The mother of a girl with cancer makes a call: "Please, do it because my child is suffering for you"

Dear parents of children who do not have cancer: An occasional exposure to measles in a grocery store had the following consequences when my child was in chemotherapy:

– Nicole Stellon O Donnell (@SteamLaundry) November 21, 2018

"Dear parents of children who do not have cancer, this is what happened to my child during chemotherapy because it was accidentally in the store that he was accidentally exposed to the goddesses.

1. She was quarantined for one month. As if it was not hard enough for her to undergo chemotherapy at the age of eight. Add to that the impossibility of leaving home.

2. When we arrived in Pediatrics / Oncology, they had to dismiss other patients and close the ward until they discovered the details of his exposure. This disrupted the treatment of other children with cancer.

3. The room in which he was to be closed and purged, preventing other children from using it.

4. During the summer, the house had to wear a mask on his face. It may not seem so bad, but imagine that you are eight, bald, bony, have no eyebrows or eyelashes, and always wear a face mask in public.

5. He should have received an injection that would promote the development of white blood cells, after which there will be intense pain in the bones. Fortunately, the number of his white blood cells was high enough that he was not forced to cross it.

6. Our oncologist had to spend a lot of time consulting an infectious agent to understand what he had to do for her and for the other children at the clinic that day. I cried with relief when they told me that no child should receive this painful therapy.

We were lucky that a year ago, he did not abandon his studies. She already missed three months when we started chemotherapy. She would have suffered that she had to miss another one. Please vaccinate your children. And you vaccinate against the flu. Do it out of compassion for children who are important immunities because their immunity is not working as it should, "she wrote.