NATSASHA & ANTON - GOOD NEWS!!!

[Magdalena Smoczynska]

Dear Colleagues!

I am happy to give you some very good news about 
Anton Gagarin. Yesterday, after the most recent bone marrow 
test was performed the doctors have declared that the child 
is in remission. They will continue the chemotherapy 
for quite a long time to make sure that all the bad 
cells are killed, but they are rather optimistic. 
For the time being they do not think that
a bone marrow transplantation would be necessary, 
but of course this can change. 

Another good news is that the insurance company 
by which Natasha is insured agreed to take over the 
costs of Anton's treatment. This means that 
WE STOP THE ACTION OF COLLECTING MONEY. 
We hope we would not have to start it again. 
Whatever money is left from what has been collected so far 
will be kept to be used for Anton in case some extra 
need arises or to cover his further treatment next 
year, after his German insurance expires. 

I want to tell you that the donations you made, 
whether large or small, were of crucial importance and have 
contributed to secure the financing of Anton's treatment 
at this extremely difficult transitional stage. I think 
that we really helped this little lad to have a better 
chance to live. We also supported our colleague who was 
having a very difficult time. 

God bless you all!

I would like to especially thank those of you who acted 
as local organizers of help actions and who spent their 
time to help Anton. To give you just a few names: Wolfgang 
Dressler, Sabine Klamfper, Sylvia Moesmueller from Vienna, 
Austria; Giuseppe Capelli from Pisa, Italy; Ann Lindvall 
from Lund, Sweden; Camilla Wide from Helsinki, Finland; 
Kirsten Meyer Bjerkan from Oslo, Norway; Barbara 
Zurer Pearson from Amherst (U. Massachusetts) US; 
Wayles E. Browne from Ithaca (Cornell U.), US... 
There are other people whose help was really crucial 
at different stages of the entire help action: 
without Wolfgang Dressler, Wolfgang Klein and Dagmar 
Bittner all this could not be organized. I am afraid 
I still forgot somebody...  

Some of these people are Natasha's personal friends 
and colleagues. But some of them NEVER MET HER (like 
Barbara Pearson!) They are to be admired and thanked 
for their generosity and solidarity. Many other people 
not only made donations but looked for information, 
contacted organizations and so on... Thank you all! 
Barbara Pearson will circulate her report about money
collection in America.
 
Those of you who forwarded my appeal for help to other 
lists and groups of people or made your own appeals, 
please make other people know these good news and call 
off the action of money collection.

I hope to finally get Natasha's and Anton's photos on 
my home page 

     http://www.filg.uj.edu.pl/~ulsmoczy/

They are not yet there, but they will be there. I promise.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU! IT IS COMING.

Magdalena Smoczynska


Appended is the list of people who have contacted me about
Anton, money donations etc. since the last circular was 
posted

From: Ekaterina Protassova <protasso at cc.helsinki.fi>
From: Evalda Jakaitiene <jakeva at pub.osf.lt>
From: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk <dkasia at ifa.amu.edu.pl>
From: Giuseppe Cappelli <beppe at ilc.pi.cnr.it>
From: Ann Lindvall <Ann.Lindvall at ling.lu.se>
From: Stefanie Geldbach <stefanie.geldbach at student.hu-
berlin.de>
From: Ralf <Ralf.Vollmann at kfunigraz.ac.at>
From: Stella Ceytlin <stl at ceytlin.spb.su>
From: Barbara Mueller <babsi at vulcan.ipf.hu>
From: Ursula Doleschal <ursula.doleschal at wu-wien.ac.at>
From: Ann Lindvall <Ann.Lindvall at ling.lu.se>
From: LHFarmer at aol.com
From: Dagmar Bittner <dabitt at zas.gwz-berlin.de>
From: Pawel Wojcik <wojcik at plearn.edu.pl>
From: Elzbieta Tabakowska <etab at vela.filg.uj.edu.pl>
From: Ineta Savickiene <Ineta_Savickiene at fc.vdu.lt> 
From: Wim van Dommelen <wim.van.dommelen at hf.ntnu.no>
From: Vladimir Garistov <garistov at inrne.bas.bg>
From: Shanley Allen <Shanley.Allen at mpi.nl>
From: Chris Sinha <chris at psy.au.dk>
From: Marianne Kilani-Schoch 
<Marianne.KilaniSchoch at efm.unil.ch>
From: Alexander Brock <phimiab at rzaix340.rz.uni-leipzig.de>
From: Barbara Zurer Pearson <bpearson at comdis.umass.edu>
From: Dorit Ravid <doritr at post.tau.ac.il>
From: Edy Veneziano <Edy.Veneziano at pse.unige.ch>
From: Onederra Olaizola L. <fvponoll at vc.ehu.es>
From: Michal Legierski <michal.legierski at slaviska.uu.se>
From: Esther Dromi <dromi at post.tau.ac.il>
From: Hans Goetzsche <goetzsche at hum.auc.dk>
From: Antonio Raschi <raschi at sunserver.iata.fi.cnr.it>
From: E. Wayles Browne <ewb2 at cornell.edu> 
From: Vladimir Garistov <garistov at inrne.bas.bg>
From: Joachim Grabowski <fpjg at rumms.uni-mannheim.de>
From: Sigrid Adam <SIGRID at ling.univie.ac.at>

doc. dr hab. Magdalena Smoczynska
Katedra Jezykoznawstwa Ogolnego i Indoeuropejskiego UJ
Dept. of General and Indoeuropean Linguistics
Jagiellonian University
Al. Mickiewicza 9/11
31-120 Krakow, Poland
tel. +(48) (12) 6336377 ext. 302
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