Moooonia, Monika wake up! Get up! You've slept long enough. That's enough now! Come back to us!

Together we can achieve more!

Let's help Monica get out of captivity, let's help her get well again.

Our beloved and only daughter Monika on an ordinary working day on the morning of 9 October 2024. she happily made her way to work.

She was very happy that she had got a job in her profession after graduating from the art academy.

But she was not to reach work, because her life map showed a turning point - a tragic road accident - or two in one.

One moment she was impetuously hit by a speeding deer that ran out of the forest onto the road weighing over 200 kilograms and a split second later she was struck head-on by a speeding vehicle travelling in the opposite direction.

Monica's heart stopped beating. She was trapped in the car, unconscious and showing no signs of life. The firefighters and medical team who arrived at the scene managed to restore circulation after several minutes of valiant resuscitation. They could not believe the miracle that had taken place.

In their opinion, victims with such injuries are lost forever at the scene of the accident.

After being transported by LPR helicopter to the University Hospital in Opole, Monika underwent a series of complex operations, including stabilisation of her crushed right hip, a broken leg and, above all, a life-saving neurosurgical operation, because, as the doctor told us at the first contact in the intensive care unit, Monika's head was almost torn off. She had broken cervical vertebrae from C0 to C3, both occipital condyles with inward displacement, a jagged spinal cord, numerous haematomas, also in the carotid artery, in the pituitary region (...). Her brain had been hypoxic for several minutes. According to the doctors, only the part of the brain responsible for breathing was in the best condition. There were legitimate concerns as to whether Monika would survive the night after the operation and whether the severely damaged spinal cord would be able to maintain her vital functions over a longer period of time. The verdict was that even if she survived, she would not be able to move her arm or leg, she would no longer have any contact because a significant part of her brain - frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes (...) - had died as a result of the prolonged hypoxia.

Monika survived and is alive. It is a miracle. Six weeks have now passed since this tragic accident. Our daughter, weakened by a serious orthopaedic operation, has won many battles. She has twice chased away pneumonia, twice defeated conjunctivitis and other septic bacteria that tried to take her away from us.

We have been with her every day since 9 October 2024. We drive 300 kilometres from our home to the hospital and back every day to talk to Monia, sing to her, play her music, massage her face, stroke her fragile hands, hands and feet, stimulate all her senses and receptors, stimulate her activity, her desire to return to our world. The doctors notice on the connected monitors that their vital activity increases significantly during our visits. This gives us hope and the strength to act.

We have our first successes. The doctors themselves looked at Monika in disbelief for a week. Monika opens her eyes, reacts to the time of day and night, reacts to light, has started to wiggle her eyes, has started to move her mouth, make her own unique faces, turns her head slightly from side to side, reacts very strongly to the lightest touch by bending both legs at the knees, can clench her hand involuntarily (...) and not so long ago she should not survive, she should not even bat an eyelid.

We try to let Monika participate in the awakening programme for adults in a cerebral coma, because Monika, whom we have not yet mentioned, is an adult, beautiful 29-year-old woman, a shamefaced virgin who was recently ready to start her own family.

We are in contact with a number of health facilities and hospital departments that offer this type of treatment for comatose patients and run 12-month programmes. They are, for example: "Budzik dla Dorosłych" in Warsaw, "Rehstab" in Limanowa, hospital in Częstochowa, in Jastrzębie Zdrój, in Brzeg or "Repty" in Tarnowskie Góry (...).

Unfortunately, everywhere you have to wait up to 12 months in the queue for admission, in each place 2,3 to 8 people wait in front of Monika. At the end of the year, each facility lacks the funds from the National Health Fund to subsidise treatment, and new limit decisions will not be made until the beginning of 2025. For Monika, however, every day of delay in vocational rehabilitation means less chance of returning to the world of conscious, reasonably fit and healthy people.

A private rehabilitation camp for Monika with professional medical care from a daily medical team, neurorehabilitation, neurology, music therapy, hydrotherapy, etc. costs around PLN 15,000 for a two-week stay in a centre. The monthly cost of attending a private rehabilitation programme, such as the one offered by Budzik in Warsaw, is around PLN 35,000 per month. Unfortunately, we can't afford that. We think that hardly anyone can afford such an expense, even if it is such an important goal in life.

I, Monika's mum, have already given up my job to be by Monika's side and support her healing process. In the situation we are in, I would not be able to dedicate myself to my work. At the moment I'm on sick pay due to a nervous breakdown, but in a few months' time I'll use up my sick leave (...). Monika's father works in a small private garage, and his income in the current situation is enough for the fees, the petrol for the daily journeys to and from Monika's home and for modest food.

Monika has been working, so for the time being she has accumulated sick pay, but she cannot use it herself, she cannot look after her own welfare, and we, her parents, do not want to and cannot dispose of her financial means for the time being, at least not until the court appoints us as her legal guardians, and that takes time (...).

In this situation, we turn to you, dear readers, for financial help, even if it will be the smallest possible amount that will help Monika and her parents in the first phase of Monika's treatment, i.e. ensuring her stay in a professional centre for the treatment of persons - awakening adults in a cerebral coma, as the hospital in Opole, where she is currently located, does not see any justification for her treatment in the intensive care unit or in the orthopaedics or other hospital department.

In the event that Monika, God forbid, is not eligible for any of the programmes because she has to meet certain medical criteria, or if she completes such a 12-month programme and it becomes possible for her to return home, we will use the money raised to adapt her place of residence to daily functioning and rehabilitation and to ensure professional care.

A big thank you in advance for any help, on our behalf and especially on Monika's behalf!