'Candles in the Night' director shaves head for daughter with cancer
Duc Thanh - director of "Candles in the Night" - shaved his head to encourage his daughter during an important surgery at the end of September.
Duc Thanh said that his daughter - Hanh An - will soon have her second bone marrow transplant. In the most important surgery, the director will donate bone marrow to his daughter. On the evening of September 11, he posted a photo of the two of them with shaved heads with the caption: "K"I'm going to lose all my hair anyway, so we should both cut our hair to lighten our heads." Duc Thanh's daughter is being treated for leukemia.
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Director Do Duc Thanh recounts how father and daughter helped each other shave their heads before their daughter had a bone marrow transplant. Photo:Mobile phone |
The director confided that he never thought that one day he would hold his child's hand tightly, walking together on a journey that he didn't know how long it would last, or how much money it would cost. He understood that there was no room for fear or fatigue on that journey, and that he could not retreat but had to keep moving forward. "As a father and mother, in all circumstances, even if there was a one percent chance of saving our child, we had to try our best, even if there were times when we felt helpless. 'You're healthy again' - those are definitely the happiest words on this journey and in my whole life," he wrote.
The director said the cost of the upcoming surgery is 200,000 Singapore dollars (about 337 million VND). His family is scrambling to raise the money but is still short of nearly 70,000 Singapore dollars. Actress Chieu Xuan, director Tran Luc, musician Bui Huy Tuan... encouraged their colleagues and called on artists to join hands to help him.
Mai Thu Huyen - actress who played the main roleCandles in the nightsaid that in the near future, she and many colleagues will continue to accompany Duc Thanh and his father and son. After a long time of treating his daughter's cancer in the country and Singapore, his family is facing financial difficulties. People's Artist Hoang Dung said that his colleagues had to sell almost all their houses and assets to have money to treat their daughter. In early April, artists organized a friendly football tournament in Hanoi, raising more than 200 million VND to help Hanh An. A music night in Ho Chi Minh City raised nearly 340 million VND for the director and his father.
Director Do Duc Thanh is famous in the field of television dramas. He has participated in many films such asCandles in the Night, Long Dreams, Programming the Heart, The Quiet River, The Green Spider, Peaceful Sky... In 2017, he shared the story of his daughter Hanh An (born in 1999) having cancer on social media. Over the past two years, the director and his daughter's treatment journey has received much attention and encouragement from many artists.