebirth' ... take care, my friend. Tom
Tom & Simona
Make checks payable to:
Help Hope Live
Note in memo:
In honor of Maksim Maks Koloskov
Mail to:
Help Hope Live
2 Radnor Corporate Center
Suite 100
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA 19087
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