{"id":12180,"date":"2024-05-06T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaks.hb-dev.de\/2024\/05\/06\/the-story-of-the-dindas-family-and-their-carlotta\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T13:29:53","slug":"the-story-of-the-dindas-family-and-their-carlotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kinderaugenkrebsstiftung.de\/en\/the-story-of-the-dindas-family-and-their-carlotta\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of the Dindas family and their Carlotta"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The story of the Dindas family is that of so many families.
\nToday, many years after the diagnosis, daughter Carlotta and the whole family are doing well.
\nAfter many ups and downs, the Dindas want to share their positive attitude to life, their whole personal story, with other affected families and, above all, encourage them: <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCarlotta is six years old.\nThe baby of the Dindas family from Hattingen.\nTwo years ago, her right eye was removed in an operation lasting several hours.\nCarlotta had a tumor behind her eye.\nA retinoblastoma.\nSince then she has had a magic eye.\nThat’s what she calls the glass eye she wears.\nShe emphatically tells a boy at kindergarten who thinks he has to tease her about her “funny eye”: “That’s my magic eye.”\nThe boy said nothing more after that.\nAs with so many children, the cancer was discovered by chance.\nMelanie Dindas remembers the day of the diagnosis very well.\nTogether with Carlotta and her two older daughters Antonia and Johanna, she had already spent two hours in the doctor’s office: “The doctor asked me to send Carlotta and her sisters outside, then he told me that Carlotta very probably had a tumor.”\nTears flow immediately.\nWho to call?\nWhat to do?\nWhat happens next?\nHusband Martin on a business trip; not available.\nThe children’s grandparents are coming.\nPerplexity.\nDespair.\nFear. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Melanie Dindas: “We had never heard of this disease before. Retinoblastoma. I didn’t want to and couldn’t research it online. My fear of what I would find out was so great.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHusband Martin researches and collects information on eye cancer in children, a malignant tumor that can lead to death if left untreated, but has a good chance of being cured if detected early.\nDuring his research, Martin Dindas came across the website of the Children’s Eye Cancer Foundation for the first time.\nMeanwhile, the doctors at Essen University Hospital confirmed the diagnosis and operated on the child just one week later.\nCarlotta does not complain about the lack of light in her eye.\nThere is only one thing she still remembers two years later, says her mother.\nCarlotta kept vomiting for over a week.\nThe child initially rejected the prosthetic eye.\nMelanie Dindas: “For the first three months, we wrapped her in a blanket when we wanted to remove or insert the prosthesis.”\nThat’s how much her daughter physically resisted it.\nBut how should they deal with Carlotta’s rejection?\nAnd what happens next?\nWho has similar experiences?\nIt takes a long time for Melanie Dindas to get online.\nShe also comes across the website of the Children’s Eye Cancer Foundation – and discovers Elli.\nThe cuddly elephant with the removable eye.\nElli – Melanie Dindas would also like to have one for her child.\nToday, Elli lies in Carlotta’s bed, has to go everywhere with her and is always “on hand” when Carlotta wants to show other children how to take her eye out and put it back in again.\nAt the last RB meeting of the Children’s Eye Cancer Foundation, the Dindas got to know other affected families who have had the same experience as them AND they met the KAKS encouragers, adults who have been living with the disease for a long time – wonderful people who radiate joie de vivre and give them no reason to despair about Carlotta’s diagnosis. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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