\u2019n Meisie wat maar net ses jaar oud is, het die harte van Wellingtonners gesteel. Mia Coetzee, of beter bekend as Mia the Brave<\/i>, se Facebook-groep ter ondersteuning van die seldsame siekte wat sy het, het al 5 170 lede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Clivus chordoma <\/i>is in Februarie verlede jaar by Mia gediagnoseer nadat sy van maag- en nekpyn gekla het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is \u2019n soort kanker in die vorm van \u2019n gewas wat in die clivus, \u2019n beenagtige deel onder die skedel, groei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anja en Stephen Coetzee, Mia se ouers, het die blad geskep om die gemeenskap op hoogte te hou van haar toestand en om bewusmaking te skep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anja s\u00ea hoewel dit skaars is onder volwassenes is dit nog skaarser onder kinders. \u201cEen uit elke 20 miljoen kinders word geraak waar volwassenes een uit elke miljoen geraak word,\u201d vertel sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mia se dokter het die gesin meegedeel dat sy die jongste pasi\u00ebnt met clivus chordoma <\/i>is wat hy nog behandel het. Anja s\u00ea dit was egter \u2019n stryd om Mia te diagnoseer. Sy is voorheen na \u2019n fisioterapeut verwys omdat haar nek styf was en \u2019n dokter het vir haar vitamine voorgeskryf. Nadat haar linkerogie in Februarie verlede jaar skeef begin trek het, het haar ma haar na \u2019n pediater geneem wat \u2019n breinskandering gedoen het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mia is n\u00e1 verskeie toetse in Mei verlede jaar in Kaapstad geopereer. Di\u00e9 operasie het nege uur geduur en die meeste van die gewas is toe verwyder en dokters moes vet van haar maag af en been uit haar heup verwyder om haar nek te stut nadat die kanker haar clivus <\/i>laat disintegreer het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het dadelik n\u00e1 die operasie wakker geword en die dokters was baie tevrede met haar vordering en hoe vinnig sy haar nek kon regop hou,\u201d vertel Anja. Met \u2019n biopsie van die gewas is toe vasgestel dat dit wel clivus chordoma <\/i>was. Sy het tussen Junie en Augustus ses weke \u2013 vyf dae per week \u2013 bestraling ondergaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mia was intussen relatief pynvry en het selfs in Februarie aan \u2019n wedloop vir kankerbewusmaking deelgeneem. Ongelukkig het Anja laat in April vanjaar uitgevind Mia se gewas is terug en chemo-behandeling was in Mia se geval nie \u2019n opsie nie omdat dit te straf sal wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar dokters is bereid om \u2019n nuwe immuuninhibeerder met die naam Nivolumab te probeer, maar dit kos R10 000 per week sonder hospitaalkoste. \u201cAs ons nie verdere behandeling gaan doen nie, sal Mia gemaklik en pynvry gehou word, maar sy sal net nog \u2019n paar maande leef,\u201d vertel Anja. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anja s\u00ea Mia se stokperdjies is kuns en om met haar fiets te ry en sy is lief vir kos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy was \u2019n besige klein meisietjie soos haar sussie, Lara,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anja se raad aan ander ouers is om dit nie te ignoreer as hul kinders van pyn in die nek, rug of kop kla nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWees bedag vir die simptome,\u201d waarsku sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Coetzee-gesin het \u2019n trust vir Mia gestig vir skenkings vir haar behandeling. Gemeenskapslede wat dit wil ondersteun, kan haar Facebook-blad besoek vir nog inligting en kontakbesonderhede. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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