photo by the First territorial medical union
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Mother Natalia Stepanenko and her daughter Yana, who lost their legs as a result of shelling at the station in Kramatorsk, received new prostheses in the USA. Now they are learning to walk again. This was stated in the message of the First territorial medical union of Lviv.
After several months of preparation for prosthetics at the Lviv Children’s Hospital of St. Nicholas, the mother together with her daughter and son went to San Diego in the USA for further treatment. A few days after their arrival, they immediately started training: actively undergoing rehabilitation and training to walk in prostheses.
The family managed to get to the US thanks to The Right to Walk Foundation and Peter Harsch, Peter Harsch Prosthetics.
Yana started swimming again, American friends are teaching the son, Yaroslav, how to fish, and Natalia is cooking Ukrainian borscht, worrying that she can’t find dill for it.
Soon, the Stepanenko will return home, and Yana, whose leg is growing, will have her next prosthesis in Lviv.
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We will remind that in April, Natalia Stepanenko and her twins Yaroslav and Yana came under fire at the Kramatorsk railway station while they were waiting for an evacuation train. Russian rockets took away one leg from the mother and both legs from the daughter. Before getting to the USA, the mother and her 11-year-old girl were travelling in wheelchairs.
Translated by Vitalii Holich
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