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YuerYue ere was born with a congenital heart defect. He is recovering from surgery and hasn't started school yet. The family has already lost one member to the disease.
YuerYue ere was born with a congenital heart defect. He is recovering from surgery and hasn't started school yet. The family has already lost one member to the disease.
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YuerYue ere was born with a congenital heart defect. He is recovering from surgery and hasn't started school yet. The family has already lost one member to the disease.
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September 21, 2010, riding piggyback on his still too young. Back home, Yuer’s mother, paternal grandmother, and paternal Thank you Ken Khoa Bui grandmother in the hospital. grandmother all farm. Child Nickname: He’s extremely kind and Their fields produce millet. Yuer 悦儿 (#154) well-behaved, and he greets Though they are too poor visitors cheerily. He clearly to afford livestock, they do Birthday: brings a lot of joy to his have a little dog at home January 31, 2006 mother and grandmother, that Yuer loves to play with. who have come with him Yuer also misses his 3-year- project page: all the way from a village in old little brother, who is at www.dongcunzu.org/project/446/ Yuzhong, about two hours home along with the paternal away from Lanzhou, for his grandfather. Date of Hospitalization: surgery. The successful Sept. 15 to Oct. 1, 2010 A few days after his treatment of Yuer’s Cost of Surgery: surgery, on September congenital heart defect 13,941.1 元 27, I sit down to talk to means a lot to Yuer’s his grandmother, who is grandmother, especially sponsorship amount: nursing Yuer as he recovers. since the family has already 9,000 元 I find out that Yuer hasn’t lost one member to the started school yet; he is disease. Unfortunately, Little Red Scarf Alliance YUER 悦儿 (154) Back on their farm, however, and stunting his growth and life was still not easy. The development. At 13 kg, he harvest from the family’s was much below the normal 0.65 acres of farmland is weight for a boy of 4 years not enough to provide for and 8 months. the family’s rations for Thanks to your the year. But because the sponsorship, Yuer received grandparents suffer from surgery for his heart defect old age, they can’t work to on September 23, 2010. The earn extra income. On top surgeons at the Lanzhou of that, the grandmother Military District General suffers from cholecystitis Hospital closed the open (gallbladder attack), enteritis connection between the (inflammation of the small pulmonary artery and aorta. intestine), and heart disease After a eight-day recovery -- every year her medical care in the hospital, with the costs more than 3000 yuan. support of his family, the Yuer’s father also had For this family, treatment for doctors, nurses, and the congenital heart disease Yuer’s disease seemed far staff of Little Red Scarf, Yuer -- soon after the father’s out of reach. was back on his feet and surgery in 2008, he died Yuer suffered from a ready to go home. His family within ten days afterward. patent ductus arteriosus -- still bearing the weight of Tears come to Yuer’s (PDA), which means that the Yuer’s father’s death and grandmother’s eyes as she fetal connection between the burden of daily survival thinks about Yuer’s father. the pulmonary artery and -- was overjoyed. Thanks to The 100,000 yuan for the the aorta failed to close up. your help, Yuer can enjoy futile treatment of the father This connection is necessary a normal childhood with a was all borrowed, and it still for the fetus while it is in healthy, working heart -- has not been paid back. The the womb, because it allows truly a gift that will last a family could hardly bear the blood oxygenated by the lifetime. burden when they found that mother’s placenta to Yuer also had congenital bypass the unused lungs heart disease -- was it not and go straight to the enough for Yuer’s grandma rest of the body. After to lose her son? Would she birth, however, this lose her grandson too? connection has to seal That was not the end up as the fetus starts of their worries. Yuer’s using its lungs. When it mother later remarried, doesn’t, already oxygen- but the new stepfather rich blood floods into kept beating Yuer and his the lungs, causing mother. Unable to bear the them to be inefficient beatings, Yuer’s mother in oxygenating the ran away with him back to bloodstream. This was the dead father’s parents. depriving Yuer of energy Little Red Scarf Alliance email: info@xiaohongjin.org website: www.littleredscarf.org
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