Mother holds on to hope after being told child does not have long to live

After being told almost two years ago that she will soon lose her child because of a rear illness, a mother still holds on to hope.
Hope, faith or a miracle; what we may individually call it, a 24-year-old West Coast Berbice, Region Five woman is holding on after doctors gave up on her now two-year-old infant Natalia Douglas, who has been diagnosed with Macrocephaly -a condition in which the circumference of the human head is abnormally large.
This is considered as a rear nervous disorder. Yogeeta Chandrapaul said that medically nothing can be done.

“She has hydrocephalus (an abnormal buildup of fluid in the ventricles [cavities] deep within the brain) where there is fluid around the brain and she is just living a normal lifestyle; she is not getting any treatment or anything. The doctors said that if they do a surgery, it would be a very risky one and if they try to operate, she might collapse.”
Back in March last year when this publication first reported on this issue, Chandrapaul said that doctors told her nothing can be done because she has a huge amount of fluid in the child’s head. She had also revealed that an MRI scan, and the scan showed that the brain was occupying less than 20 percent of the infant’s head. She also said she was told that the issue can be rectified only through surgery but doctors are not optimistic that the surgery would be successful.
Now Chandrapaul says she is just holding on to hopes.
“The scan showed that she has less than 20 percent is brain and Dr Dukhi (a neurosurgeon) say that he did surgeries with children with less than 25 percent and they don’t normally survive. So, that is why he is saying that I should enjoy the most I can with her right now because it could be fatal at any time. At this point I would accept any sort of assistance,” she said.
According to the mother of two, whenever she takes her baby to the Georgetown Hospital Clinic, while the staff give her good advice, her spirit is damper.
“They would always tell me that I have to be very careful because she can start deteriorating at a fast rate and I have to be very careful. With her at home every day, she is very strong; she is not sickly – she is very playful. Because of what they keep telling me I quit the clinic,” she said.
Chandrapaul can be contacted on telephone number (592) 672-6663.