“When they poke him with needles several times to find a vein to draw blood, he winces in pain, holding back his tears. He looks at me and I hold his hand, telling him that it’ll be over soon. My son has gone from being terrified of needles to thinking that this is ‘normal’. At the age of 7, he has spent more time in a hospital ward than a classroom." - Surendra, Father.Every day, Surendra stands in front of the calendar plastered on his wall, counting the number of days left for his 7-year-old’s surgery. And every day, he sighs with disappointment. Mahir has two weeks to get a bone marrow transplant and finally be free from the pain of Thalassemia, but Surendra and Seema have nothing left to save him. Mahir is getting weaker by the day. His energy is depleting and the life from his eyes is slowly fading away.Mahir started vomiting blood and bleeding uncontrollably from his nose because of transfusionsMahir was only an 8-month-old baby when his scared and nervous parents c
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