Dear founders, initiators and active members of the Association for the Promotion of Children with Cancer Halle (Saale) e. V., it is nice that you exist and it was good that we are supported by you. After Marie's diagnosis we ended up in the pediatric oncology department of the UK Halle. Our lives were suddenly different and had to be reorganized. The concentration that one needs in this situation is disturbed by a carousel of emotions that one cannot and does not like to describe. We were given…
We became aware of the existence and offers of the association rather by chance in the year 2000. At the beginning of September 2000 we came with our daughter Natalie to the children's ward 1 of the university hospital in Halle because of an MRI examination. The first few nights I, as Natalie's mother, was able to stay in the room with her, but this was no longer possible after the necessary operation. Through a conversation with a nurse of the ward, I became aware of the possibility to stay…
we are family Kranz from Ilsenburg. In July 2017 our life changed abruptly.
Our then 4-year-old daughter Mette was diagnosed with leukemia.
We were sent directly to Halle the very evening after receiving the results of the blood test from our family doctor. At first we didn't know what was going to happen to us. Everything went bang on the spot and it was like a horror movie for us. Our little ideal world collapsed like a house of cards within a few seconds. The first night in the…
You have certainly made the difficult time much easier for many children and parents. For us it would have been unimaginable without you. No matter what was on our mind, you were and are always there for us. Whether it was bureaucratic, organizational, uplifting conversations and drying tears.
But the most important thing is that you always managed to put a smile on the face of our seven-year-old daughter Luzi, even when she was sometimes not…
