Hello everyone!
Here's my entry for the "One Cure" contest.
Cancer of the blood(Leukemia).
In August of 2019, a woman had come with her daughter and son to the beauty shop where I was learning nail care. She and her daughter wanted to fix their nails. They were very beautiful. Light skin, nice height, nice body structure and cute eyes. Somehow, the woman and my boss got talking. She told her of her other twin daughter who was lying sick in the hospital. How they had gone for various surgeries, drugs bought, doctors checks, and sadly, how she was watching her child slip through her hands. I could not understand it. I could see the pain in her eyes and hear the hurt in her words
She and her husband are separated. He already had a new family and cares little of their welfare. She has sought help from various places, taken loans, spent millions and being the mother she is, she wouldn't stop until her child gets better.
*Being a sickness that involves the blood, transfusion isn't 100% effective as taking out all the blood in a person's body isn't feasible (it's a fluid).
I think that was the first time I got to know of Leukemia and how deadly it is. I was scared to my bones. Very downcast for the rest of the day.
After work that day, when I got back home, I immediately went online to check for the girl via Facebook. Before then, the other twin's friend had called her by her full name back at the shop. I traced the sick twin therein.
When I saw her pictures, my mouth flew open. She was just as beautiful as her other twin. They were like the most beautiful twin girls I had ever seen at the time. They would be turning 19 by September that year and had recently gotten admission to study in the university.
She was now a shadow of her former self. She had grown too thin. Judging by the last time she made a post on her page, I could not believe that someone could go from 100 to 0 that fast. She now had to be assisted. She was frail, weak, dull looking. I remember crying alot that evening, then praying, then crying again. For someone I had never met. Damn! I cried bitterly. She was too young for such pain but it could have been anyone. I wondered what was going through her head. How she felt.
I made series of research and found that it had no cure. I was devastated. For everyday that went by, I wished some miracle would happen.
Around October, I saw a post online made a friend of mine. It was the sick twin. She had given up; she died. I was in so much disbelief. I was angry at myself. I felt I didn't do anything to help meanwhile, what could I have done?
I learnt that genetic and environmental factors may cause it but even then, scientists haven't really determined it.
I haven't felt so bad for any sick person as I felt for her. I've thought of the many persons fighting it. That sickness made me learn so much about Cancer in general and since then I've been so conscious and scared of so many things but with time, I was able to overcome the fear.
I do not ever want to hear or see young persons or anyone at all die because of it. It's like watching yourself burn and being unable to do anything but fight for your dear life.
