... I was born on the 7th of August 1976 at the town of Sevlievo. My parents were workers in local factories. I finished secondary school "Vassil Levski" with speciality - Management of commercial activities.
In 1996 I entered the University "Sveti Sveti Cyril and Metodij" at Veliko Turnovo with main speciality - Balkan science.
Charmed by love to archaeology and history I continued to develop this way. After graduating in 2001, I went to live in Sofia with a hope to receive a better professional realization of my ambitions. I had the great desire to do my master's degree in cultural tourism. This was a new speciality that could open widely my opportunities as professionalist.
Things were going well till the spring of 2003, when I was hospitalized in the Alexander’s Hospital for treatment. Soon after that it became clear that my kidneys were injured and till the end of the year my phisical condition got worse. It was a matter of time so that I be put in hemodialisys.
In the beginning of 2004 I was involved in the national system of hemodialisys treatment at the University hospital "Tsaritsa Ioana", Sofia. I met the cruel reality of the health care system in Bulgaria in the domain of the transplantations.
I soon realized, that even though I figured on the list for the waitings for kidney transplantation, my chances for operation were close to nothing. I was ready to give up when friends of mine gave me new hope and offered together to find donors and sponsors for that kind of an operation abroad. Activated by the will to solve my health problem and cordially supported by my friends I started a campaign of raising funds for kidney transplantation in Europe. However soon it became clear for me that it is beyond my ability to collect resources enough for kidney transplantation in Europe where in Germany and France an operation of this type costs 90 000 Euro whilst the time was expiring since the disease was progressing.
Thanks to many people who granted funds for me in March 2006 I went to Pakistan encouraged by the news of successful transplanations in their hospitals. The operation was conducted on the 15th of March and it passed well but when I was back in Bulgaria, I received a strong reaction of organ denial. I was operated by urgency twice and my life was saved. I spent almost an year in a hospital atmosphere and believed that things would turn to good. For this painful period I endured a few surgeries.
Unfortunately at the end of the year 2006 my kidney was removed, because it was no longer functioning.
Maybe it would have been normal to go to ruin and start feeling pity for myself or simply stop fighting but soon I realized that it was I and only I who was going to loose. This is my struggle - maybe the most important one in my life.Opposite to the expectation of many people, I gathered spirit and desire for life determined to fight for my lost health.
I wake up every morning with hope, that some day a new transplantation would occur to me and that the operation would be successful. I learned from my bitter experience that one must not wait for someone else to make one's dream come true, but one must try for himself with one's utmost strength. I’m 30 years old now and I don’t want to finish my life now. I’d like to live, to follow my dreams and to save myself from the hell of dialysis. This is only possible after a successful transplantation.
Besides that I would like to travel and to make a specialization in Europe and in the Near East, in order to visit other centers of civilization. In my opinion, this is the way to be useful to myself and to the others.
Turning to you people, who are not aware what men without functioning kidney feels like and how they live, and I’d like to say to you that the world would be more beautiful if we live together. I’m strong a personality with definite aims and desires. I’d like to believe that sooner or later my dreams would come true. For the time beeing I have a simple, but important dream – just a new kidney.
