Nesanel and his mother are begging us for help!

• Published date: 23 January 2023

Twenty-four hours after birth, he went blue, but an alert staff member noticed and quickly hooked him up to oxygen, saving his life

A series of scans revealed the next difficult piece of news:

The orphaned infant, who didn't even have a name yet, had a serious heart defect.

At one day old, he was an orphan.

At two weeks old, he underwent open heart surgery.

The surgery failed, and by the time he was one month old, Nesanel had undergone multiple surgeries.

Today, Nesanel is 11.

His childhood has been rife with hospitalizations, surgeries, medicines and treatments.

Constant operations that are equally life-threatening and life-saving.

Every surgery comes along with an ocean of excruciating pain and weakness, terror and fear of death.

This story is not only Nesanel's.

It's also about his young mother who's raised her orphaned, ill son on her own. Alone.

A young mother who sits each time outside the operating room, waiting for news. Alone.

A mother forced to raise money to cover her son's harrowing surgeries and treatments. Alone.

Every surgery is followed by a month-long recovery process which Nesanel spends in bed.

A bright, sensitive child who, instead of running and playing and learning in school, lies in bed for a full month!

Every surgery means another month that Nesanel's mother spends at his bedside, another month spent watching him carefully to ensure that there is no...