Cuban father requests a humanitarian visa for his son with cancer: “This disease is against the clock”

A desperate Cuban father, residing in the United States, asked for help from the Cuban and international community to be able to process a humanitarian visa for his two-year-old son, suffering from cancer in Cuba.

Ronald Rodriguez He took to social media to share his story, which reflects his fear of the complications that may arise from his son's illness. Elier Fabián Rodríguez Rosado, if you don't act quickly.

“When I decided to leave Cuba in search of the American dream like many, leaving my wife pregnant, trying to find a better future for her and my unborn child, I could not be there when my son was born and when the child was 15 months later, fate played a trick on me, the child was diagnosed with cancer at the pediatric hospital in Matanzas,” he says in an extensive post on the social network. Facebook.

He assures that that was a moment for his plans to collapse and said that he felt that his “world was collapsing, so many plans, illusions, all that, they no longer meant anything.”

Even though the little boy's battle against the disease began and he is already in his eighth session of chemotherapy, “the tumor is growing instead of shrinking”.

He explained that “the child has a neuroblastoma in the right adrenal gland, which according to Cuban doctors is not operable at the moment due to the size of the tumor, it would be almost a suicidal surgery.”

The little boy also suffers from chronic anemia, an issue that prevents him from being given such strong cytostatics.

Likewise, he stated that he has been on parole since December, as has the child's mother, “but it is not yet known if they will be approved and this disease is unfortunately against the clock, which is why our desperation is to go to social networks to ask humanitarian aid".

Days before, Alibeth Rodríguez, mother of Ronald and grandmother of Elier Fabián, also expressed herself on Facebook saying that his grandson “deserves a chance,” noting that he is not responding to the treatments administered at the William Soler Pediatric Hospital in Havana.

Elier Fabián, who will turn two on May 18, “is already going through seven chemo sessions with the drugs Vincristine, Cyclophosphamide and Dactinomycin,” said the distraught grandmother.

This grandmother, reflecting the family's desperation, asked: “What can we do? Should we sit idly and watch how the child deteriorates little by little due to those serums that have done nothing to him, on the contrary, the tumor is increasing with the risk that it will begin to metastasize?