For years I prayed to God to give me a child, and then He gave me Solomon. Now I am pleading for help to save his life; my baby has brain cancer, an extremely aggressive medulloblastoma, and his life costs $370,000.
It all started with vomiting and fatigue. I called an ambulance and we were admitted, but the doctors said it wasn’t anything serious. A few days after the first symptoms, Solomon fell into a deep and prolonged sleep, but again the doctors said it wasn’t anything serious. I requested a consultation with another doctor, and only then did they conduct detailed investigations and a CT scan.
At the CT scan, their behavior changed and they were agitated. I insisted on knowing what was happening, and they told me that something large was visible at the back of the head. I began to cry, asking a flood of questions, both relevant and irrelevant, stammering but hurrying because I wanted to know what I could do to save my child. They just shrugged, visibly shocked by the gravity of the situation. I cried, was incoherent, couldn’t catch my breath, and could only hear distant voices... Then the chief doctor came to express his regret and told me that they needed to urgently insert a drainage tube into the brain, or he would die. They inserted a tube into his head, and the next day, they opened his skull and took a biopsy. I almost lost Solomon that day. He had severe hemorrhage and cardiac arrest. They told me it was uncertain if he would wake up, and if he did, whether he would be able to breathe or swallow... The next day his lungs stopped working. I knelt beside him, praying incessantly for him to recover. Both my baby and God heard me, and in the evening he moved his little fingers. After three days, he managed to breathe on his own, then to swallow a little… Solomon is a fighter.
The biopsy revealed that he has stage 4 MEDULLOBLASTOMA! Brain cancer that appeared and developed extremely rapidly, in just three months. Can you imagine? How can a baby, who only a few days earlier was smiling at everyone and playing, have terminal cancer????? I know these are unanswered questions, but I can’t suppress them. I prayed for five years, Lord, to give me this child. Now I beg You, Lord, not to take him away.
I pray to God that we can raise the money needed for treatment; unfortunately, the cost estimate from the hospital is $370,000 for high-dose treatment and stem cell transplant. It will be a very tough treatment, in high doses, and Solomon will be isolated in a completely sterile room.
Lord, give me help through people so I can save my baby! I cry and pray, because it is all I can do besides asking for help from people I pray not to be so alone in this fight.
Please, each dollar is a chance at life.🙏