“One-breast house” of cancer patients

The small house at 7/47 Hanoi Highway (Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City) is the residence of more than 20 women with breast cancer in difficult circumstances during the past 1 year. The house was rented by Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong, she is also one of the patients living here.

After 8 prescriptions of chemotherapy, surgery, and 16-ray radiation therapy, the disease also metastasized to many other parts, making Ms. Phuong’s health much worse, but she has always been a support for other less fortunate women.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Phuong – Living in Thu Duc City, Ho Chi Minh City recounted: “Going to the hospital for general medical examination and then giving the sisters a contact number to return here, many people can’t afford to eat, can’t afford accommodation, the difficulty is that she doesn’t take money. Now she also has pain in her body and numbness. Her hands and feet hurt a lot, now it’s through her lungs, then it’s in medicine, it’s through her heart, treat her heart first, and then continue to buy medicine. Ms. Phuong doesn’t have a husband, no children, she’s single and alone …”.

Most of the people here come from the countryside to Ho Chi Minh City for treatment, and when it comes to radiation treatment, it takes months, so it will cost a lot of money to go back and forth, because of that, Ms. Phuong has rented an apartment. this house.

Every day, the family members will pay 100,000 VND to make living expenses, for those in difficult circumstances, Ms. Phuong will help, no money. The lost parts she will ask her brothers and friends to cover.

Accompanying Ms. Phuong with Ms. Vo Thi My Duyen, her situation was also difficult, so during the treatment period, she had to live in the corridor of the hospital until the epidemic broke out. main kitchen until now.

“The health is also temporarily better than the sisters, who has just received treatment, I encourage them, I cook for them, sisters together to share and fight the disease. Sisters are very united, love, live together a family from a different province but love more than sisters.

Happy, sad, sad because the sisters who live with me leave, that is the most painful. If it’s fun, the sisters sing karaoke together, laugh together, have a lot of memories.”Vo Thi My Duyen – living in Tien Giang province confided.

At the inn, there have been many divorces, the happiness of difficult lives overlapping with unhappiness, some people have just started their spring, some people have just lost their hair, or just heard that they are sick. For them now, the hope of life is simply waking up every morning to find themselves breathing, seeing the world around them and continuing to pray for happiness.

Ms. Huynh Thi Le from the same hometown as Ms. Duyen also had the chance to meet Ms. Phuong and her sisters to live in the same house and rely on each other. Ms. Le shared: “When she met Phuong, she rented a house to help her sisters. Now she is here selling lottery tickets to buy medicine. At first, she cried and was scared, but when she saw her sisters, she didn’t worry anymore, she stopped being afraid and went wherever she went.”

And Nguyen Thi Nhu Le, a native of Binh Thuan, excitedly said: “I’m happy when I come here to stay, sisters take care of each other and comfort each other. I think naturally now that I’m dying, my children are still young, no one is worried, but my husband also comforts me, my parents also comfort me to live and take care of, my relatives also love me. comfort me, because I’m so young I’m sick.”

“One-breast house” is the name that people have coined to comfort each other because most people have to remove one breast during treatment.

It seems that after all, health is the most valuable asset of every human being, hopefully people like Ms. Phuong will have enough health to help the world, help all the sisters in the house to be optimistic, to have a healthy life. tomorrow will be better.

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