They both got sick. They both treated in the hospital in Białystok. And this is where their loved ones met and stood. Olek and Basia are the heroes of the photo exhibition “State Kluseczków”, which shows how their friendship developed when they fought with leukemia. One day Olek asked Basia if he would be his fiancee. She replied: Yes, my dumpling. From that moment they began to call each other “dumplings”. This is how their story began – the boy's mother Paulina Obienieta recalled.
A photo exhibition entitled “State Kluseczków” by Magdalena Topczewska. He tells the story of Basia and Olek, who met in the children's oncology ward. They suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. They fought a difficult but successful fight with the disease.
Mama Olka, Paulina Obiesyta, told TVN24 reporter Joanna Wyrwas, from where the idea for the name “Kluseczków” came from.
One day Olek asked Basia if he would be his fiancee. Basia replied with great pleasure: Yes, my dumpling. It was so cute. From that moment they began to call each other “dumplings”. That's how their story began – she said.
“Olek asked Basia if she would be his fiancee. She replied: Yes, my dumpling”Tvn24
When they couldn't be with them, they looked at each other through the hospital door
She mentioned that there was a time when children “had difficult contact with each other.” Olek then had nine -month insulation.
– But we used messengers. There was also a knock on a hospital door or a wall. One was just waiting for the other, whenever they appeared in the corridor so that they could at least visually, at least for a moment to talk to each other – she said.
Basia has already left the hospital, but she is still seen with Olek. – We participate in the birthday, we arrange for weekends together. We are also waiting for some joint outings, for example for a playroom. The cinema was already passed, of course. As time allows us, we meet – said the boy's mother.
She also noted that WOŚP's help can be seen in the hospital “at every step”. These are equipment that monitors vital functions in patients and armchairs where parents can sleep, watching with their children.
History of Basia and Olek's relationship in the picturesTvn24
They both fought with the diseaseTvn24
“We tame cancer in children, because the cure is very high”
The organizers of the exhibition are Dr. Małgorzata Sawicka-Żukowska, head of the Pediatrics, Oncology and Pediatric Hematology Clinic of the University Children's Clinical Hospital in Bialystok, and Magdalena Topczewska, who took photos.
– We always say that we tame children's oncology, cancer in children, because cure is very high. And I think that this exhibition Magda has prepared is proof for this. “The Kluseczków”, Oluś and Barbara, this is a really unique couple and everyone who met them at least once knows that this exhibition says everything about them exactly – emphasized Dr. Sawicka -Żukowska.
Next to the exhibition, the book Dr. Sawicka-Żukowska had its premiere. “Saga of the Kluseczków family. Olek and Barbara in love couple”.
The exhibition “State Kluseczków” as part of the Great Orchestra of Christmas CharityTvn24
Source of the main photo: Tvn24