Parents died, 3 deaf and mute children were left alone!

(Baonghean.vn) - The last thread connecting the three deaf and mute children to life, mother Dao Thi Thu, passed away on October 3, 2012 at the age of 67, leaving behind a story of suffering and many lingering feelings.

Many people in Block 9, Con Cuong Town - Con Cuong District - Nghe An Province know about the current situation of Mrs. Dao Thi Thu's family because of a life of suffering with her children who are absent-minded and disabled. Until she took her last breath on the hospital bed, her last eyes were still looking towards, endlessly tormenting her children who have never known about a day when they can be truly human, still deep in the world without human voices. Now that mother is gone, Tran Thi Hue (42 years old), Tran Thi Lan (1976), Tran Cong Son (1983), how can there be anyone to talk to them with their hands? Only mother understands us, now mother is gone, lonely, orphaned and disabled. How can we continue to live, have a little work, no matter how small, to live, so that every night the three sisters tremble, groping to help each other burn incense for their parents.

Mr. Tran Ngoc Binh and Mrs. Dao Thi Thu were both from the same hometown of Vinh Tuy hamlet (Vinh Thanh commune, Yen Thanh). They got married in the miserable poverty of a time when even a meal was a shameful experience. In 1959, Mr. Binh went to Lam Son, the land of Con Cuong, to work as a worker at the district forestry farm, hoping to earn more cassava and corn to send home to ease his wife's hunger on March 8. In her hometown, Mrs. Thu worked as a primary teacher from 1961, and in 1966, she followed her husband to work as a worker at Bai Phu forestry farm. Having spent her life with tea trees, in 1989, she retired with a meager worker's salary. Sadly, in 1990, Mr. Tran Ngoc Binh, her husband, suddenly passed away after a tragic work accident. Since then, her entire family, after having exhausted their mother's milk, now depended on her meager pension.

In total, during her short life as a wife, she gave birth to 6 children, 3 of whom were born deaf and mute, and had no jobs because their eyesight had gradually deteriorated. The remaining 3 children also did not have stable jobs, working wherever they could, not knowing what to eat next. Mrs. Thu had suffered from diabetes for decades, but had no money for treatment, so she had to leave it alone and feel sorry for her elderly children who were bewildered, only knowing how to hang around their mother's feet. Around July, because her illness was so severe, she had to borrow a few hundred thousand dong from the neighbors to go to the Provincial Endocrinology Hospital to lie down, and then she lay down when her whole body was swollen and there was no way to save her. The hospital sent her back in a weak, exhausted state. When she breathed her last, her hand gradually turned gray and still tried to open, reaching out to her 3 disabled children.

Ms. Tran Thi Hue has the only job she can do: washing clothes with a broken plastic basin.

Of the three disabled children of the couple, only one receives a monthly allowance of about 150,000 VND. All three were born deaf and mute, and now have an additional disease that gradually blurs their eyesight, making them unable to work like other disabled people. In the house filled with incense smoke next to their mother's coffin, Ms. Tran Thi Hue (42 years old) covered her face and cried silently, the cry of a mute person. Ms. Tran Thi Lan and Mr. Tran Cong Son looked blankly at where their mother lay with cloudy eyes, wondering who would lead them to the well and sweep the yard in the future? When their mother was still alive, the three sisters could only sit absent-mindedly all day in each damp corner of the house, or laboriously drag a broken plastic basin to the well, groping to wash clothes, or groping to sweep the moldy, damp yard. At mealtimes, their sick mother would call out for the three of them to come in and eat their meal together in the dim light of the oil lamp.

All three deaf and mute children were by their mother's bedside at her last moments.

Now, Mrs. Dao Thi Thu has passed away, losing the last source of life for her three disabled children, who have no wife or husband. Even in communicating with life, they only use gestures to make their mother understand. Now... they don't know how to live. Through the bridge of Nghe An Newspaper, I hope that kind hands will help the three disabled sisters live out their miserable lives, so that their mother and father can have some peace in the afterlife.

Tran Hai