By Alba Luz Arroyave | Project leader
Nicolas is a small 3-year-old boy, who lives in Tunja, a municipality located northeast of the Colombian capital, with his family. Among his qualities is that he loves to dream and has a lot of fun playing, he is not shy and he loves to socialize with people, while he worries about discovering everything around him. He is very funny, intelligent, active and kind child.
This little boy has a disease called Retinoblastoma, which began when at three months of age, his father noticed a light in the child's left eye and decided to take him to pediatrics, he was remitted to the optometrist and then to the ophthalmologist in the city of Bogota, which determined an alert in the eyes of Nicolas.
His family decided to request a particular appointment to review it and there the doctor who saw it clarified the condition, had an advance of 80% of eye cancer in both eyes. His parents decided to operate it the following week and it was nucleated. From this surgery, he was scheduled for 5 chemotherapies, cryotherapy and thermotherapy, and seeing no positive results in his recovery, he got contacts that brought her to our Children's Hospital San Vicente Fundacion, to access the Retinoblastoma program. From the treatments that were performed to Nicolas his visual condition improved, he had rapid evolution and the response to the treatment was the best.
Nicolas has a 12-year-old brother whom he misses every day since he cannot accompany him to his treatments, but he is very happy for the results he has had. His mother says: "I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't arrived here." And she affirms with her husband, that they have had very good attention in the Hospital, that they feel proud and trust the good service that this provides.
Nicolas and his family are very Catholic and full of hope in God, they are always full of faith and desire to move forward, which has helped them throughout the process. They fully trust the Hospital and recommend it, as well as their doctors because they consider them very willing and very human.
Nicolas is a child benefited from the attention of our Hospital and our specialists. To continue helping children like Nicolas, you can donate to our program and allow more children like him to benefit.
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