Cancer patient asks for help: "The time has come to throw in the towel or continue fighting for my health"

After facing more than twenty surgeries in more than two decades, the woman from SantiagoBricella Hernandez He finds himself in a dilemma: deciding between surrendering or continuing to fight for his life.

The woman decided to publish her story on the social networkFacebook where he turned to the solidarity of the people to be able to buy a house in Havana, since he has been living in the Cuban capital for a decade.

“I have been traveling between Santiago de Cuba and Havana for more than 10 years, and I swear I can't take it anymore,” lamented Hernández, who said he covers that journey every month.

“Whoever can help me buy a house or apartment here in Havana would be closer and would prevent me from coming so often,” the lady pleaded because traveling is quite inaccessible nowadays, in the midst ofthe crisis and economic inflation.

This woman's unfortunate journey began with a perforation of the bladder and vagina, while she was a patient at the Conrado Benítez García Oncological Hospital in Santiago de Cuba, 24 years ago.

“As a result of that surgery, they performed more than seven on me looking for improvement until they decided to send me to the capital because there was nothing more to do,” said the woman.

He said that in Havana he had undergone more than 15 interventions until the doctors gave him a choice between three options: “Remain like this with grade three urinary incontinence, have my bladder done again, or have acystotomywith other variants. I stayed with number three, which is also complex but less complicated.”

Cystotomy is a medical procedure in which an artificial opening is created in the bladder through the abdominal wall to drain urine directly out of the body.

Added to the ordeal that the lady has suffered for decades is suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, colitis, gastroparesis, esophageal achalasia, among other diseases.

“At this moment I am hospitalized for an upcoming surgery plus another pending hernia,” the woman stressed.

Hernández shared his data to obtain all possible help. Their telephone number is 53019951 and their card numbers: 9205 1299 7419 6967 and 9225 1299 7028 2635.

The overwhelming situation of theCuban public health It pushes people to do the most extraordinary acts.

A minor Cuban patient would have committed suicide in Cienfuegos due to the lack of medications for their psychological ailments.

“Yodelvis, a boy from Cienfuegos between 12 and 14 years old, sick with nerves and without medication, found no other solution to his problem than to make the most fatal decision of his life, jumping from an 18-story building in the nuclear city. of Cienfuegos,” reported the user identified inFacebook like Alpidio Leyva.