Mariam is having a hard time. She is ill. She is not like others. She can talk, read, write, dream, like her peers, but since her childhood she cannot walk. Can you imagine, friends, how hard it is for her family, living in in complete poverty, to see her suffering? They are so poor that they cannot help her!

Such an ending would be just right for this story. Don't you believe me? Then take a few minutes to read a story about all the horrors in the life of an old and sick woman and her loving son.

“Sometimes I dream that I'm walking again... Then I open my eyes and try to move my leg and arm. But nothing comes of it... It hurts when I realize that that was just a dream. And I get depressed. It feels like I became a hostage to my own body,” - says 31-year-old Goga Berishvili. The man’s eyes get wet. He tries to hide them, but you can hear despair in his every word.

- A four-year-old boy whispers pitifully and starts crying. Tears run down his cheeks. In the boy’s eyes, one can see such immense suffering and grief that it hurts even to look at it!

Cancer! Is there any word that sounds scarier? It all started with a tiny pimple, which looked harmless. And after just a couple of months, 46-year-old Khvicha was diagnosed with the fourth stage of soft tissue sarcoma.

- I will be operated on for the seventh time - and I almost certainly will not survive the operation! I experienced clinical death four times...I am ready to die for the sake of my baby, but how will he live without me, dear people? Nobody will kiss him so tenderly; nobody will hold him to heart like his mother ... - Lord, save my life! - she asks God. - Let the operation be successful! - the brave lady named Lela says to me! This is she who deserves medal! She is a real heroine!

“Look carefully, ma’am: if my mother’s lips suddenly start to turn blue, you need to call for help - 7-year-old Irma warns me seriously, just like an adult, and looks into my eyes incredulously. - I don’t know how to give shots, and what about you? But I will definitely learn it soon!"

"I am not afraid of death, I am afraid for my daughter, for my husband, they are sick and cannot cope without me!" - Lela bursts into tears. A year ago, she was diagnosed with the last stage of cancer. It would seem, that nothing could be worse. But this is only a small piece of the grief that befell this kind Georgian family...

“Pain stabs me again and again ... And every step is like torture ...” - says Teona, mother of 5-year-old Demetre and 14-year-old Luka. Her eyes are full of tears and inconsolable despair. "Everything I love hangs in the balance ... Doctors have not been able to diagnose me for more than a year, and we have already spent absolutely everything on consultations, tests, examinations, and there is still no end to this ... Oh woe, woe!" Teona raised her eyes to the sky, and tears streamed down her cheeks. “Mommy, I won't give you to anyone, ever,” says 5-year-old Demetre and hugs his mom tightly. What is multiple sclerosis? Teona answers this way: "Tomorrow, when I wake up, I don't know if I will remember that these are my children ..."