Warriors and Survivors -48

Adrenocortical Tumor

Children Cancer Stories by Rukh Yusuf - Blog # 48

 

I am Rukh Yusuf, Clinical Pharmacist, also specialized in Total Parenteral Nutrition and Bone Marrow Transplant. I have been working in Pediatric Oncology unit of a public hospital for several years. The mission of this blog is to bring to you the real-life stories of child patients suffering from cancer. Cancer is still a difficult disease to handle and treat. However, when it strikes the children, some so young that they cannot even speak, their agony is beyond expression and words. Let us pray especially for children suffering from cancer for early and complete remission. May Allah shower His Merciful Blessings upon them. Aameen.

Sawab Fatima is nine years old female with stage three Adrenocortical carcinoma from Jhang. She was all fine until seven years of age. Suddenly she had episodes of vomiting off and on with weight gain and excessive hair growth on whole body. She also had coarse voice gradually.

Sawab Fatima has a younger brother, and her mother is taking care of her both children alone as Sawab’s father had died few years ago.

She was taken to local hospital and medications were given but she did not improve. Her condition was same for few months. Fatima’s mother was seeing her worsening situation and took her to Children’s hospital on some one’s advice. It was a difficult step to move with her younger children alone to another city, but poor mother had to do something for the health of her only daughter.

She was admitted in hospital for complete investigation and work up. She was diagnosed as right adrenocortical tumor and her surgery was planned to remove it.

She was shifted to Surgery department where her tumor was removed and successfully, she was discharged and had to come for follow up.

On Follow up Swab Fatima was shifted to oncology department. Here, her investigation work up started and her chemotherapy was initiated for stage three right adrenocortical tumor.

Her first cycle was completed in early February, and she is on second chemotherapy cycle and still has more to go. Little girl is bearing chemotherapy so far patiently and her mother’s bravery is commendable who is fighting with her daughter’s disease. As she is travelling frequently from Jhang and living here with two little kids. She sews clothes and earns for her children.

Life is more difficult for single parents, especially single mothers in the age when they have younger children to take care and earn for them too. Life becomes more miserable when unluckily some of the family member has to fight with the difficult disease like cancer.

Not only Swab Fatima is a warrior but her whole family is, including the younger brother who is travelling frequently with his family being single male member. Her mother is great warrior she is really deserving family who needs help of all kinds, moral, ethical, financial etc.

We can pray for the ease of the suffering family and the complete health and recovery of Swab Fatima and all warriors who are suffering silently and those who even don’t know their disease and what is going on with them.

May Allah ease and cure all patients and cancer warriors.

 

 

Note: Names have been changed to protect identity