Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Salesman's Daughter Found With Blood In Her Urine Is Now In A Coma Fighting Multi-organ Failure


“Don’t get tensed and please don’t cry. I will be fine, you should just sit next to me and talk to me.”  - 10-year-old Megha’s words to her father before she lost her consciousness around 5 days ago.Srikanth and Megha at the hospitalSuffering from a deadly disease that has caused her kidneys to stop functioning along with severely affecting her liver and lungs, 10-year-old Megha is now extremely critical and unconscious in the ICU.  She has chances of recovering completely but she has no option but to remain in the ICU for the next few weeks and get additional life-saving treatment too. Her father, who has already sold everything he had, has nothing left to save her now.Megha’s urine contained blood and it was so painfulThe 10-year-old as completely normal up until January 2018. Suddenly, she couldn’t stop throwing up and her urine contained blood too. She had a sharp pain in her abdomen and her eyes were turning yellow too.These were very scary and dangerous symptoms
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My Daughter Has Cancer Of The Nerves And We Need Rs 7 Lakhs To Save Her Life But We Have Just Hundreds


“I’m ready!” she would shriek every morning as soon as she woke up. I know children to hate school. My 4-year-old could not wait to go to class with her older brother. She would push us to prepare breakfast and drop her off. It’s been 6 months. Rani has barely gotten off the bed, leave alone step out of the house. When her fever first appeared, I never thought we would end up here, with her fighting for every breath.It was like any other day, except that she did not bounce out of bed. She did not want to go to school. I knew she was not pretending. She had a raging fever. I thought it was because of what she had eaten the day before. We went grocery shopping, and she wanted to have roadside food. I thought she would be fine in a few days. I was wrong.With everyday, with every tablet she took, Rani only grew weaker. The fever got worse and before we knew it, 40 days went by. Even the doctors in our village were not sure of what was wrong. We had to go to the town a few times be
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This Mother's Life Is In Danger But She Spends Every Rupee To Save Her 10-month-old Son From Cancer


When your child's life is on the line many things can become irrelevant including your own life. Padma who has heart disease refuses to take treatment because her priority is to save her son from cancer. The joy she felt when Pavan was born was short lived. Now grief has become the endless landscape of the rest of her life. Her grief can never go away without saving her son.10-months-old Pavan is battling cancerWhen Pavan was 7-months-old, he developed breathing trouble. Padma had no idea that this was the beginning of a terrible sickness. To her horror, he was diagnosed with Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML), a blood cancer found in children below 2 years. It causes excessive bleeding, bruising, breathlessness and turns fatal without treatment. There is nothing in life that prepares a mother for the words, "Your son has cancer". She felt like the whole world had collapsed on her. She barely heard any of the other words that doctor said.It took Padma some time, but she is now
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Monday, 9 April 2018

Angel Is Slipping Away Because Of Cancer, And Her Parents Are Desperate To Save Her Before It's Too Late


“She keeps asking me ‘Mumma, will I ever get better? Will I ever go to school again?’ and all I can do is hold her and tell her she will be fine soon. It breaks my heart. I know that without treatment nothing will stop cancer from taking my child away.”Blood cancer has taken over 6-year-old Angel’s life. Once an enthusiastic and active child, Angel now doesn’t have any energy left in her. She is extremely weak, and her playful childhood is long behind her. On some days, she can’t even drink water without throwing up. Her parents, Pintu and Pinku, have been living in fear about her future for 3 months now and will continue to do so if her treatment isn’t continued. Angel can survive cancer only with chemotherapy.The shocking diagnosis that destroyed Angel’s childhoodThree months ago, Angel’s condition began rapidly deteriorating. Pinku took her to several hospitals in their hometown in Guwahati, Assam, but to her disappointment, she got no answers and Angel got no
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My Daughter Has Cancer Of Her Nerves And We Have To Fund Rs. 7 Lakhs To Save Her Life But We Have Just Hundreds


“I’m ready!” she would shriek every morning as soon as woke up. I know children to hate school. My 4-year-old could not wait to go to class with her older brother. She would push us to prepare breakfast and drop her off. It’s been 6 months. Rani has barely gotten off the bed, leave alone step out of the house. When her fever first appeared, I never thought we would end up here, with her fighting for every breath.It was like any other day, except that she did not bounce out of bed. She did not want to go to school. I knew she was not pretending. She had a raging fever. I thought it was because of what she had eaten the day before. We went grocery shopping, and she wanted to have roadside food. I thought she would be fine in a few days. I was wrong.With everyday, with every tablet she took, Rani only grew weaker. The fever got worse and before we knew it, 40 days went by. Even the doctors in our village were not sure what was wrong. We had to go to the town a few times before on
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Angel Is Slipping Away Because Of Cancer, And Her Parents Are Desperate To Save Her Before Its Too Late


“She keeps asking me ‘Mumma, will I ever get better? Will I ever go to school again?’ and all I can do is hold her and tell her she will be fine soon. It breaks my heart. I know that without treatment nothing will stop cancer from taking my child away.”Blood cancer has taken over 6-year-old Angel’s life. Once an enthusiastic and active child, Angel now doesn’t have any energy left in her. She is extremely weak, and her playful childhood is long behind her. On some days, she can’t even drink water without throwing up. Her parents, Pintu and Pinku, have been living in fear about her future for 3 months now and will continue to do so if her treatment isn’t continued. Angel can survive cancer only with chemotherapy.The shocking diagnosis that destroyed Angel’s childhoodThree months ago, Angel’s condition began rapidly deteriorating. Pinku took her to several hospitals in their hometown in Guwahati, Assam, but to her disappointment, she got no answers and Angel got no
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6-Year-Old Shinu Might Not Live Until Her Next Birthday Because A Hole In Her Heart Is Slowly Killing Her


“Shinu hadn’t seen such a big hospital before. She thought it was a mall and told me how nice and posh it looked. My poor child doesn’t know that she was being admitted there because of her bad heart,” says Sajitha, Shinu’s mother.Shinu Vinod is going to be 6 years old this month. But she has a heart defect that may not let her live till her next birthday. An urgent surgery is her only shot at survival.Shinu's parents blamed their family's abject poverty for her weaknessLittle Shinu always looked younger than her peers; she was underweight and regularly suffered from breathlessness. Her parents thought that their poverty was to be blamed for Shinu’s problems. “We could not afford to buy expensive fruits and vegetables, because I am a rubber tapper and work is hard to come by. Some days, I make enough money to feed my family of six – Shinu, her elder brother Sanu, my wife, my mother and brother some rice congee while on other days we have to make do with old food. I bel
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