“I dream of forgetting about the walker”: Olena from Bakhmut underwent a rehabilitation course from the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation
Olena will always have shrapnel in her head after being injured in Bakhmut. She still has to rely on a walker and dreams of leaving it behind. A step towards this was a course of physical rehabilitation and psychological recovery in a sanatorium in Zakarpattia, which was provided by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.
“I’m very grateful, the progress is very big. In the morning we go to the salt room, it gives me positive emotions. I like water aerobics, although I do it not like everyone else, but as well as I can. I also go to two swimming pools, get massages, mud, and take herbal teas,” Olena shares her impressions.
Nowadays, the woman talks about the most terrible moment of her life – her injury – with humour. She says: I fell on my back from the explosion and immediately lost feeling in my legs – I was afraid to even look there. She was so shocked that she did not immediately recognise the military medic, thinking she was seeing a guardian angel.
Severely injured Olena was treated first in Kramatorsk, then in Dnipro and Lviv. The woman arrived at the sanatorium with post-traumatic injuries to her body and shrapnel in her neck. Oksana Fridmanska, a general practitioner, spoke about the positive dynamics of treatment.
“The patient’s blood pressure has stabilised, so we were able to perform procedures that were previously contraindicated. She receives treatment in a large swimming pool and a thermal pool, mud therapy, physiotherapy, massages, psychological help, etc. She feels good”, says the doctor.
As part of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation’s “Treatment and Rehabilitation for Wounded Adults” project, Rinat Akhmetov Foundation provides assistance to civilians in Ukraine who have suffered from shelling. The Foundation has already provided treatment and rehabilitation to over 11 thousand Ukrainians.
If you or someone you know needs help, please write to the Foundation’s messenger http://m.me/AkhmetovFDU or call the toll-free hotline 0 800 509 001 (the line is open from Monday to Friday).
