Her Leukemia Had Made Her Blind, Since Her Son Was Only Three, He’d Acted as His Mom’s Eyes

From the Front Page Sections, translated…

“My one and only wish is to take my children’s hands, and see them off to school.”, this seemingly simple wish, it took Ya-Jun SIX years to finally finish, the thirty-eight year-old woman was diagnosed with leukemia six years ago, and the cancer got to her eyes, he rsight became very deteriorated, back then, her just three-year-old son, Cheng-Han became his mom’s left eye, for six years, he’d taken his mother’s hands to cross the intersections, to wait for the busses, to go see the doctors; and now, Ya-Jun had her marrow transplant, it became her turn, to take Cheng-Han’s hands to take him to school, she was moved, beyond words.

The Cancer Hope Foundation yesterday published the needs of the cancer patients’ results, the results showed that fifty-percent of cancer patients can’t sleep well, forty-percent were depressed, almost thirty-percent don’t want to go out, nearly forty-percent was under economic duress, there are also, more than half of the surveyed cancer patients with dietary needs, as well as caretaking needs too; once these needs were, overlooked, it would be difficult, for the cancer patients to comply with their treatment measures, because they’re overcome with sadness and sorrows, or are depressed, which would get in the way of their treatment procedures.

In order to help the families of cancer patients fight, Ya-Jun and Cheng-Han showed up for the fundraising activities, they wanted to raise $5,000,000N.T. by the end of the year, to give the cancer patients’ families the trainings they needed to look after their loved ones, to offer emergency assistance, to fund for the needed recovery products too. The umbrellas with the designs made by the young boy, Cheng-Han was also put up for the purposes of sales, the heart on the umbrella symbolized his love, the small light on the elephant’s nose symbolized how he’d wanted his mother’s cancer to shrink, he hoped, that as people used the umbrellas, there would be enough kindness, to help his mother fight her cancer.

the woman and her son, photo courtesy of the UDN papers…

Ya-Jun never imagined, that she would get diagnosed with leukemia one day, the very first chemotherapy she’d had, it’d caused her to have sepsis and pancreatitis, she was, fighting to live. She’d had the long-term hospital stay of 332 days, and can only use webcam to see her baby, and, the process of waiting for bone marrow transplant was also, very difficult too, she’d cried almost every single day.

Ya-Jun said, that at the beginning stages of her cancer, the cancer attacked her left eyes, caused her to have macular degeneration, and, her failing sight caused her to trip and fall often.

But, Cheng-Han’s little hands offered her warmth, not only did he draw the pictures, to protect his own mom, he’d taken her hand in his, to accompany her to the doctor’s appointments, to wait for the bus with her, she said, “Mommy don’t cry, we have the shrinking lights of Doraemon and the gigantic tyrannosaurus with us, no matter how big or fierce the bad guys get, you shouldn’t fear, I will keep on, protecting you.”

So, this, is the love of a young boy toward his own mother, he’d wanted her to get better, and, with the successful transplant, the mother will now be able to, look out for her son, as he’d looked out for her in the past, and, this mother-son pair will be okay in the future.