Warriors and Survivors - Children Cancer Stories by Rukh Yusuf - Blog # 92
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.
When I first saw four years old Haram with her mother, I was surprised about her mother’s age. I thought the little angel was all alone with her grandmother. Yes, her mother looked as old as a grandmother. It was surprising that a mother of four-year-old was an old lady with wrinkles.
Sadness overcome surprise when I talked to her. Haram’s mother became a widow twelve years ago, she had two children. Then her family remarried her, and now she has four children. To her bad luck, her new husband was an addict, who never took care of his children and wife. Haram’s mother takes care of four children, and she is not young enough to manage this big responsibility all alone. In addition to this burden, she has to take care of her younger one Haram and her chronic disease.
Haram is four-year-old baby girl with diagnosed pre b ALL (Pre-B Acute lymphoblastic Leukemia). She has been on chemotherapy for one year.
Her mother was working as maid and taking care of her four children at her hometown. Now she has no means of earnings as her husband does nothing being an addict. The family comes from Mandi Bahauddin for treatment. She has to leave her three children at home all alone. In this age she is running for her youngest daughter’s treatment.
Only God knows how she has managed this one year of her daughter’s treatment. Or we can say Allah has managed her treatment so far. She is altogether without any aid.
The little one is bearing chemo and still two more years of treatment to go if everything goes smoothly. But who knows how these two years will pass as both mother and daughter have no one to help them. They are all alone in this big city, waiting for some miracle, ease and good time to come.
Lot of prayers for the suffering family. Let’s pray for the full recovery of Haram and ease of her mother. Prayers that Haram recovers fully soon. Aameen. May Allah recover her soon and may she live normal healthy life again. Aameen
May Allah recover all patients. May Allah ease and cure all patients and cancer warriors.
Note: Names have been changed to protect identity
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