An Adoption Story (S1): Alexei's Journey from Ukraine to NZ & Life with Eisenmenger Syndrome

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S1 EP1 (2023 Series) An Adoption Story: Alexei was born in Eastern Ukraine to then moving with his biological family to Velikiye Luki, Pskov, Russia. He was adopted into a New Zealand family at the age of eight.
At an early age he was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Eisenmenger Syndrome. He shares with me his journey, his outlook on life and the connections he has found overseas with his birth family.
This is his story.
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EP 1 - Alexei: Watching Now!
Alexei currently has a Give A Little Page (similar to a GoFundMe page) below:
givealittle.co.nz/cause/pleas...
Welcome! Here on my channel I share my journey, topics for adoptees, my vlogs, and support for others adopted, including their stories and journeys with my An Adoption Story series.
As a Russian-New Zealand adoptee, adopted at the age of two from an orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia, I share what I've been learning on my journey with my upbringing here in New Zealand, my current life, and how I connected with my birth family. I also share what my bloodline means for me with those connections from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Titles
00:55 What Alexei Remembers
07:37 The Video Tape
10:26 Going to New Zealand
14:09 Health Diagnoses as a Child
18:24 Life Changing Times for Alexei
22:30 Alexei's Search for his Birth Family
27:38 A Close Family Friend - Wendy Hawke
32:12 The Long Lost Family
34:31 Advice for Those Who Struggle to Find Information
37:39 Keeping Positive
39:41 Outro / The Journey Continues

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1 июл 2024

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@karinahornung816 Год назад

Thank you, what an amazing man, he is more Ukrainian than he can imagine! And once again, my deep respect to all those who go out there and provide chances to those wonderful children, either abandoned, sick or war victims. The families adopting children are true heros! A lot needs to be done to shift mentality towards bettering the world in that direction and creating rightful incentives for all those willing to adopt

@michellewinkler3985 3 месяца назад

This is one STRONG man!

@mountainmama7458 Год назад

Love his positive outlook in everything! Thank you for sharing your story Alexei.

@mamako7325 7 месяцев назад

Such a wonderful interview ! Many blessings to both of you ! ❤

@StaffanSwede Год назад

This was an interesting interview or, rather, an interesting talk. It was very personal and I almost felt as if I was sitting there with you. This way of creating a very close atmosphere worked very well for the topic and help the story telling a lot, at least in my opinion. I hope Alexei's dream will come true one day and I would also like to say Thank you to Alex for doing this and sharing it with us here.

@jennypalmer331 5 месяцев назад

Another amazing story. Thank you Alex for helping so many adoptees. I am loving the stories

@marsalz3379 Год назад

Thank you for sharing Alexei’s story. What a wonderful photographer as well.

@lindapearson8137 4 месяца назад

He was very much loved by his biological family, to give him up, hoping he could get the treatment he needed!

@siobhan7798 Год назад

Thank you for putting this on your RU-vid channel. It was great. Best wishes to Alexei for good health and I hope he gets to meet his Russian family.

@LesyaAbdulzade 6 месяцев назад

He is from Ukraine

@CarterKey6 Год назад

Amazing interview looking forward to more. Best wishes to Alexei

@mariannesnead6919 Год назад

Good for you to do these stories

@lkvenium2791 Год назад

Thank you so much, Alex for doing this. Alexey is a great man, I hope everything goes well in his life. I am so excited to hear more stories like this one. Because each story is different. It would also be very interesting eventually when things get better (I hope they get better very soon 😢) if you could film such story with Russian or Ukranian or in fact adoptee from any other country who was adopted not to a foreign country but the same one. Would be great to hear this side as well. My dream is to hear you interviewing one of my favourite musicians Svetlana Surganova. Who is also an adoptee. She was adopted at 1972 if I am not wrong. The problem is that she doesn’t even speak English. And there is a bunch of other problems and I know this will probably never happen 😂 But I am allowed to dream 😅

@lorrainegatzke1048 Год назад

Very moving interview 💖

@cathyann7183 Год назад

Really enjoyed this interview and hope for an in person meeting soon.

@sharimorris1021 Год назад

Thank you for sharing your stories.

@teamcougars 5 месяцев назад

What a sweet, articulate young woman ❤❤

@cherylsutherland9464 Год назад

Wonderful interview Alex, Alex why was Alexey put in a ORPHANAGE @ the age of four? He.is so interesting, It would be lovely to hear about his adoptive NZ family, I wish him good health, Long life,, & all of God's Blessings 🙏❤

@alexgilbert Год назад

Hello Cheryl! He was put into the Orphanage when he was four due to his heart condition when the family were unable to care for him. Regarding his NZ adoptive family, he's not in touch with them anymore unfortunately. Thank you for watching Cheryl :)

@Mona-w7k Год назад

So sad

@letitiakearney2423 Год назад

@@alexgilbert I know he talks a lot about positivity but there’s something very sad I find about Alexey although he jokes but he never smiles. I really hope that his Russian family reach out and he gets to meet them as I think he really belongs in his homeland.