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The Swedish media are devoting space to the touching story of & rsquo; talent in the men's team of figure skating Majorov Alexander, who, for a noble cause, do not take & agrave; part in the upcoming national championships scheduled to Helsingborg.
Wednesday 9 December 2015 6 minutes reading time
The twenty-four native of St. Petersburg, but resident in Lule & aring ;, you & egrave; made available to donate bone marrow to his father Alexander Senior struggling with a severe form of cancer then transformed into leukemia.
& Ldquo; In June & rdquo ;, said the skater & nbsp; & ldquo; & egrave; my father was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer known as myelodysplastic syndrome, Since that time, no & egrave; It was simply exercising alone for obvious reasons. L & rsquo; only treatment that could have given good results with a survival rate of around 30/40% would be the bone marrow transplant. Doctors have tried in all the world a suitable donor, but nothing & egrave; found. Meanwhile, the type of cancer you & egrave; transformed into acute leukemia and my father & egrave; He was hospitalized. All this & egrave; I happened while I was going to play in the first race season in Lule & aring ;. Given the situation, the doctors have given the green light in order that & egrave; It was used in the bone model of us children, considering that my father does not have brothers. My brother, for & ograve ;, one of the possible donors, & egrave; still a minor, which is why I immediately made available. & nbsp; The preparatory phase began one week before the Volvo Cup Riga (early November). I was subjected to a series of exams and I & egrave; It was taken a blood bag to be used immediately after the & rsquo; intervention. Obviously, all this has had consequences and the rate of my blood count & egrave; I dropped from 173 to 140. I felt like when I get to train at high altitude and Riga & egrave; It was difficult to complete the short program because & eacute; I was shaking with fatigue. A week before the Rostelecom Cup, I underwent another draw a bag of blood and my blood count & egrave; I dropped to about 130. I have done everything possible to try to recover, but I did not succeed because & eacute; c & rsquo; had little time and was forced to retire. I preferred not to disclose the reasons for the waiver because & eacute; We did not want to create media attention around the story. Now for & ograve; no more & ugrave; way to conceal what is happening. Recently, & egrave; occurred l & rsquo; operation of extraction of stem cells from bone marrow and, now, I'm training because of the physical pain and lower blood levels. No potr & ograve; perci & ograve; take & ograve; the Swedish national championships. I hope that what has been done will be useful to save my father and pray in order that & egrave; medicine can give us a hand. I thank doctors, nurses and friends for their support. You are all heroes to our family & rdquo ;.
L & rsquo; objective of Majorov Alexander Jr., returned from a 2014/2015 season plagued by injuries of various sorts, it becomes to be able to return to compete at the European Championships in Bratislava scheduled in late January.
Alexander Majorov Senior, historical coach of his son three times national champion Swedish & egrave; competitive career was in a student of Alexei Mishin in St. Pietoburgo. He became coach and well before moving to Sweden, followed the first steps of the young Alexei Yagudin.
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