Operations are usually a last-resort option for back problems, however, even without surgery such injuries are very complicated. I have been dealing with a back problem since I was 15 (I'm 21) and no doctor has been able to resolve my issue fully, in large part because where I live there is a dearth of really good practitioners. External medicine can help alleviate back problems, but it must be done by excellent medical professionals. As the fed itself said it would pay for Anya to go abroad, I can only imagine the best external medicine practitioners for spinal health are not in Russia. And trust me, with a back injury, you want the best you can possibly get.
Sorry to hear about the problems you have been having with your own back. I hope that at some stage somebody will come along and work out exactly what is wrong with it and how to treat it. Because 6 years is a long time to be suffering.
It is awful when your health and wellbeing comes down to a postcode lottery.
But, getting back to our Anna, you make a very good point. If the Fed is offering to pay for treatment abroad, it shows that they believe that you have to go abroad to get the best treatment. Let's face it, they would not be making the offer if they thought Anna could get the treatment she needs within Russia. Because it would be cheaper for them to pay for treatment within Russia, and no organisation wants to pay more than they have to.
So this in itself is encouraging, as it shows that the Fed does care about Anna, and wants her to get back to full fitness.
Just a pity her coach doesn't feel the same...
I worked out with Santey that we could maybe put together a video for Anya stating our support, that her VK group could then send to her. If anyone is interested in this, please PM me. Other forms of support are also welcome, such as art and letters! I'll start working on it once my exams are over next week.
I really admire everybody's efforts to let Anna know that we care about her, and are thinking about her. You can count me in!
I am waiting for the day that Anna emulates the words of the song that she performed her most famous Gala programme to:
Waking in the rubble
Walking over glass
Neighbors say we're trouble
Well that time has passed
Peering from the mirror
No, that isn't me
Stranger getting nearer
Who can this person be
You wouldn't know me at all today from the fading light I fly
Rise like a phoenix
Out of the ashes seeking rather than vengeance
Retribution you were warned
Once I'm transformed
Once I'm reborn
You know I will rise like a phoenix
But you're my flame
Go about your business
Act as if you're free
No one could have witnessed
What you did to me
'Cause you wouldn't know me today
And you have got to see
To believe
From the fading light I fly
Rise like a phoenix
Out of the ashes seeking rather than vengeance
Retributionyou were warned
Once I'm transformed
Once I'm reborn
I rise up to the sky
You threw me down but
I'm gonna fly
And rise like a phoenix
Out of the ashes seeking rather than vengeance
Retribution you were warned
Once I'm transformed
Once I'm reborn
You know I will rise like a phoenix
But you're my flame
Reading the lyrics, they are so appropriate for giving encouragement to somebody in the situation Anna is currently in. So, I hope she does look back at them, and gets inspiration from them.
And that is before we even get to the inspiration she can get from watching the stunning routine she did to that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgP05nj_XzQ
Anna was absolutely amazing during that routine. And we know she can be absolutely amazing again if she gets the proper treatment that she deserves.
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