Hmm, um, life is what happens when you are busy making plans.
A great man once said that it is not what happens that makes us who we are, but it’s how we learn to live with whatever happens to us when we did not expect it.
He is called Thomas.
He is 18 years old.
She is called fralence, the mother to Thomas, whose life was ruined by the size of his belly and limits him from doing anything in the society, just like any other child should.
Florence says that in this community, a lot of people keep bullying her son by saying that he is pregnant, yet he is a boy because of his belly that looks this big and, according to her, they completely have no idea where this came from.
According to florence, this is when their life became a total disaster, because it is when Thomas’s father died when they needed him the most, because she always thought of how she was going to ever manage to afford their sense treatment alone, since she also had no job.
She tried taking Thomas to the hospital and it was very expensive, and she had to sell everything she had, including her own house that they lived in, so that her son can get treatment, which was helpful for quite some time but did not last forever, because at some point she totally ran out of money.
When the situation got worse, she started thinking that it was witchcraft.
She went to a wizard who took all the little money she had, but nothing was getting better.
She was advised to keep taking her son to the hospital because this disease was not anything spiritual.
They think that Thomas might be suffering from a disorder known as ascites, and the hospital was the only way to go in order for him to get treatment.
Ascites is a buildup of a fluid in one’s belly, often due to severe liver disease, and this fills up an extra fluid in one’s belly that makes it swell.
That makes it completely hard to inhale air.
According to him, they live in this old and poor house and they cannot afford to buy a mattress of their own, and this is why they sleep on the ground.
She is also requesting for help that her son can get advanced treatment, because he is the only family that she has right now since the rest of them died, and she does not want to lose him at all costs.
