{"id":117,"date":"2015-11-07T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/?p=117"},"modified":"2015-11-27T18:57:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T18:57:54","slug":"bogdanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/bogdanka.html","title":{"rendered":"Bogdanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bogdanka
\n(Her name means God\u2019s present)
\nThe car was driving into the yard right up to the horses. I got angry. How
\ncan they be so impudent to drive into the yard of the farm! The door of the
\ncar opened and a lady and a man and young boy got out of the car. the man
\ntook out a wheelchair and lifted a young girl from the back seat. A very
\nenthusiastic, lovely young girl looked at me smiling, I felt ashamed for my
\nanger, she sits in the wheelchair and cheerfully looked around at the farm.
\n– I am so anxious since early morning! – She said. \u2013 Finally I can ride a
\nhorse for the first time in my life!
\n– she said \u201cgreat! Look mummy, there is a little pony! I was longing for
\nyears to stroke one\u201d
\nI took the pony close to her. She tried to touch the animal but couldn\u2019t reach
\nit. I pulled the poney called Mokan closer and let him graze. Bogdanka\u2019s
\neyes were sparkling from happiness and it felt wonderful that I could give
\nher such a possibility. That moment was wonderful for both of us!
\nAfter few minutes she was sitting on the back of the horse. Her hands were
\nshaking from excitement and she forgot to breathe. Olena, our therapist
\nasked her several times:
\n– Bogdanka, breathe!!!
\nShe was clingling convulsively, tried to smile but couldn\u2019t. She had to
\nconcentrate strongly to stay on the back of the horse. All movements were
\nnew to her, new feelings, new motions. She was supported from one side by
\nthe therapist from the other side by her strong, caring brother.
\nStand by us Foundation
\n–
\nI was smiling inside myself, as I knew this was the goal. Down in the
\nwheelchair she feels very small and insignificant. From the back of the horse
\nthe whole world looks different! She could see everything from a different
\naspect. The feeling must have been similar to the time when she was able to
\nwalk when she was eight years old and could run around in the schoolyard.
\nBogdanka had a brain tumour when she was eight years old, she had to fight
\nstrongly to survive but she didn\u2019t gave up. The doctors prepared her
\nparents for the worst but they didn\u2019t know that Bogdanka had spirit, she lay
\nin coma for six months. Her mother told me with pain in her eyes the story
\nof the girl. I was standing there and felt dizzy.
\nThat was the moment when I felt for the first time our work is really
\nimportant.<\/p>\n

\"Bogdanka<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\"dreaming<\/a><\/p>\n

Healthy Bogdanka at 8 years old.\u00a015 years old after surviving a brain tumor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bogdanka (Her name means God\u2019s present) The car was driving into the yard right up to the horses. I got angry. How can they be so impudent to drive into the yard of the farm! The door of the car opened and a lady and a man and young boy got out of the car. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standbyus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}