Help needed❗Two-year-old Tosia in tough battle with leukemia❗

Highlights

  • Diagnosis
    Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
  • Age of the Ward
    2 years
  • Location
  • Mentee
    Antonina Szymanska

Update

The next stage of treatment
Tosia has completed her intensive inpatient chemotherapy and has begun the next phase of treatment, which is maintenance therapy. Chemotherapy is now administered in pill form. The most important thing, however, is that Finally, I can go home!

Tosia is feeling much better. She’s started walking again and is trying to speak more and more often. It’s still clear that her body needs time to recover. As soon as her test results stabilize, the family would like to start occupational therapy for her, which will help her gradually regain her strength and support her development.
A difficult time during treatment
The return home is all the more eagerly awaited because The final stage of treatment was exceptionally difficult for Tosi and her loved ones. More than a month in the hospital, additional rounds of chemotherapy, complications, and pain so severe that morphine had to be administered made it a time full of challenges and very difficult moments.

The most important thing today is that Tosia is regaining her strength and slowly getting back to her normal childhood routine. Now this is happening at home, surrounded by her loved ones and at a slightly more relaxed pace. April 15, 2026

Explore the history of

Our baby daughter Tosia was just a year and a half old when the diagnosis turned our lives around in ways we couldn't have imagined.

From a happy baby, she became lethargic, stopped walking and had an unremitting subfebrile condition, and we parents began to look for the cause. An abdominal ultrasound, a urine test and culture, a blood draw. The result of the blood count showed many abnormalities, including a hemoglobin of 6.5. We immediately went to the hospital, where further diagnostics and blood transfusions were started. The next day, doctors informed us of the diagnosis - acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

At that moment, we had to suspend all of our previous lives. I gave up my job and discontinued my nursing studies because the only place I could be was in the hospital room at our daughter's bedside. We spent ten long, difficult weeks there, in which each day brought more anxiety and more questions. Antosia's dad, a paramedic who rescues others in liminal moments, faced an everyday reality that doesn't go away just because the disease stopped our family life. He combines work with caring for us, carrying a burden that is often beyond human strength in this reality.

Tosia underwent two sepsis, two broviac central catheter replacements, had a central catheter in her femoral vein leading to her heart... She suffered a lot. Chemotherapy caused her to stop walking, her facial nerve was also damaged, which caused her eyelids to droop, making it difficult to see as well.

Now our lives go on between long stays in the hospital and short moments at home - in our own bed.

Due to the type of disease and very low granulocytes , we have to live in almost sterile conditions. No contact with other people, family or friends. We disinfect all surfaces in the house and hospital room repeatedly so as not to expose Tosi to infection, and outside the house we have to stay in filter masks.


Constant examinations, checking platelet, hemoglobin and granulocyte levels are our daily routine. Every day we ask ourselves, can we go out into the hospital corridor today ? Will we qualify for the next chemotherapy ?

The treatment is very long... It lasts 3 years. This whole period is very difficult and stressful. Burdened with a huge risk of infection, at any moment sepsis and another threat to life can occur. We worry about every day, about every next cycle of chemotherapy, about later complications.

We are asking for your help. Help Tosia get through this journey and allow us to provide her with the best possible treatment. Your support and donated 1.5 percent of tax have a value for our daughter that cannot be measured. ❤️

There are children who enter the world of pain and silence too early. Antosia is traversing this path, although she doesn't yet understand its burden.

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Your e-PIT is the easiest way to settle your taxes. The IRS pre-fills your tax returns, and you can verify, approve or correct them.

  • Step 1 - log in to the e-Tax Office and use the e-PIT service.
  • Step 2 - in the PIT return form, click on Select an organization.
  • Step 3 - in the list of organizations, search for Cancer Fighters Foundation or enter the KRS number 0000581036.
  • Step 4 - in the field with the specific goal of 1.5%, indicate the Ward by entering the following data:
  • KRS No.
    0000581036
  • Specific objective
    Antonina Szymanska

Contributions and words of support

Anonymous
May 15, 2026
00zł 5.00
Cancer Fighters
May 6, 2026
Together, we won’t lose this fight!
3,908.00 PLN
Anonymous
May 4, 2026
20.00 00zł
Anonymous
May 1, 2026
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
20.00 00zł
Magdalena
May 1, 2026
00zł 5.00
Anonymous
April 30, 2026
PLN 50.00
Cancer Fighters
May 6, 2026
Together, we won’t lose this fight!
3,908.00 PLN
Jan
December 9, 2025
PLN 2,000.00
Michael
December 14, 2025
PLN 2,000.00
Daria
December 15, 2025
PLN 2,000.00
Cancer Fighters
24 / 11 / 2025
PLN 1,000.00
Sophie
28 / 11 / 2025
PLN 1,000.00
60,005.00 PLN(100%)
Goal achieved!
The collection was supported by: 525 people
  • Purpose of the collection
    Medications, rehabilitation, medical consultations, costs of ongoing treatment

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Help needed❗Two-year-old Tosia in tough battle with leukemia❗

60,005.00 PLN(100%)
Goal achieved!
The collection was supported by: 525 people
  • Purpose of the collection
    Medications, rehabilitation, medical consultations, costs of ongoing treatment

Highlights

  • Diagnosis
  • Age
    2 years
  • Location
  • Collection
    Antonina Szymanska

Collection target and updates

The next stage of treatment
Tosia has completed her intensive inpatient chemotherapy and has begun the next phase of treatment, which is maintenance therapy. Chemotherapy is now administered in pill form. The most important thing, however, is that Finally, I can go home!

Tosia is feeling much better. She’s started walking again and is trying to speak more and more often. It’s still clear that her body needs time to recover. As soon as her test results stabilize, the family would like to start occupational therapy for her, which will help her gradually regain her strength and support her development.
A difficult time during treatment
The return home is all the more eagerly awaited because The final stage of treatment was exceptionally difficult for Tosi and her loved ones. More than a month in the hospital, additional rounds of chemotherapy, complications, and pain so severe that morphine had to be administered made it a time full of challenges and very difficult moments.

The most important thing today is that Tosia is regaining her strength and slowly getting back to her normal childhood routine. Now this is happening at home, surrounded by her loved ones and at a slightly more relaxed pace. April 15, 2026

Explore the history of

Our baby daughter Tosia was just a year and a half old when the diagnosis turned our lives around in ways we couldn't have imagined.

From a happy baby, she became lethargic, stopped walking and had an unremitting subfebrile condition, and we parents began to look for the cause. An abdominal ultrasound, a urine test and culture, a blood draw. The result of the blood count showed many abnormalities, including a hemoglobin of 6.5. We immediately went to the hospital, where further diagnostics and blood transfusions were started. The next day, doctors informed us of the diagnosis - acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

At that moment, we had to suspend all of our previous lives. I gave up my job and discontinued my nursing studies because the only place I could be was in the hospital room at our daughter's bedside. We spent ten long, difficult weeks there, in which each day brought more anxiety and more questions. Antosia's dad, a paramedic who rescues others in liminal moments, faced an everyday reality that doesn't go away just because the disease stopped our family life. He combines work with caring for us, carrying a burden that is often beyond human strength in this reality.

Tosia underwent two sepsis, two broviac central catheter replacements, had a central catheter in her femoral vein leading to her heart... She suffered a lot. Chemotherapy caused her to stop walking, her facial nerve was also damaged, which caused her eyelids to droop, making it difficult to see as well.

Now our lives go on between long stays in the hospital and short moments at home - in our own bed.

Due to the type of disease and very low granulocytes , we have to live in almost sterile conditions. No contact with other people, family or friends. We disinfect all surfaces in the house and hospital room repeatedly so as not to expose Tosi to infection, and outside the house we have to stay in filter masks.


Constant examinations, checking platelet, hemoglobin and granulocyte levels are our daily routine. Every day we ask ourselves, can we go out into the hospital corridor today ? Will we qualify for the next chemotherapy ?

The treatment is very long... It lasts 3 years. This whole period is very difficult and stressful. Burdened with a huge risk of infection, at any moment sepsis and another threat to life can occur. We worry about every day, about every next cycle of chemotherapy, about later complications.

We are asking for your help. Help Tosia get through this journey and allow us to provide her with the best possible treatment. Your support and donated 1.5 percent of tax have a value for our daughter that cannot be measured. ❤️

There are children who enter the world of pain and silence too early. Antosia is traversing this path, although she doesn't yet understand its burden.

Donate 1.5% of your tax

Your e-PIT is the easiest way to settle your taxes. The IRS pre-fills your tax returns, and you can verify, approve or correct them.

Step 1

Log in and use the Your e-PIT service

Step 2

On the PIT return form, click Select Organization

Step 3

In the list of organizations, search for Cancer Fighters Foundation or enter the KRS number 0000581036

Step 4

In the field with the specific goal of 1.5%, indicate the Ward by entering the following data:
  • KRS No.
    0000581036
  • Specific objective
    Antonina Szymanska

Promote the collection

Download the prepared graphics and share them on social media. Encourage your friends to support and share. Put up a poster in your workplace, school, store. Every piece of information increases the chance of winning the Wards!

Every zloty and every share makes a huge difference. Help reach as many people as possible and increase the chances of this collection. Tell your friends, family and community - together we can do more!

Facebook
X / Twitter
WhatsApp
LinkedIn
Email
Threads

Contributions and words of support

Anonymous
May 15, 2026
00zł 5.00
Cancer Fighters
May 6, 2026
Together, we won’t lose this fight!
3,908.00 PLN
Anonymous
May 4, 2026
20.00 00zł
Anonymous
May 1, 2026
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
20.00 00zł
Magdalena
May 1, 2026
00zł 5.00
Anonymous
April 30, 2026
PLN 50.00
Cancer Fighters
May 6, 2026
Together, we won’t lose this fight!
3,908.00 PLN
Jan
December 9, 2025
PLN 2,000.00
Michael
December 14, 2025
PLN 2,000.00
Daria
December 15, 2025
PLN 2,000.00
Cancer Fighters
24 / 11 / 2025
PLN 1,000.00
Sophie
28 / 11 / 2025
PLN 1,000.00