Snezhana began to lose her sight in infancy. At the age of just eight months, she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor in her right eye.
It was not possible to treat it. In order to keep her alive and stop the disease, doctors convinced her mother to remove the eye.
But after a few years, the tumor returned and tried to kill her again. This time the doctors gave up, they offered to remove the other eye as well.
On three occasions, Catherine refused to remove the eye. She did not want her to daughter to have another prosthetic eye. With the help of the Rusfond children's charity in Moscow she made it to America, where the tumor was killed at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Today she needs to return to New York to make sure the tumor hasn't come back.
Now, Snezhana is ten years old, she doesn’t speak, and she only has peripheral vision in her left eye.
What can she see with it? Something that even we, who have normal eyesight, often fail to see: a life.
Today she urgently needs to return to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to make sure her tumor has not come back.
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