Ksusha is a six-year girl from Saint Petersburg, Russia. She has a very severe, hard to cure disease - aplastic anemia. Since December 13th, 2005 the girl has been confined to the blood cancer chemotherapy department of the Children's City Hospital № 1 (Saint Petersburg). She is in the isolation ward together with her mother. Ksusha cannot leave the ward as the slightest infection will lead to sepsis and death. Her bone marrow does not function and she can only survive on transfusions of blood components. 

Multiple hemorrhages started to appear after the acute viral infection. They first appeared on my feet and later – all over the body.