Nghe An: Child with 'elephantiasis' still has to take care of mother with epilepsy

(Baonghean.vn) - Not as lucky as his siblings, Lam Van Sau (49 years old) in hamlet 11, Quynh Thach commune (Quynh Luu) has had to carry many large and small tumors on his body since he was a child, making his life difficult in every way.

The tumors make it very difficult for Mr. Sau to move around and do daily activities.

Mr. Sau slowly told about his past with sadness and helplessness: "When I was born, I was normal and had no signs of illness. Then a few itchy red spots appeared, but my family thought it was just a simple matter, so they didn't take me to the doctor."

As he grew older, many bumps began to appear on his body, like blisters. The more he scratched, the itchier it became. After a while, his body became covered with bumps and bumps.

But the most miserable thing was the large tumor in my left leg that made it very difficult for me to walk and do daily activities. Although I really wanted to go to the doctor to find out the cause and get treatment, unfortunately my family was too poor, and my siblings' families were also in difficult circumstances, so the disease just kept getting worse and worse.

Once he was eligible to go to Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) for a check-up, the doctors told him he had neurofibromatosis. His illness could be cured, but each surgery would cost about 20-50 million VND and would require multiple surgeries.

Faced with such a huge amount of money, he had to take medicine to hopefully alleviate his illness and had to live with it ever since. Day by day, the tumors that appeared all over his body and legs seemed to suck all his strength, making him look smaller and his gaunt face only showing the raised lumps.

Even more pitiful, in the family, his mother, Mrs. Dang Thi Nguyen (85 years old), is mentally unstable, sometimes awake, sometimes unconscious, sometimes wise, sometimes foolish. Furthermore, his youngest uncle, Le Van Nghia (born in 1978), is also not as smart as a normal person.

Tormented by illness, Mr. Sau also had to take care of his old mother who had epilepsy.

Currently, Uncle Nghia was kindly taken in by a brother in the South who took pity on him and took him to work on a coffee plantation to help his family. Now only Mr. Sau and Mrs. Nguyen are left at home. Mr. Sau has a large tumor that has reached the ground so he can no longer do any work. His mother is old and often sick, and when the weather changes, she has epileptic seizures.

Discussing the family's situation, Mr. Duong Dinh Tuan - Head of Hamlet 11, Quynh Thach Commune said: "Mr. Sau's family situation is really difficult, the family has been poor for a long time, he is sick like that, and has to take care of his old mother, so the situation is even more difficult. The locality always creates conditions to help the family but resources are limited."

Duc Chung