History of the cancerous child traveling in a caravan of migrants

"Yes, there is a cure," repeats a couple of Honduran migrants who are heading to the United States, looking for desperate treatment for their six-year-old boy with a terminal cancer.

María Argentina Paz and Rodrigo Villanueva They are part of the migratory caravan that started on October 13 and now crosses Mexico after crossing the Guatemalan border of Tecún Umán.

The hope of finding a cure for their son, Mery Sair, encourages them to continue their journey to US territory. Despite the dangers of the walk.

"In Honduras, they only keep it by chemotherapy and pills, but the disease is progressive because they have not been able to stop it," says Paz. In the United States, "there is treatment, they have already done research and they are already treating it, and yes, there is treatment," she says hopefully.

Although they continue to develop, the tumors of Mery Sair's foot and right arm do not prevent it from walking. Her infantile pattern mask covers almost all of her face. Due to illness, he lost his right eye.

In his hometown, Omoa (northern Honduras), his family was given to three other children of the couple. The oldest of nine years had already undergone a heart operation successfully some time ago.

Back, they also left poverty. "It's only for rice, beans and rent because everything is expensive, you can not, and then it's up to you to emigrate for health reasons."

After treatment chemotherapy, the child "has a stomach ache and wants to eat an apple or a banana and we do not have money to buy. It hurts not to" the "

Peace does the housework and her husband grows" to survive, but we can not survive. "

Expelled

To complicate the situation situation, the doctors Hondurans have expelled them. "The doctors have said that he would appreciate the time he has left, (…), that they do not know he will live." for days or months, "he explains with frustration.

" A fundamental element [de migrar] concerns our son. he is sick and the illness that he has in our country is very difficult [de tratar] because of his poverty and his end, "regrets Villanueva.

Resigned, he said that" the hopes in Honduras are very weak, so as a father, one must be at the end of one's children and see how one can help them and that is why we came, risking his life and his own. "

" We want to enjoy it until the last moment and if God gives us the opportunity to be healed, "he said.