"We were happy before the invasion of the orcs", — started our first interview with Olya Yakovleva. On March 13, a Russian tank fired at her house. The woman was seriously injured, but her husband delivered her to the doctors in time.
In peacetime, Olya created video content for international brands and performers at the Radioaktive Film production studio. In a house in Kukhary, Kyiv region, she raised her "children" — four dogs.
That unfortunate morning, Olga's husband heard an explosion. He saw the three-layer glass in the door shatter and managed to bounce back. The man noticed smoke from the room where Olya had been with the dogs. The outer west wall of the first floor was almost destroyed.
Olga was under the interior door that flew out of the bathroom. A dog next to her had taken on the explosion wave and looked blankly out of the dog's paradise. Probably, the dog saved its owner’s life this way.
Despite multiple shrapnel wounds, Olga muttered something unconsciously. The husband pulled her out from under the wreckage, put the tire on her broken arm, and bandaged her head as best he could. He wrapped Olya in the first found jacket and pulled her out of the house to the nearest funnel.
They had six transfers through forests and bombed-out roads to the first medical center 40 km away. The military doctor removed coarse fragments from Olya's head without anesthesia. Then her husband took Olya to a hospital in Zhytomyr.
Doctors diagnosed a fracture of the first and second cervical vertebrae, multiple fractures of the head and body, and a fracture of the arm with displacement. But the skull suffered the most — sepsis began due to multiple debris injuries. For two weeks, doctors did everything possible to stabilize Olga's condition to start the necessary surgery.
Olga is currently in hospital in Kyiv, where she has already undergone the necessary surgery on her forearm.
The next stage of treatment will be surgery on the cervical vertebrae — the installation of the Medtronic system. For this purpose, it is now necessary to collect 100 thousand UAH.
The Future for Ukraine Foundation is opening a fundraiser for the Olya’s operation.
Each of us could be in her place. Help Olya return to normal life.
