Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland

This story is just so sad, but on a positive 20k euro has being raised so far, and only a another 5k to go so that she can get a special medical flight.

thejournal.ie/young-mum-e20000-dying-wish-leukaemia-641662-Oct2012/

It show's no matter how hard a recession is going on, Irish and Polish people will still think of others before themselves.

Update, I just checked the online fundraiser, they now have almost 27k euro

a nice story to prove people are inherently good.

Update, the fund is now just over 28k euro,

The Irish are so generous with benefit gigs and fundraising .....

Same thing in the US. But when it comes to actually doing anything besides opening your wallet, suddenly all hell breaks loose.

Same as Poles, we do great with one-off crisis actions, but not so great coping with small everyday problems. Hope the Irish can deal better with the mundane stumbling blocks.

Anyway, the story has a very personal feel for me. A big thank you to everybody who's contributed.

Just checked, it is now 30,350euro

Support comes from the states too.

Let's pray for a miracle for her....

What if this is a scam?

How predictable - Europeans contribute, while Americans think that prayer will do.

How about asking your god why he wants to take someone like this from her family at such a young age?

OH my God!! This is the first time I actually agree with something you have written!!

Your embassy or community didnt want to know......

I did contribute??

Why the anger??

Doesn't actually say what she was doing in Ireland in the first place. Was she there on holiday?

no, she lives and works there but she wants to die in Poland.

I just don't get it. Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Poles 'live and work' in the UK and Ireland because I assume that Poland is such a dire and terrible place to live.

Is Poland a good place to die then? What makes it a better place to die than Ireland? Her relatives could go over to Ireland instead couldn't they?

Oxon, if you haven't got anything sympathetic to say, shut the f***up. This woman is dying. I had a friend who died of leukemia. It really isn't a 'nice' way to die. Her family probably works, would you expect them to quit their jobs and come to Ireland so that you can moan that there is more Poles in the Islands? She is not getting govermnent to pay for her trip back. You don't have to contribute. Have some human sympathy for another human being.

If I was dying I would want to die in Canada. My home country. Why is so outrageous that she wants to do the same.

you have also assumed wrong. Poland is not a dire and terrible place- but UK pays more than Poland- so they work for a short time and them come back and spend their cash in Poland.

Government agencies have contributed and the state took care of all her treatments and healthcare.

I dont know why her friend didnt request for state help to relocate her back to her family. They probably would have organised the governmental jet. Or else arranged for transport much less than the 20,000 euro quoted.

Bit weird.


This has been proven wrong, time and time again. In face, thousands more are coming each month(there were articles on it, WB posted a thread here).

Probably not the time nor the place, but.

thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4386927/.html

Her parents did. British, too.

omg! I agree with something pip wrote! lol ;)


+1

€ 33,821 raised by 1,299 people in five days.

Fook me pink !

I don't think embassies cover anybody's medical bills abroad. As for the community, they've already done a lot during her treatment. Also, the article says "So far the campaign page has raised €19,089" - so this amount was probably collected before the publication in the Irish media. I've read the blog. There were collections in Poland too, at sports events.


The girl had medical insurance in Ireland but it didn't cover all the costs of the treatment, part of it she had to pay herself. Now they're checking if any Polish clinic would agree to try any further treatment but as she has no Polish insurance, she would have to pay for that in full.

Her family have stayed in Ireland, to be with her and to take care of the child, which probably adds more to the financial burden as the cost of living in Ireland is higher than in Poland.


Actually, we have no governmental jet. The last one crashed near Smoleńsk. She can't go by ambulance and medical flights are very expensive.

Ours do. Within reason.


Its at 33,000 euro plus now. And the journal is a puff piece online paper. Great for candid articles, pretty useless for everything else.

The story was in the Irish Times 24 hours before the journal.ie picked it up.


VHI? Maybe, I dont know.

All legal residents are entitled to practically free healthcare in public hospitals. The hospital she was in is not a private hospital. So I doubt she had VHI.


Iam well aware of the Smoleńsk tragedy. I was talking about our jet. I am surprised her friend did not contact the Minister for Foreign Affairs to try and arrange a cheaper mode of transport. Gilmore is a decent skin and I have no doubt that he would have made it available to her and fam.

I understand she needs her medical equipment to be on board with her at all times, so normal air travel is out of the question. But charging 20 odd large to fly here home seems rather excessive.

A very sad tale and I hope she gets to enjoy her final moments with her fam and in her homeland.

Revoke, if her husband works legally in Ireland, the family is entitled to free healthcare under the EU law. So yes, government paid for treatments, but the guy paid taxes, so he is entitled to get medical care his wife needs. I don't know why they didn't ask for government flight, mayby just didn't think about it?

Not true!There were 2 TU 154 and one of them is still operational it is just that these "government" (bunch of crooks IMO) c u n t s are now affraid to fly on it.


One should never just assume anything.Poland is not dire nor terrible place to live it's just that wages are lower than in the UK and corruption,nepotism and croynism are rampant.

Dude, if my government flew her home in their government jet and gave her 100,000 euro to enjoy the rest of her life I wouldnt complain.

I wish this chick nothing but the best, but sometimes that doesnt flow across the interwebz.

I salute her fam and everyone whom donated the few euro but am just wondering if it could be spent better. Is all.

I do believe Chemo is considered meds and not covered.

I cant believe I got into an argument over this. I gotta look at myself in the mirror! hahaha!

My own moms passed from the same disease so I am kinda disgraced with myself for starting an argument over this..

Revoke, agree, no reason to argue, we all wish her well.