Cardiac patient home visit

Day…

We met 2 younger children

There was a young girl who went to the HAF office for help. She knew about us because of the introduction at Đa Nang hospital. She is a student at Đa Nang university. She asked us to help her father get a heart surgery. Her father is 44 year olds and got a severe heart disease. Her mother died 4 years ago. Her parents have 3 children. She is the oldest child and is19 years old, 2 other children still at high school. When her mother was alive, her parents did farming for living. But since her mother death, and father is heart disease, they couldn’t keep up their work. This girl herself has a pituitary gland tumor, too. She usually follows up in Sai Gon hospital by her friends helping. She tutors outside school hours to earn money to cover her living costs in Da Nang. I know this job because I used to do it when I was a student. We only earn 20-30$/ month. When I talked to her, I felt like she is a very energetic girl. And I really didn’t want to make her disappoint. Even though I knew it would be difficult to convince my boss with the case of an over 40-year-old. I just thought that although the father not so healthy after surgery but he can also does a light work and take care of children. More important, he is the only spiritual for kids. She tried her best to borrow 20m for her father surgery. So why can’t we give her hope.

the house is very old now

  The next two days, me and An went to visit their home under heavy rain. Very difficult road to travel and we were quite difficult to find their home. The house was not too bad but it is so old now. They built it when the mother was still alive. We met the father and the 2 younger children. The father was quite tired because of his disease. Our donation for this case will be a 1000$. He hospitalized last week and will have surgery this month. We hope that after his surgery, he will get better soon to take care of his children.