More than Death, This 14-year-old Cancer Patient Fears That His Treatment Will Push His Parents Into Debt

“Mudassir keeps crying every day. He tells us that it is only because of him we had to give away every last rupee we had painfully saved over the years. We tell him not to worry and that he is more important to us than money, but the truth is we have no money left and are neck-deep in debt.” – Moula, Mudassir’s fatherIn December last year, 14-year-old Mudassir got a swelling in his neck that refused to go away. It became enlarged and painful to the touch over the days. The first time he went to the doctors, they said it was because of the harsh winter in Bengaluru. When the swelling started interfering with normal activities such as eating, drinking and even speaking, he went to the doctors again. This time, it turned out to be something his father, Moula, and mother, Mohsina, could never imagine in their wildest dreams. Cancer – It only took six letters to destroy their happiness.“We are religious people. Why did Allah do this to us?”A typical day for this family would
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After Bills Shoot Up To 50 Lakhs, Grocer Begs The World For Help To Save His Young Son From Terrible Accident

Even as a little boy, Soumen would say to me, “Baba, I will grow up and take care of you. I will not let you and Ma suffer like this.” Today, I stand by his hospital bed, in a city that is not home, struggling to save him.Even though it has been over a month, I vividly remember that Wednesday. He had called us just an hour ago. He was planning to come over for the weekend and asked if we needed anything from the city. When the phone rang again, I expected to hear him. It was a voice I did not recognize, telling me that my son had met with an accident. My wife and I dropped everything and caught a bus from Medinipur to Kolkata. We never in our worst nightmares expected to see what we did when we arrived.Soumen was unrecognizable. There were machines all around him. Tubes coming in and out of his body. A brace held his neck in place. His stomach was bloated, stitched up, and his head crushed. He was lying lifeless, with the ventilator breathing for him. “He was conscious,” sai
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This Young Girl's Heart And Lungs Have Been Failing Since She Was 6 Years Old And Now She Is Out Of Time

It started when she was just 6 years old. Sayali would get dizzy, lose consciousness and fall. She would vomit profusely until she could not get off the ground. The family dreaded the diagnosis. It was Pulmonary Hypertension. Sayali had high BP in the vessels that take blood to the heart and lungs. She was managing her condition, but the family never knew that it was only getting worse.Sayali grew up feeling her heart and lungs get weaker inside “When we first heard the term, we did not quite understand. We thought – BP? Sayali is too young to have this problem. It took us a while to realize that the situation was much worse than we imagined. Her heart was not able to pump enough blood to her lungs. As a result, both the organs had to work hard.”Sayali needed oxygen therapy, and a lot of drugs. She was always short of breath, unable to walk, run, play or do anything that a child usually does. As a result, she grew up introverted and timid, with a sense of being different from
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This Farmer's 5-Year-Old Daughter Vomits Twice As Much As She Eats Because Of A Deadly Disease

“I believed that there was no way her (Tharishka) condition could get any worse. But within just a few days I was told that if she doesn’t get additional and timely treatment, her kidneys will fail and she will be no more.” – Tharishka’s mother, Sheetal.Tharishka, in pain, and Sheetal at the hospitalSuffering from a rare and deadly disease, and on the verge of kidney failure, 5-year-old Tharishka condition has worsened rapidly and now she is extremely critical in the ICU. She needs to be in the ICU for a week and needs additional treatment to avoid complete kidney failure. She can recover, but her parents fear losing her because their financial condition is so weak that they have nothing left to save her.Tharishka is very critical and her kidneys are failingCurrently, Tharishka is so critical that her treatment, for now, cannot be delayed. She is in the ICU, undergoing dialysis, and she needs to remain there for at least a week more.“After this phase of dialysis, if she do
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A Whole Village Is Crowdfunding To Save Auto-driver’s 10-year-old Daughter From Certain Death

“I had a fever. I had to take medicines. I thought I would get better. I didn’t. Now I am afraid to close my eyes. I might not wake up.”10-year-old Abinaya was in hospital scrubs for her birthday, unable to eat cake, or even get off the bed to wear her birthday dress. She is fighting end-stage liver disease where her liver is almost entirely, irreversibly scarred. With over 80% damaged cells, Abinaya’s liver is unable to get rid of the toxins in her body. She needs a new organ at the earliest without which she will succumb to the disease.They never thought a fever would put her on the deathbed“Did you know that liver is called liver because you cannot live without it. It is life-giving and even regenerates on its own, unlike any other organ. My teacher told me when we first started human biology.” Abinaya had read all about jaundice. When her skin, eyes, and urine turned yellow, she knew what was happening. To make things worse, Abinaya was unable to eat and felt queasy
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Salesman's Daughter Is Fighting Multi-organ Failure And Is In A Coma, Struggling To Live

“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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This Math Teacher Is Struggling To Save His 10-Year-Old Daughter Who Has Been Reduced To Bones

If there’s anything 10-year-old Anjana loves more than going to school and meeting her friends, it’s playing carrom. Once full of life and always on the go, Anjana now even struggles to lift her hand on some days, let alone play her favourite sport. Blood cancer is draining the life out of her. Not only has it destroyed her childhood, but her parents, Kashiraya and Suvarna, now can’t go a single minute without fearing for her life. Only chemotherapy can save Anjana.  Cancer has made Anjana so weak that she can’t even walk on her own anymoreIt’s been two months since Kashiraya and Suvarana received the worst news of their lives. Since then, their lives have been consumed by this disease. Anjana struggles to even walk on her own, and Kashiraya stands with her as her pillar of strength, making sure to hold her hand through the pain.  “Anjana was always a healthy child, but two months ago she started eating less, and before we knew it, her weight had drastically reduced.
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