“I thought my leg.
Was torn off.
But I was more worried.
About my son and wife.”
A wounded family from Chernihiv.
Is being treated in Ohmatdyt.
The family has to go through.
A long healing process.
The son is only.
6 years old.
Before the war, he went to.
The first grade in school.
His favorite subject.
Was mathematics.
Chernihiv was under constant shelling.
Since the first days of the war.
The school, which the boy.
Loved so much.
Was also damaged.
During the attacks.
After the first week of the war.
The apartment where.
The family stayed.
Had no heating and electricity.
After another three days.
The water was turned off.
The family lived using only.
A few liters of water.
That they managed to stock up.
On March 17, they used.
All the water they had.
They decided to split up:
The father would go.
To look for water.
And his wife and child would be.
Heading to the bomb shelter.
But as soon as.
They left the building.
The shelling started.
They heard the first blast.
It was a cluster munition.
“Everything around me.
Started exploding.
The windows in the house were broken.”
“I felt that something hit my leg.
And I was in a lot of pain.
Then there was an explosion.
Next to my son.”
“We all fell to the ground.
And my wife and I.
Tried to cover the child.
With our bodies.”
“I thought my leg.
Was torn off.
But I was more worried.
About my son and wife.”
6-year-old boy.
Received abdominal injuries.
Multiple shrapnel wounds.
To his legs.
A fracture of.
The lower limb and.
2 fragments were stuck.
In the child’s back.
His mother suffered.
Identical leg injuries.
The shrapnel cut.
Her artery.
He immediately pulled.
The belt of the bag.
Around his wife’s leg.
To stop the bleeding.
The father says.
He was surprised.
To see his leg.
Was still there.
“I thought my leg.
Was torn off.
But I was more worried.
About my son and wife.”
The son, the mother.
And the father were taken.
To different hospitals.
In Chernihiv.
They saw many wounded and dead.
On the streets and in hospitals.
For four days.
The parents didn’t know.
The whereabouts of their child.
All the family members.
Were badly injured.
And couldn’t move.
The doctors didn’t know.
The name of the 6-year-old.
So he wasn’t registered.
Under his name.
But, in the end, the parents.
Were able to find their son.
The family hasn’t seen.
Each other for 16 days.
The boy’s injury was so severe.
That Chernihiv doctors had to.
Remove over 60 centimeters.
Of his intestinal.
Volunteers helped the family.
Evacuate to Kyiv.
To continue.
Their treatment there.
The entire family is now.
In the Ohmatdyt’s department.
Of orthopedics.
And traumatology.
Our doctors performed.
Surgeries for all victims.
And removed the fragments.
From their bodies.
“I thought my leg.
Was torn off.
But I was more worried.
About my son and wife.”
A wounded family from Chernihiv.
Is being treated in Ohmatdyt.
The family has to go through.
A long healing process.
*Because I read ““I thought my leg was torn off, but I was more worried about my son and wife.” A wounded family from Chernihiv is being treated in Ohmatdyt” on the website of OHMATDYT.
So, I wrote this poem as a story of Oleksandr, Natalia and Daniel.
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