The story of one operation

After 12 hours, the daughter of the tractor driver farm "Vadaktay" lying on the cold operating table in the capital of the USSR.
For the Tu-134, the alarm raised by one Friday night in Lithuania, "clean" air corridor to Moscow itself. Managers know - in the empty cabin flies young passengers. The first link "relay good" how to write a Lithuanian newspaper, and after them, and all the rest. Legs lined with frozen fish, fly to a nearby seat. The porthole - Moscow dawn takeoff on the field - with the included motor Capital "soon." And in the waiting room at Children's Hospital of young surgeon Datiashvili - called directly from the house, from the bed - waiting for an urgent flight from Lithuania. "It - it is not" - towards each machine with a red cross. "The authorities did not give the go-ahead, no one did more such operations - says Datiashvili. - That goes wrong - I do not live. " 12th hour since the tragedy ...
- Carried on a stretcher - tiny body merges with a sheet. Shouts feet where? Peremorozheny feet, the floor falls fish ...



Ramaz Datiashvili says, operated in the same breath. Crosslinking the vial with the vessel, artery artery, nerves, muscles, tendons. 4 hours after the start of the operation exhausted his assistant that he could hardly have found a sleeping Moscow: nurse Lena Avtonyuk ("her exams session") and colleague Dr. Brandt ("you have it now a famous person"). Ramaz sewed one: even tendon, another nerve. "I both went high wire: worth a look back - and you fall ...»
At 9 o'clock, when the last stitches were placed, small heels in her hands warmed doctor ... Abyss was behind ... & quot;
My parents remember how sincerely worried about Ras entire country. Race legs sewn in Moscow, doctor, do the operation, was Georgian. Anyone and would not have to think about her nationality.