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“I feel neither good, nor bad. I feel nothing. My only son and husband lie motionless in the cold earth of the cemetery… and here I am within these four walls,” whispers Grandma Lamara barely audibly, wiping her dry eyes. Not a single tear has been left in 17 years – she’s cried it all out. She cries, crying from within, shrouded in darkness. She wants to die, to be near those she has lost, but death seems to avoid her, and condemns her to endless torment.
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Ill children
Mariam is sick with all the diseases of the world! There isn’t a single healthy spot on the small, tormented body of this unfortunate child! She was born with multiple diseases: everything hurts the girl! Her liver was located in the intestine, she has multiple heart defects, an open arterial duct, urinary tract infection, pneumonia, multiple rib fractures… She spent 6 months in the intensive care unit. She fought for her life, battled with death, and survived. Her mother was told that the girl is under God’s protection because children like her usually never survive.
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Ill adults
Nani had to endure many hurtful words throughout her years. The pain caused by them hurts her stronger than physical pain. “Ugly,” “crooked”… she can’t even remember them all. Now she is a strong 65-year-old woman. She is no longer afraid of hurtful words, but her wounds inflicted by sharp words still haven’t healed.
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“Nina began to suffocate – I heard her wheezing. I did everything possible to save my daughter, to help her breathe, but nothing helped. She stopped breathing, started turning blue. Her little hands became weak, and her fingers began to freeze… Nina’s heart stopped… Oh God! I know what hell looks like!” On that day, Nina almost died… her heart stopped and while the ambulance was taking her to the hospital, her brain shut down. Subsequently, Nina lost her vision and is now on life support. For 2 years now, the little beauty has been in the palliative care unit of the hospital, and doctors cannot make a prognosis for when her mother will finally manage to embrace her disease-ridden daughter. They shrug their shoulders and say – “Pray.”
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If you want to curse a man, just tell him: “I wish your children were sick. And that’s it – he’ll be the most miserable person on the planet. “I don’t know how I find the strength to live, how I manage not to go crazy.” I think God gives strength to mothers who have sick children. I have two sons and both are sick. Gabriel, 5, and Lasha-Giorgi, 18-month-old. Gabriel has cerebral palsy – he can’t move or do anything on his own. Every month we lie in the hospital or in a rehabilitation center, and Lasha-Giorgi, a martyr, has been in an intensive care unit since birth, hooked up to machines. I haven’t even taken him in my arms, haven’t hugged him. He probably thinks he doesn’t have a mother.”
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“If I die today, my grandson will die tomorrow, or maybe he will be buried alive with me, because nobody wants him but me! Nobody wants him… his mother left him, and his father left him. They left their sick child and found happiness elsewhere” – says Malardo and hides her eyes. She is ashamed for Soso’s mother and the father. Who needs a sick man? And they are still young, they can give birth to new and healthy children!
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My only son has been in this unbearable condition for thirty years now. Do you understand my pain and my helplessness? No, you don’t, and I beg God that none of you will ever know this grief! Looking at my son’s torment for thirty years is… this… this is the harshest sentence, a heavy cross, which is already very hard for me to bear alone. That’s why, I want you to hear my plea. Talking about it out loud is as hard as the suffering itself. But, if I don’t speak out now, if you don’t help me, don’t support me, we will perish…” – Mrs. Lali Koplatadze cannot hold back her tears, telling us about her misfortune.
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“Mom, are you “died” or just sleeping? Mom, you won’t stop breathing, will you? If I behave well, they won’t cut off anything else from you, will they? If I hug you, won’t it hurt you?” – 5-year-old George walks around his mother’s bed and tries to cheer up his mother. She took a strong painkiller, but the nasty pain that is tearing her from the inside does not calm down. She worries because her children are witnessing this.
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16-year-old Beka has never taken a single step on his own. He doesn’t know what it’s like to play football with boys. He can only dream about it. He used to dream about it more often, he even asked his mother to sit him next to the window so that I could see the children who were chasing the ball like crazy. He was sure that soon his legs would be able to support him. Over time, it became more and more painful for Beka to look at the frisky boys … And now, even from the screams coming from the yard, tears well up in his eyes. He knows he will never be able to play football. But at least walk a few steps on his own – is that possible?
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“You have no idea how much my feet miss the ground. My feet haven’t walked on it for so long. I really want to see my yard, look at the village. But I lie alone in bed all day. I can’t even turn down the volume on this damn radio – it’s been yelling since yesterday and it’s driving me crazy. Wouldn’t it be better if the stroke completely killed me? Now I am neither alive nor dead. (Marina cries).
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“They say a person can endure hunger for 30 days. I starved for seven days – I could not stand it anymore. Then I lost consciousness. What to do, there was no one to ask for bread … I was embarrassed to ask. So, I kept starving… When I felt bad, I left the house, and I don’t remember anything what happened after that…”- tells us a 52-year-old woman – Lela Osepashvili – who was completely exhausted by a long illness and was left without hope because of loneliness. She weighs only 42 kilograms. Lela has breast cancer. She also had a stroke, and her speech has not fully recovered. Besides that, she suffers multiple diseases: inflammation of the gallbladder, rheumatism, vein disease. Due to a decrease in immunity, she often catches colds and suffers from pneumonia.
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Low-income families
Anastasia has had a sore throat for the second week now. She no longer has the strength to even cry. Swallowing and chewing hurt her. Even drinking water hurts. Anastsia (6-year-old): Look, it’s like I have fire and knives in there. As if someone walks there and bites me. I can’t stand this pain anymore, even talking hurts me. Ilina: Is this life? I can’t take my child to the doctor: there is no money either for a doctor or for transport. The neighbors said they would raise money and help us. God, not the kids! I am ready to get sick myself, not to eat myself, but the children… They suffer so much.
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