Sirs,
My name is David Smith and I, unfortunately for my sick fiancee, live in these United States of America. This love of my life is Gergana Stoyanova who is 27 years old and the single mother of our son, Emmanuelle, who is 6 years old. They are originally from Bulgaria, but because of me... for me, she moved away from everything and everyone she knew to live in another country so it would make it easier for me to be with her and our son. We met at a concert here in the States over 4 years ago, and spent a week together, but she went back to Bulgaria after her visa ran out. We have been in love from the moment we first saw each other and engaged for the last two years.
After we were engaged was when I convinced her to move from her home, away from her family and friends, to live in Portugal. I sent the woman I love to live in a country in which she knew very few of the people and none of the language. We decided together to do this, but she went because she loves me, and she trusted me to be with her within a few months at the most. Our decision was based on the facts that I needed both a visa and a passport to visit Bulgaria, but I only needed a passport to enter Portugal. Not knowing the difficulties ahead of us... ahead of me, trying to get my passport and a ticket to Portugal, she has been trustingly waiting two years now, since our engagement and our naive decision, for me to come to her.
While she was still living in Bulgaria, doctors found that Geri was very sick during a visit to the Emergency Room one night when she was feeling very tired and very ill for a healthy, 23 year old girl. They told her that they had found cancer in her and that she would probably lose one of her kidneys. Scared and with not much warning at what was happening, within hours she was signed into the hospital, and then prepped for surgery as soon as they could arrange it. Supposedly, they had removed it all, and after some 72 hours or so in a coma, my love made a full recovery. Or so we had thought at that time. Now, we have learned that the doctors in Bulgaria did not find everything and Geri's cancer is back. It is worse than it ever was.
The doctors, in Spain where she now lives, discovered the cancer had returned in force. They told her that she would not live very long if she did not admit herself into the hospital and allow them to remove what they have found. If she survives the surgery, and they are able to eliminate everything they have found, she will also need to survive the chemo or radiotherapy regimen that will be set up for her. But... they wanted to be paid. They would take half the payment owed during admittance and Geri could pay the last half before leaving the hospital. Wow...
Total cost: 13,000 euro, give or take.
Our Net Worth: 500-1000 euro... maybe.
We had no idea of the problems that would soon crop up that constantly delayed our union... delayed my coming to her, or we had decided that if we could get a spousal visa, her and my son coming to me! Helping my mother with her home and financial situation, aiding my children from a prevous marriage, my own cost of living in Tennessee, and other inconveniences caused us to lose our apartment in Portugal. Gergana had to move to Spain to live temporarily with Kali, the mother who did not want her, who when Geri was a baby, gave her to her grandmother in Bulgaria to raise while Kali started a new family with a new man in Portugal. Kali still does not want her and even found a way to get rid of her while also paying for Geri's medical needs. How much is the person you love worth? What is her monetary value? To me, she is priceless! What Kali, her mother, has intended for Geri to do makes of my fiancee another man's whore. To make matters worse, we have to give her "mother" 400 euro a month to care for our son.
Her mother and an uncle on her mother's side found a way to provide the money needed, and also at the same time, a man to marry Geri that was not me who they have hated from the beginning. Kali, even knowing her daughter was fighting for her life, gave her an unfair ultimatum. selling herself to this man that has the money to. They brought a man with money to sell my fiancee to. He left a credit card before going back to his job which takes him away sometimes weeks at a time, and told Geri that if she would live with him she could use this card to pay her medical charges.
I am in agony for what she has had to do, and she is almost insane with this insane solution, as well. She wants nothing to do with this man but she wants to live, and I want her to live. She hates herself for needing to do this! She asked me if she should just die instead of doing this. She asked me if I would come save her from this person if I told her to live and she used his money! In three months I will have the money to pay him back but he does not want that... he wants MY love! Like he is living in a damned soap opera! He thinks he bought my fiancee with a credit card. Gergana used this card to pay the half of the money the hospital wanted and will use it again, if needed, to pay what is owed when this is over. She went into the hospital in Spain, on the 24th of September and expects to go into Surgery on the 29th. She is alone and scared. Anyone would be in her situation. She has nobody that cares enough to be with her during this time except me and I cannot do anything until I am paid in late November or mid-December.
I love her so much, but I fear for us when this man decides to try to take what he thinks he is owed for his money. Gergana and I have come up with many ways to delay the inevitable if she survives the cancer, but one day, if I am still absent from her side, no matter how hard my love fights... she is just a tiny thing and she fears so much that this man will collect and make of her a whore. This will be the second time Geri has been beaten and used like a slut! I am so scared of what this will do to her mental state when she almost never survived the first rape by Rumen and his friends! Now she is to be raped again, because I know Geri... she will NEVER give herself willingly to someone she does not know... does not love.
We do not know what to do. She does not deserve this! If there was some way to get the help we need; to bring me to her side when she needs me the most... to stop what this man is going to demand he is owed, please... help us! I will do ANYTHING I need to do to pay back any help we are given! I will even sell one of my kidneys if your organization knows of anyone needing one. I trade a life for a life. That is fair.
If there is nothing your organization can do to help, please point us in the direction of anyone that you think might possibly be of aid to us.
Thank you for listening,
David Smith
phone # 321-298-2719
Gergana Stoyanova
phone # 34617978743