Hello, my name is Smirnova Lyudmila Vladimirovna. I am the mother of a girl whose life was destroyed by a drunk driver.
Our arena is always growing like a whirlwind. We called her our fast sun: dances, sports school, swimming pool, endless plans and dreams. She wanted to be a lawyer, she was always striving for something. She was only 14 years old, and it seemed that the whole world was at her feet. But on August 4, 2024, a terrible tragedy occurred in our family. The summer then was normal and hot. My grandmother and I baked hot pies and waited for Arina at home. Then came the call that changed all our lives. Arina walked home on the side of the road. She didn't break anything. But the drunk driver lost control, and the car spun right into my house. What happened next was like a nightmare: ambulance, intensive care, severe brain injury, ruptured spleen, broken jaw and legs. Erina couldn't breathe on her own; They installed a tracheostomy. The jaw was reassembled using titanium plates. My daughter celebrated her 15th birthday in the hospital. She survived. But after that accident, the old Erina seemed to be gone. Epilepsy and cerebral palsy appeared, my arms and legs were almost useless, my speech, memory and thinking suffered. Until recently she danced and swam, but now she sits in a wheelchair and is learning to pronounce the simplest words again. My daughter's only chance to begin to understand me was constant therapy. We waited for the first results for months. Arina learned to lift her head, sit in the stroller, breathe and eat again on her own. I never thought that one day I would be so happy about things that once seemed completely ordinary.
But we can't stop. Now Arina needs a new rehabilitation course worth 735,000 rubles in order to further restore her movements, speech and memory. During these two years we spent everything we could. We will not be able to raise this amount ourselves. Please help my girl. I really want to believe that one terrible day didn't take away her future.