Muhammed Mishab is 11 years old now, the kind of boy who loves to play with his father and little sister and watching cartoons. Roughly a year back everything changed when he was diagnosed with B- ALL. The family from Kozhikode threw themselves into the fight. Chemotherapy at Medical College Kozhikode, long hospital stays, endless medicines they managed the first round with sheer determination and whatever savings they had scrapped together. For a while, it looked like they had won. He went back home, preparing for schooling, started playing again. Then this news hit them.
Mishab was evaluated and reported as relapsed. The news came like a second punch. Doctors said the only real shot now was a bone marrow transplant. The cost were out of hands. They had already stretched themselves thin. Just as they were scrambling to figure out how to even start, another nightmare. Mishab’s father began feeling fatigue and completely wiped out. Swelling in legs, bruises show up and no energy at all. Tests revealed AL amyloidosis is the disease. It’s serious and it needs its own treatments and suddenly the family was battling two life threatening illness at the same time.
Mishab’s mother still tears up remembering old life. She is now running between son’s pre transplant preparation and husband’s appointments, trying to hold everyone together while the money dried up completely. She says no money left, no way forward. That exactly when Leukaemia Crusaders came in. Social worker collected essential documents and acted fast. No long waits that could have risked everything. The support didn’t just pay for medicines and hospital stays. It gave the family space to breath.
Mishab’s journey isn’t over. He now needed to prepare for BMT without any worries as well as his parents. His father’s journey is tough too. But they are still here, still fighting, still dreaming about normal days. One act of support can hold two lives together.
