Four-year-old Adlea Ry’Kyla lies sleeping in a hospital bed too big for her, wrapped up in a bright pink Barbie blanket that covers the many tubes snaking from her wrist and the small needle puncture wounds that dot her skinny arms.
She looks peaceful while she rests, but for the little girl, every minute ticking past is time lost – she has only weeks to live if she does not receive a human heart transplant.
“She can’t eat; she will vomit because of her foot infection,” said Nor’s mother, Norleen Osman, 33. “She is in agony, and every night she groans and cries.”
Norleen and her four children depend on her security supervisor husband’s monthly pay of about $2,200. The cost of such an operation would set the family back by at least $500,000, a sum that they will never be able to raise on their own.
“We try our best to cut down, we’ve applied for Medifund, but there’s not enough money.” said the housewife, whose family of six stays in a two-room rental flat in Ang Mo Kio.
Norleen is appealing to the public for financial help for her daughter. Full story
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