Please join us to help our dear friend, Malka Sima (Megan Dymzarov) Pais, to fight a rare and dangerous liver disease. Recently, her health took a turn for the worse -- She is facing liver failure and a possible liver transplant, without the finances to care for her and her family. We are seeking your help to support her healing during this difficult time.  

All of the funds will be directed to Malka Sima through her mother's (Marsha Dymzarov's) U.S. bank account. 

If you would like to make a tax deductible donation of more than $180, please email [email redacted] to find out how.

Thank you!
Leah Hartman, Sabrina Burger, Ziesl Maayan, Ketriellah Goldfeder, Elisheva Kirschenbaum and Janette Hillis-Jaffe
 

Malka Sima’s Story

Malka Sima (44yo) was diagnosed with Crohn's disease and a rare and poorly understood liver disease called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) when she was 16 years old. PSC has no known effective cure and usually leads to liver failure within 10-12 years. The only real option is a liver transplant, but PSC develops again in the new liver at least 20 percent of the time and post-transplant medications lead to complications like frequent infections, bone thinning (She already has Osteoporosis), diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and debilitating fatigue.

 

Remarkably, until recently, despite continual digestive symptoms, Malka Sima maintained an almost-normal quality of life. She has used a variety of strict diet and exercise regimens and alternative treatments to maintain her health against all odds, decades longer than most health providers thought possible. 

 

She has graduated university, worked as a community organizer, moved to Israel, married her husband Haim, and become a mother to two healthy, bright children, Yemima (14yo) and Hananel (11yo).  Malka Sima is a continually generous and creative spirit, always paying forward exponentially any kindness shown to her. She has coached and lead workshops on healing, prayer, dance, and whole foods, using her quest for health to help others with theirs.


A Turn for the Worse 

A few months ago, however; Malka Sima’s health took a dramatic turn for the worse. She turned “yellow as a lemon” as described by Israel’s top liver specialist, and had body-wracking fever and chills and uncontrollable itching.  She was hospitalized; told she was in danger of liver failure; and advised to take steps to begin preparing for an eventual liver transplant. 


Malka Sima is now back home, but is quite disabled. Due to extreme fatigue and other symptoms, she is only active for a couple hours per day and is very limited in what she can eat, often preferring only to drink, as digesting feels too difficult for her body. She rarely leaves her home unless it is in pursuit of healing. 


How We Can Help

Malka Sima currently needs financial support for two things: 1) Basic income to help cover daily living expenses for the next year or two, because she is now unable to work and her husband’s modest salary as a Jewish educator and Scribe does not meet all of their family’s limited needs. Without help, they are headed into debt and its accompanying stress and challenges. 2) Additional support to cover the out-of-pocket costs of the life-saving alternative healing modalities she has relied on for decades and some new ones to bring her to the next level. 


We want to give her the resources she needs to focus on healing enough to avoid a liver transplant and, short of that, to help her make it through the grave difficulties of a liver transplant in the very best health possible. Thank you for joining us!