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One afternoon, I was fortunate to speak with Ms. Thanh, a gentle woman, a remarkable mother full of compassion despite the darkness weighing on her shoulders. She told me\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026 It was the 27th day of the final lunar month before Lunar New Year in the Earth Dog spring of 2018, a day Thanh can never forget. She is the mother of Tr\u1ea7n L\u00ea Ho\u00e0ng, 1 of the 16 children with serious blood disorders whom the Fund accompanies with monthly financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the middle of lunar month 12, while everyone was excitedly preparing for the season of family reunions, Ho\u00e0ng developed a fever. At first, his mother thought it was an ordinary illness and gave him fever medicine, but 3 days later his eyes began to swell. The young mother was alarmed because many people near their home had kidney disease, and her little boy was showing its signs. She took him to hospital that very night. After 3 days, the local hospital advised the family to take him to the obstetrics and pediatrics hospital for more accurate testing. Her anxiety grew: it seemed her little boy truly did not have an ordinary cold or flu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out of love for her child, she continued seeking treatment. Two days after the doctors performed a bone marrow aspiration, she learned the reality of her child's condition. The child had B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (a form of blood and bone cancer). The sky seemed to collapse before the young mother, and darkness filled her eyes after she received her child's test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was only the beginning, Thanh recalled those days through tears. In the early days, the doctors' needle injections terrified her child. The little angel could not sleep and lay in her mother's arms, startled at the mere sight of someone passing: \u2018Mom, is that lady coming to give me an injection? I'm scared it will hurt!\u2019 Sometimes the child was so exhausted that she drifted off, only to keep asking, \u2018Mom, an injection?\u2019 Even now, after more than 1 year accompanying her child, Thanh is still haunted by that question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can you see Ho\u00e0ng's sunshine-like smile? Does that smile soothe the worries in his mother's heart? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked, \u201cWhat is your dream? What job would you like when you grow up?\u201d, the little boy answered innocently: \u201cI want the pandemic (Covid-19) to end so I can go to school. When I grow up, I want to work and earn money to support Mom.\u201d Even after being asked several times, the 5-year-old had not decided what job he would do; his only dream was to have money to care for his mother. Ms. Thanh said that whenever her \u201clittle old man\u201d passed a large, beautiful house, he would say, \u201cWhen I grow up, I will build this house for you, Mom. I only want to live with you.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since their child became ill, Thanh and her husband agreed to sell their small house to pay for treatment. She also left her job to care for the child. Throughout the first year after the diagnosis, Thanh stayed alone in Saigon caring for her child. Although loneliness and anxiety visited more than once, seeing her child's smile and angelic innocence reminded her to smile and keep going. After the Fund contacted and checked in with her to share her family's story, Thanh had much on her mind. She suddenly thought of many other families struggling as she had more than a year earlier. A person facing adversity who remains optimistic and compassionate toward others \u2014 truly worthy of appreciation! And in the hearts of those serving the Fund Gi\u1ea5c M\u01a1 \u0110\u00f4i Ch\u00e2n Thi\u00ean Th\u1ea7n Fund <\/em>like us, Ho\u00e0ng and his mother are truly gentle, beautiful flowers, blooming in the cruel rain of fate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Detailed profile of L\u00ea Ho\u00e0ng: http:\/\/giacmodoichanthienthan.com\/ho-so-be-tran-le-hoang\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Community members interested in helping can contact the Fund to provide 1-to-1 companionship for L\u00ea Ho\u00e0ng or other child patients for 6 months or 1 year. Support for each child totals 12\u201324 million\/year, requiring a monthly transfer of just 1\u20132 million. This is also each child's average monthly medical treatment cost. Fund contact information: On behalf of the GM\u0110CTT Fund Executive Board
Details of the 1-to-1 Companion Program at: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/giacmodoichanthienthan\/photos\/a.493245170710009\/3181075758593590\/?type=3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hotline: 0898.101.555 (\u0110\u1ea1i L\u1ed9c)
Inbox: http:\/\/m.me\/giacmodoichanthienthan<\/a>
Email: quygiacmodoichanthienthan@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ambassador L\u1ea1i Thanh T\u00fa extends heartfelt gratitude!<\/p>\n\n\n\n