Ibali likaSakthi

Safumanisa ngenyanga yesibhozo, kuvavanyo lwesiqhelo lokukhulelwa. Amagama abawasebenzisayo besingazange sisive: i-Vein of Galen Malformation. Umsonto wemithambo-gazi engqondweni yosana lwethu.

Emva koko kwaza inxalenye engekho namnye okulumkisayo ngayo. Ingekhona isifumaniso — kukukhangela. Sasingazi ukuba ngubani onokunyanga oku. Sasingazi enoba nabani na eIndiya angakwazi ukunyanga oku. Yaye yonke imini esiyichithe sikhangela ibiyimini esasingaqinisekanga ukuba sinayo.

Ekugqibeleni ndenza yona kuphela into endandinokuyicinga. Ndabhalela i-imeyile ku-Dr Alejandro Berenstein eNew York — omnye woogqirha bokuqala ehlabathini ukunyanga le meko. Umntu ongaziwayo, kwilizwekazi elinye, ongenaso nasinye isizathu sokundiphendula.

Ugqirha owayenokusindisa intombi yethu wayekwisixeko sethu ngokwaso. Kwaye eyona ndlela sambona ngayo yayiyi-imeyile eya kwintsomi eManhattan.

UDr Paramasivam wacwangcisa unyango lwakhe. Wadlula kwimijikelo emininzi ye-embolisation — umsonto uyavalwa ngaphakathi kwemithambo-gazi, hayi ngokuvulwa kokhakhayi — kwaye kamva wafuna i-shunt, emva kokopha. Kwathatha ixesha elide, kwaye kwakoyikisa, kwaye kwasebenza.

Ndicinge kakhulu ngethamsanqa elikweli bali. Ingekhona amayeza — amayeza ebubuchule. Ithamsanqa yayikukuba ndabhalela umntu ochanekileyo, owaye owazi apho owayesakuba ngumsebenzi-qhelwano wakhe eye khona.

Akukho mzali ekufuneka abe nethamsanqa ukuze afumanise ukuba umntwana wakhe angasindiswa.

Sisiso isizathu esipheleleyo esikhoyo lo mbutho. Sizama ukuba yiloo imeyile — kuye wonke umntu, kwangoko, ngaphandle kokuba kufuneka bazi ukuba uDr Berenstein ukwelinye icala layo.