Children Cancer Stories by Rukh Yusuf - Blog # 93
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.
A woman from Abbottabad periphery is admitted in Oncology unit of children’s hospital with her ten-year-old son. These people from northern areas are most attractive in looks but they have lots of issues and miseries. They are poor as well but surprisingly they are grateful for everything they have.
10 years old Muzammil Riasat got hit by a stone while playing. There was no bleeding on the spot but there was an internal wound. Muzammil had off and on pain in that wound. There are no hospitals and clinics in their locality. A couple of local hospitals are present, but they are too far. Muzammil’s mother did some home remedies but that was not enough to relive his pain and his wound did not heal.
Muzammil’s father is a laborer, so it took him days to decide that he must take his son to a hospital. It was not easy for his father to plan a visit to hospital out of his tight work schedule and due to lack of finances. It took him weeks to take his son to hospital in Abbottabad. Doctors gave him medicines and some local application and sent him home.
After some days his leg started swelling slowly. Muzammil was having pain as well. His parents decided to take him to Children hospital on some relative’s advice. His father managed to do this somehow seeing his son’s condition.
In Children’s hospital, Muzammil was diagnosed with cancer. He was having Ewing Sarcoma. Poor, uneducated parents did not even know what Ewing Sarcoma was. They just knew that their son had cancer, and they had to do whatever they could in this poverty.
It’s been three months now Muzammil is on treatment and undergoing chemotherapy. His laborer father is under lots of debt. They do not have money to pay for the cost of medicines or treatment. Many diagnostic tests are not available in the hospital, and they have to do it on their own. Living out of their hometown, food, residence, and travel is too much to handle for a distant poor family with an emotional burden of such a cruel disease.
A difficult era been started for this simple and grateful family. Three other children are with old grandmother in Abbottabad. Allah is only sustainer
All the stories that I write are almost similar, poor families with so much, financial, emotional and disease burden. Helplessness, poverty, agony, and most deprived people of the society. We must think, what can we do for them? How to ease them?
They follow who treat them well, avoid who scold or mistreat them. The child is not able to think other than his pain. When this pain will decrease then he will be able to think that how miserable life has become for him and his parents. It is still a start of this painful journey, a long way to go yet...
Lot of prayers for the suffering family. Let’s pray for the full recovery of Muzammil and ease of his parents. Prayers that Muzammil recovers fully soon. Aameen. May Allah recover him soon and may he 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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