LD26192: Poor family exhausted because child has cerebral palsy, epilepsy

Since her youngest son got sick, Ms. Khong Thi Lanh's life (born in 1994) has been associated with taking her child to the doctor, buying medicine, and nights of worrying about her child having seizures.

Unable to go to work because her child needs constant care, Ms. Lanh is forced to stay home to take care of her child. All family expenses depend on her husband's worker salary of 7-8 million VND/month - Mr. Nguyen Thanh Tai (born in 1996).

Ms. Lanh and her husband currently rent a room at 97/5D, Tam Dong 3 hamlet, Dong Thanh commune, Ho Chi Minh City. The small rented room is where the whole family tries to manage their lives with enough expenses: rent, electricity, water, milk, medicine for young children and tuition fees for older children.

Ms. Lanh's eldest son, baby Nguyen Khai Tien (born in 2015), has been illiterate since he was young. Initially, Ms. Lanh thought that her son was still young and would speak more clearly when he grew up. Now he is 10 years old, baby Tien's pronunciation ability has not improved. Doctors advised the family to take Khai Tien for voice training, but in the situation of having to save every penny to buy medicine for her young son, Ms. Lanh could not give her son treatment.

Ms. Lanh's biggest pain is her youngest son Nguyen Khai Tam (born in 2021), who suffers from cerebral palsy, epilepsy and congenital small head.

According to Ms. Lanh, the doctor said that the baby's condition is unlikely to be completely cured, and the treatment is mainly to control the seizures. Khai Tam must take medicine daily to prevent seizures.

Khai Tam has health insurance, but Ms. Lanh has to buy more special medicines for her child. Each month, just the money for epilepsy medicine, anticonvulsant medicine, examination fees and other medicines to treat other symptoms such as wheezing, runny nose, and constipation of the baby has cost about 3-4 million VND. That is a large amount of money for a family with only one source of income.

Since giving birth to Khai Tam, Ms. Lanh has not been able to go to work to help her husband. Mr. Tai has to worry about living expenses, rent, milk and medicine for his young child, and also bear the tuition fees of his older child. Mr. Tai's health is also not good. His father suffers from gout, often has pain but does not have the conditions to go to the doctor. Every time he has pain, he mainly takes pain relievers to try to go to work.

According to Ms. Lanh, both families are also in difficulty, so they cannot provide much support to her and her husband. On the paternal side, there is currently only Ms. Lanh's mother-in-law, although she is old, she still has to collect scrap metal to earn a living and is currently renting a room with her and her husband's family. On the maternal side, Ms. Lanh's mother is taking care of a disabled daughter.

As much as my husband works, he takes care of the children. I also want to work to help my husband, but my child is sick like this, I cannot abandon him. I just hope to have enough money to buy medicine, so that my child will have less pain," Ms. Lanh sadly shared.

Normal days for Ms. Lanh's family have now become a luxury. In a small rented room, the young mother takes care of her sick child every day, the father tries to go to work even though his health is not good, and the eldest son still does not have the conditions to practice singing as advised by the doctor. For her family, the wish at this time is simply to have more conditions to maintain treatment for Khai Tam, helping her child limit seizures and have a more comfortable life, less prolonged exhaustion...

The disease has taken away baby Khai Tam's health, and also exhausted the last hope of the small family. Ms. Lanh and her husband are in great need of the kind hands of philanthropists to help baby Khai Tam have more money to continue treatment...

All help for life situation LD26192 please send to Tam Long Vang Charity Social Fund - 51 Hang Bo, Hoan Kiem Ward, Hanoi. Account number (STK) 113000000758 at VietinBank Hoan Kiem Branch, Hanoi; Account number: 0021000303088 - at Vietcombank Hanoi Branch; Account number: 12410001122556 - at BIDV Hoan Kiem Branch.

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