Jy hoef nie bang te wees nie en moet beslis nie moed opgee nie, s\u00ea \u2019n tiener (18), wat vir die meeste van die jaar teen kanker baklei het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En nou wil hy en sy gesin ander aanmoedig om te praat as hulle voel iets is nie pluis nie, veral as dit in \u2019n ongemaklike plek soos in die testikels is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die tiener, Wynand Goosen, wat in die Paarl bly, is in sy vierde jaar aan die Vaardigheidskool Westcliff in Bellville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy is iemand wat klaarblyklik min praat, maar wat geen tekort aan moed het nie, en \u2019n reuse-ondersteuningstelsel het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aan die begin van die jaar het sy ouers, Marleze en Jaco, en sy ouer broer, Tiaan, begin agterkom Wynand ervaar ongemak in sy onderlyf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSoos tienerseuns nou maar is, praat hulle nie oor sulke dinge as daar gevra is wat fout is nie,\u201d s\u00ea Jaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle het egter begin agterkom daar is swelling, veral as Wynand stywer broeke soos \u2019n denim aangetrek het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle het Wynand na \u2019n manlike huisdokter gevat wat hom dadelik na \u2019n spesialis verwys het, wat hy so gou moontlik moes spreek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hul ergste vrese is bewaarheid. Wynand het testikul\u00eare kanker gehad. Hy is kort daarna geopereer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die noodoperasie het egter nog slegte nuus meegebring \u2013 die kanker het na sy longe en limfkliere versprei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die nuus het die familie op verskillende maniere geraak. Tiaan, sy broer, s\u00ea hy het net in die kar geklim en gery. \u201cDit was \u2019n baie groot skok.\u201d Sy ouers was emosioneel. \u201cMaak nie saak hoe groot of klein jou kind is nie, dit slaan jou hart,\u201d s\u00ea Jaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wynand het egter die hele situasie goed hanteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy het my net een kyk gegee en ges\u00ea: Pappa, dit is oukei, kom ons kry dit agter die rug.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wynand moes talle chemoterapie-sessies ondergaan en moes vir maande van die skool wegbly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit vir was die gesin \u2019n wipwarit van emosies. Dit was \u2019n slegte tyd, maar daar was ook diepe dankbaarheid vir elke stukkie positiewe nuus wat hulle ontvang het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVoor elke chemobehandeling kon begin, moes sy bloed getrek word om die merkers te monitor. Genadiglik het dit elke keer verbeter,\u201d s\u00ea Jaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In een stadium het hy \u2019n kiem opgedoen en moes hy vir vyf dae in die hospitaal opgeneem word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit het sy terapie vertraag en beteken hy sou eers later kon klaarkry. Dit was vir hom sleg, erken Wynand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was ook sleg toe sy hare weens die chemoterapie begin uitval het. Later het hy als laat afskeer. \u201cToe hy daar sit en die bietjie hare wat hy nog gehad het, word geskeer, kon ek sien dat hy vrede gemaak het en ek kon nie anders as om saam met hom hartseer te wees nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jaco het in solidariteit ook sy hare afgeskeer. Maar selfs dit was nie soos in die flieks nie, want syne het gou weer teruggegroei en Wynand s\u2019n het nog vir maande weggebly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het ook sy vriende gemis en was dikwels baie moeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar eintlik was Wynand self deur die hele proses baie positief. Dit het dit makliker gemaak om alles een dag op \u2019n slag te vat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c \u2019n Mens dink mos altyd dit gebeur net met ander mense,\u201d s\u00ea Jaco. \u201cVir ons as gesin was dit \u2019n moeilike tyd om die nuus te kry dat kanker by ons kind, wat in die fleur van sy lewe is, gediagnoseer is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 maande van chemoterapie het die goeie nuus uiteindelik in Augustus gekom: Wynand se kanker is in remissie. Hy is weer terug by die skool en gaan dikwels vir ondersoeke om te kyk of iets fout is. Die gesin is nou dankbaar vir elke oomblik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle voel egter almal dis belangrik om meer openlik te wees oor dinge wat pla. \u201cMense praat maklik oor borskanker, maar nie eintlik oor testikul\u00eare kanker nie,\u201d s\u00ea Marleze. \u201cMoenie bang wees om te praat as jy dink iets is nie soos dit moet wees nie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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