This Baby Is Choking Because Of Food In His Lungs From Blocked Food Pipe

“Last week, he started vomiting and choking on it. He even had seizures. We went to so many doctors, and it was days before we got help.” – Praveen, the baby's father.Praveen and Savita had a baby boy on March 17. Unable to feed, the baby had a surgery three days after birth so his food pipe could be opened. He was fine until last week – when he became unable to eat again. His parents rushed him from hospital to hospital for help only to find out that his food was going into the lungs again. He needs ICU care to make it out of this critical condition.Feeding has been this baby's biggest difficultySince last week the baby has been very sick. To complicate matters, along with his blocked food pipe, he developed pneumonia. Before they could open the block in his throat – the baby needed to fight off pneumonia. For these tired parents, it feels like their baby needs to overcome one fight after another.  “He was born underweight and just 10 minutes after his birth, they put
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Retired Man Begs For Help To Save His Teenage Daughter From Dying Of Liver Failure

“Nandini knows that she is ill and that we are terribly worried about it. Her hands and feet are swollen and she is confined to bed. The doctors have asked to us to prepare for a surgery as soon as possible. She does not know that her body is giving up on her regardless of how much she wants to fight. We will lose without that surgery.” – Ravindra, Nandini's father.Ravindra believes Nandini's condition worsened when she got vitamin drips. Despite admitting her to the hospital when she had jaundice, his daughter only got sicker. When the doctors said she needed a transplant, he didn't need time to think about it. He would do whatever was needed to save her. Only, time is running out to arrange funds in time.Ravindra broke his back trying to find financial security for his familyRavindra worked as a daily-wage worker and saved up for years. Only when he had enough savings did he decide to get married and start a family. He wanted to have a roof over his head so his children would
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Father With Speech Disorder Is Forced To Leave Critical Baby In Hospital For Fear Of Being Fired From Job

“My son, Dhruv, has been in the ICU for about 15 days now. I work in a small grocery shop in our hometown of Haryana, and had to take leave for all these days to take him to Delhi for better treatment. I have to return to work soon or I will lose the only job that I could keep in all these years as I was never a confident person because of my stuttering. If I get fired, I will have no money to even buy food, let alone save my son.”-Bhagat Singh, father of 1-month-old Dhruv.Bhagat Singh and Shobha fear that they may be touching their son for the very last timeIt all started with a cold and fever that has spiraled into a dangerous life-and-death situation nowWhen Bhagat Singh and Shobha welcomed their first child almost a month ago, little did they think that their seemingly normal baby would slowly slip away from their hands.“He was the perfect baby. Despite being a little under-weight, he did not have any other issues at birth. We couldn’t thank God enough for blessing us with
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12-year-old Whose Painful Swollen Tummy Makes Her Starve Only Has Few Days To Live Without A Liver Transplant

Fatima squeezes her mother’s hand tightly and squirms when the excruciating pain in her fluid-filled abdomen becomes unbearable. She is hungry and wants to eat, but immediately throws up when she tries to swallow. But the worst thing is that she refuses to drink a lot of water because it hurts when she pees. An urgent liver transplant can solve her problems. But her poor parents do not even have money to buy medicines, how will they afford such a big surgery?All Fatima can ask her mother is, ‘What did I do to deserve such a fate?’12-year-old Fatima’s liver has been failing ever since he got Hepatitis B about 6 months back“Her eyes and skin started becoming a pale yellow. We did not pay much attention to it because she did not behave like she was sick. But one day at school, she lost consciousness all of a sudden. Her teachers noticed the yellowness all over her body and instructed us to go to the doctor immediately. After a round or two of tests, she was diagnosed with Hepat
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13-Year-Old With A Funnel Shaped Chest Has A Heart Disease That Can Kill Him At Any Moment Without Surgery

"He keeps saying that he's fine, but he's struggling to hold back his tears. I have seen him crying in silence. He's scared but he tries to hide it from us. 3 years ago,  we found out that the holes in his heart were growing. I was asked to pay Rs3,500 for the tests but I didn't have that much money, so we couldn't get the tests done. That's the biggest mistake I've made. Now he can't even walk or talk for a long time. He breathes so heavily. I feel he might leave us at any moment." - Manimaran, father.Deepak was born with a complex heart problem and a funnel chestWithin a few hours of Deepak's birth, a loud murmur was heard from his heart. He was struggling to breathe. He has a complex heart problem called Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) which is a combination of four related heart defects that occur together. The four defects are holes in the heart, blockage of blood flow from the right ventricle to the artery, right ventricle pumping at high pressure and enlarged aortic valve.Adding to
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Father Lost His Job For Trying To Save His 1-year-old Baby Girl's Heart From Failing

“It’s so painful to see that our daughter has to survive on tubes and medicines. Yogesh and I waited for 6 long years to hold our baby in our arms. Now that we have her, her misery kills us every day. I haven’t slept well for months now just because my baby keeps tossing and turning relentlessly the entire night,” Poonam, Divyanshi’s mother.Being born with Down syndrome didn’t seem to be the only odd that Divyanshi had to fightPoonam and Yogesh’s happiness knew no bounds when their prayers for their own child had finally been heard after 6 years. Although baby Divyanshi was born with down syndrome, they were prepared to fight all odds for their baby and considered her to be truly God's gift.“At the seventh month of Poonam’s pregnancy, we got to know that our baby has a hole in the heart and it would close after she was born. But to add to our misery, when she was just 7-months-old we got to know it is worse. My baby has an atrial septal defect, a condition where ther
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Every Day Without Surgery Is Pushing This 2-Year-Old Baby Girl With Four Heart Defects Closer To Death

"When I look at her, all I feel is guilt. I wish there was a way for me to save our baby, I wish we were not standing in the way of her recovery. She smiles through everything, completely unaware that every minute that she's alive, she's escaping death."Dhanalakshmi wakes up every morning with a spring in her step. She runs to her father and insists he takes her on a piggyback ride, she then runs to her mother and eagerly waits till she puts down the rolling pin so that she carries her. The 2-year-old keeps Mani and Rajeshwari on their toes and spreads her infectious laughter wherever she goes. Unfortunately, two months ago, little Dhanalakshmi was diagnosed with a serious heart disease that threatens to take away her smile and life forever.   Dhanalakshmi has four heart defects together, and it’s only making her weaker by the day“She’s our only child. When she was born, we thought we had taken home a healthy baby. We thought she would have a healthy future, too. But two month
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