\u2019n Ouerpaar van Bloemfontein het saam \u2019n boek uitgegee vir hul enigste dogter nadat sy twee jaar gelede aan komplikasies weens diabetes oorlede is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie Deutschmann het die boek Precious Gem <\/i>geskryf om hul dogter, Gemma (13), se lewe te huldig en om haar op- en afdraande pad met hiperinsulinisme, \u2019n seldsame siekte waar die pankreas te veel insulien afskei, te deel. Haar man, Michael, het die boek geredigeer en taalversorg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In hul huis in Brandwag is nie net die mure nie, maar tot die koffietafel vol van foto\u2019s van Gemma en haar broers, Bryce (14) en Thabo (9), leerlinge aan die St. Andrew\u2019s School in die stad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar sal altyd drie wees,\u201d lui Debbie se WhatsApp-status met twee blou harte en \u2019n rooi stukkende hart tussenin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of sy netjies in haar Eunice-drag glimlag en of sy laf poseer as die vrolike \u201cGem Squash\u201d, soos haar maats haar liefderik genoem het, bring die foto\u2019s van haar \u2019n stukkie sonlig na elke hoek in die huis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die boek het gehelp, s\u00ea Michael, wat muurbal afrig by verskeie skole in die stad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaar ek moes soort van die 13 jaar herleef, so dit was regtig moeilik om oor en oor daardeur te werk. Dit gaan nie weg nie, maar dit het tog gehelp om gereeld daaroor te praat, en ek dink dis wat met die boek gebeur het \u2013 jy kry die geleentheid om jou ervaring met mense te deel. Ons almal ervaar verlies anders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle wou die boek betyds vir haar 16de verjaardag in September uitbring om haar lewe te vier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is \u2019n vertelling van \u201cDag 1 tot Dag Zero\u201d, en dit beskryf groot ingrypings wat Gemma met die siekte moes deurmaak, soos toe die grootste deel van haar pankreas \u2013 95% \u2013 in \u2019n hospitaal in Londen verwyder moes word toe sy maar vyf jaar oud was. Vir vyf jaar daarna het sy normaal funksioneer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle moes die moeilike besluit neem om nog 3% te verwyder omdat haar insulienvlakke te veel gefluktueer het, wat daartoe gelei het dat sy diabetes ontwikkel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gemma was ook in \u2019n stadium in \u2019n hospitaal in Oostenryk om haar van voedingsbuise af te kry. Dit is danksy geld wat mense van oor die land heen geskenk het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie het vandat Gemma vyf jaar oud was blog-inskrywings en foto\u2019s aanlyn geplaas, en nou is haar hele lewensverhaal in die boek vervat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het \u2019n skryfkursus in Clarens, waar die egpaar die laaste paar maande \u2019n hotel bedryf het, gedoen en toe \u2019n langer kursus in die Kaap verlede jaar November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk skryf graag vanuit die hart, maar die kursusse het my geleer om met diepte te skryf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baie mense, insluitend nabye familie en haar klasmaats, het nie eens geweet Gemma is so siek nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het die siekte so goed hanteer en die lewe so omarm dat dit vir baie mense \u2019n groot skok was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op skool sou Gemma saggies vir die juffrou s\u00ea sy voel nie lekker nie, maar sy wou nooit gehad het die w\u00eareld moet om haar siekte draai nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oorlewing was deel van waaroor haar lewe gegaan het, en die gesin het dit dag vir dag gevat. Met die inperking het hulle baie van hul tyd by die familie se gastehuis in Lesotho bestee en daar gewerk, en Gemma het veral met die laaste besoek \u201cduisende\u201d foto\u2019s geneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gemma en Bryce is n\u00e1 die inperking na die koshuis, iets wat Gemma baie geniet het, maar ook as spanning ervaar het. Hulle het \u2019n manier gesoek om nader aan hul kinders te wees, s\u00ea Debbie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nadat Gemma onverwags met die 100ste besoek aan die hospitaal gesterf het, is die gesin na Clarens vir sewe maande en daarna is hulle na \u2019n hotel in die KwaZulu-Natalse Middellande om dit te bestuur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Debbie het die seuns tuis onderrig, en hulle was ook \u2019n ruk in \u2019n alternatiewe skool wat fokus op spel en so min as moontlik huiswerk. Terug in Bloemfontein voel hulle nader aan haar, en die struktuur wat die skool bied, help die seuns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
St. Andrew\u2019s het \u2019n sielkundige wat Thabo goed bystaan oor die verlies van sy ousus en om weer aan te pas in \u2019n hoofstroomskool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns praat nog baie oor Gemma, soveel as wat ons kan,\u201d s\u00ea Michael. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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