Mom discovers what her daughter was doing with her brother in the bathroom and she can’t stop screaming.
Susie and Timmy were siblings, and they were bonded like few others. At
an age when many would be bickering and in constant confrontations, they
were unconditionally and all friends. Susie was seven years old and
Timmy was five, and there was no one in the world that they loved more
than each other.
Susie, being the oldest, was also a guide for her little brother, and
the fact is that the parents of both had been so carefree all their
lives that the girl learned many things about life alone or at school,
where she had a teacher who was always ready to answer all her questions
and everything she was learning. She also transferred it to her little
brother, and together they got through life with no more support than
the one they gave each other.
But they were still children who needed their parents. They needed them
to see them beyond the two mouths they had to feed. They wanted to be
taken seriously, and every day they tried hard to make them realize that
they also fought and felt and were able to understand life so they
could take the time to explain and guide them. But that just never
seemed to happen. Everything got worse when Timmy got sick.
Every day he complained that his stomach hurt, but since it coincided
with the beginning of school for the boy, his parents were convinced
that he was simply trying to get out of going to school, and that’s why
they were even furious when the boy told them that his stomach did not
stop hurting and that when he ate he sometimes felt like vomiting. Six
months had passed and Timmy was still sick and not getting the attention
he needed.
It got worse when he started vomiting at night. Susie told her parents
that her little brother was throwing up his food, but they thought he
had just gotten indigestion and would be fine the next day, and since
there was simply no way they would believe Timmy that he was sick and
wounded in their dignity, the two siblings decided that they would not
bother them anymore. Susie then assumed that she was the only one who
could take care of him because only she cared about him and did not
leave Timmy alone at any time.
Gradually accompanying him to vomit and holding him while he vomited
became a habit that happened more and more often until it was a daily
routine. The boy was getting thinner and was pale and weak all the time,
and at his school they noticed it. But when they asked Timmy’s parents
if the boy was suffering from any illness, they flatly denied it and
excuse themselves by simply saying that he was going through a stage of
poor appetite, which, according to them, was very normal at his age
because they had gone through it too that soon he would start eating
normally and his appearance would improve, but that it was not an
illness. In the meantime, Timmy was finding it harder and harder to keep
his food down, and also his concentration and strength were
disappearing little by little. In class.
He was not able to pay attention, and he did not go out to play full of
energy like all the other children. He preferred to sit in the sun, and
many times he fell asleep, and even though so many people saw them, only
Susie was able to understand that he was sick, and she could only hope
that soon someone would pay attention to him. One night the mother went
into the bathroom and found a scene she never thought she would see.
There was Susie helping her little brother hold himself up while he
was vomiting, a bloody vomit that seemed to be tearing the little boy
from the inside, and when the boy finished and looked at her, she
realized she had been blind for a long time and started screaming in
complete shock. Her son was sick, she didn’t know from what, but he had
been sick for a while now, and it was obvious the children had told them
and they hadn’t paid attention.
So they had decided to fend for themselves by making as little noise
as possible, trying to hide it as if they were doing something wrong.
Susie and Timmy were so young that they didn’t know how serious it could
be for the poor child to vomit like that and endure his terrible
stomach pains without any treatment. Nor did they know that none of it
was really their fault, but the fault of irresponsible parents who had
failed to pay attention. All Susie wanted was to help her brother feel
better, and for that reason the boy adored her because she was his
biggest support and the only one who was looking out for him all the
time. On the other hand, his parents did not know what care and love
were.
The boy told them hundreds of times that his stomach hurt, and they
had never paid attention to him, assuming that it was some childish
strategy to avoid eating his food, and nothing was really wrong with
him. At no time did it occur to them to think that maybe their son was
sick and that complaining so many times about a pain was not normal.
And the fact is that there are parents to whom the title is too big
for them, parents who neglect their children, believing that their job
is limited to giving them a roof and food when it is much more than
that. And if a parent is not willing to be present in every step their
child takes, if they are not willing to guide them, to teach them to
face life and to be a good person, something would have to be done to
put them in their place. And that was precisely what Timmy’s parents
needed they needed the wakeup call that the doctors gave them that
difficult night because Timmy was so weak that his little body seemed to
be unable to resist any longer.
And now he was in the emergency room, and although they were slow to
realize what was happening to him and needed to do several tests, that
took many days. When the diagnosis finally came, everyone in the unit,
doctors and nurses were devastated. The child had cancer in a terminal
state, a cancer that he could have overcome a long time ago if Timmy’s
parents had paid attention to what they were being told. Timmy’s mother
still hadn’t come out of shock, and the father was feeling like the most
miserable man in the world. How was it possible that his son was on the
edge of death when from the beginning he had begged for their
attention?
How had they been able to ignore their own son’s pain without paying
attention to anything else? Not even to Susie, who every day asked them
to take her brother to a doctor? Both of them could not believe their
own indolence, nor that dastardly way they behaved, and the speeches
they were given at the hospital made them feel even worse. But it was
well deserved. The whole time Timmy was in the hospital, they were
constantly reproached by all the medical authorities.
Some nurses were not even able to speak to them. Again, all the
attention was focused on Timmy and saving him at any cost. But after a
couple of weeks, they realized that they had arrived too late. There was
no way to save the little boy, and in the midst of tears and despair,
the only consolation his sister had was that Timmy’s last words were for
her to thank her and ask her to be happy because he would be watching
over her from heaven to understand that now he was going to rest, and
that was why he was at peace. That tranquillity was reflected during his
last breath, and the image of the child was practically of an angel.
Timmy’s parents could never get over knowing that their son had died
because of them and tried to repay at all costs everything they had been
wronged with inordinate attention for Susie. But Susie had already
learned to stand up for herself, and although she grew up and learned to
forgive her parents, the relationship between them could never fully
heal.
The memory of Timmy was still painful, but she was also inspired by it
every day, and as she grew up, she found a way to accomplish the goal
that she had set for herself. Since she had said goodbye to her little
brother, to found a hospital to treat children with cancer, and she
didn’t stop for a second until she did it. Susie became the standard
bearer of the fight against childhood cancer in her country, and until
the last of her days, she helped without looking at whom, and with all
her love because her brother, even so many years later, never stopped
inspiring her.
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