Children Cancer Stories by Rukh Yusuf - Blog # 98
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.
It’s another sad or I would say probably the saddest warrior story of the child, Sher Ali. Sher Ali is only six years old, and he is having Leukemia. Saddest part is Sher Ali’s father is an addict. He is not able to understand his son’s major illness. The poor child has two sisters and one brother, and his mother is really a brave woman who is not only fighting with her son’s disease but also bringing up her children as a single parent. She is also looking after her husband despite the fact that he is addict and he does not take care of his family. The lady is really a lioness, and her son is a lion like Sher Ali. She deserves all the kindness and support one can offer.
Sher Ali belongs to a town near Lahore, his father was earning few years back, but then he started using drugs. Soon he became addict and now he has left with nothing except debt and bad health. Most of the time he is not in his senses. Whenever he does, he always looks for money to buy more drugs. This kind of Father Sher Ali has at this young age with a serious disease.
One year ago, when Sher Ali was diagnosed with Leukemia, not to mention how evil this news would be for the mother and children, not for the father as he has lost his senses. The mother brought her child to Children’s hospital for treatment. Reaching Tertiary care treatment point from a periphery is a triumph. She did that and when the doctors told her that it will be more than three years treatment, the news was hard to digest for her. But she did and her son’s treatment was initiated. It was the most painful time for her, even more than her husband’s addiction.
The brave lady continued her son’s medication and chemotherapy while staying at hospital for as long as three months in a go. Leaving other children at home with father was another trial; the father who was unable to feed them.
Despite all these hurdles, she has managed to complete Sher Ali’s several chemotherapy cycles and he is in the midst of his treatment now. In all this painful journey, Sher Ali sometimes looks better and sometimes he seems more down. But Allah has granted both of them courage to fight the disease, so they are on it.
But she sometimes seems defeated now. There is still a long way to go, almost half of the treatment has been done and they have to be strong enough for the rest of the trial. She is fighting multiple battles at a time and that is the major reason she looks tired and defeated. May she win all her battles. Aameen
Let’s pray for the early and complete recovery of Sher Ali, may he recover soon and able to see the world and his dreams come true again, Aameen. May her mother be able to see her child healthy and thriving again. May his father soon become a normal, responsible father to look after for his responsibilities. Aameen
Lots of prayers for Sher Ali and his family. May all the sick children recover soon, and their diseases never come back and may they live normal, healthy life again. Aameen
Note: Names have been changed to protect identity
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