Cuban grandmother asks for international help for her grandson with cancer: “He deserves a chance”

A Cuban grandmother, distraught over the possibility of her grandson developing complications related to the cancer, asked for international help this Wednesday to give the little one hope for a full life.

Alibeth Rodríguez wrote on Facebook that Elier Fabián Rodríguez Rosado, who will turn two years old on May 18, “deserves a chance”, pointing out that he is not responding to the treatments administered at the William Soler Pediatric Hospital, in Havana.

At 15 months old, the child was diagnosed with a “neuroblastoma in the right adrenal gland, which initially measured 69x65x79 mm and now its dimensions are 73x59x54 mm,” the lady pointed out in her publication.

The grieving grandmother said that the little boy “unfortunately” is not responding well to treatment “who is already going through seven chemo sessions with the drugs Vincristine, Cyclophosphamide and Dactinomycin.”

Rodríguez pointed out that in the last one “they added Adriamycin, causing good damage to his body since it made a febrile leukopenia (febrile neutropenia) and his platelets went down a lot.”

The woman's anguish worsens, because although there are other more powerful forms of chemotherapy that could help reduce the size of the tumor, in the specific case of the child they cannot be administered due to his chronic anemia.

Finally, Rodríguez asked help the international community because the remaining option “could be surgery to remove the tumor, but with the size it has It is very risky”.

This grandmother, reflecting the family's desperation, asked on Facebook: “What can we do? ¿Sit idly and watch the child deteriorate little by little. "Because of those serums that have done nothing, on the contrary, the tumor is increasing with the risk that it will begin to metastasize?"

The anguish of the relatives of sick people in Cuba are stories that are repeated over and over again, in the midst of a aggravated economic situation.

The Cuban girl Sofía Mercedes Muñoz Rivero, only six years old, this Wednesday He begged for help to travel to the United States., where life-threatening acute myeloid leukemia can be treated.

“Hello, my name is Sofi. I want to go to the United States because I am sick.", the little girl begins by saying in a video that her parents published on social networks and has been shared by hundreds of users.

Another case where international help was called is that of a 21-year-old Cuban with a diagnosis of spinal aplasia, who is in need of medication to deal with his illness, according to the journalist. Javier Diaz from your Facebook profile.

"Urgent! Help is needed for Leodanis Morales Alemán, a 21-year-old young man diagnosed with spinal cord aplasia in Nuevitas, Camagüey”, was the call that the communicator made to the Cuban community or others interested in helping the young man.