{"id":2221,"date":"2019-03-04T20:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2019-03-04T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:48:08","slug":"six-months-left-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"\u2018\u2026SIX MONTHS LEFT TO LIVE\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sashane Shakes<\/strong> – Staff Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renae Foster has been\nliving a nightmare. On days when she is able to dodge her 7-year-old son\u2019s\nquestion of whether or not he is going to die, she has to contend with the\npainful reality that if he doesn\u2019t get the requisite help, he may in fact die\nsoon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe keeps asking me, \u2018Mummy me go dead? Tell me the honest truth,\u2019 because he realizes what\u2019s going on,\u201d a burdened Foster shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ADMITTED: A glum Dre Morris sits on his bed at hospital where he now spends his days after being diagnosed with Aplastic Anaemia recently.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now caught in a scramble, Foster is running out of time to\nsecure funds to cover the expenses concerning her ailing 7-year-old, Dre\nMorris. Morris was diagnosed with Aplastic Anaemia \u2013 a rare disease in which\nthe bone marrow and the hematopoietic stem that cells that reside there are\ndamaged, and unless he is able to participate in a study in the United States,\nhe may not be cured of his illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foster, a sales representative, has already secured\npassports for both her and her son, and plans are afoot to have the two obtain\ntheir visas. Additionally, through a referral programme at the Cornwall\nRegional Hospital, treatment and boarding are being covered by the host\ninstitution which will be treating Dre \u2013 the National Institute of Health,\nbased in Maryland, USA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem, however, is that Foster is unable to source\nairfare to and from the US, and has not been able to acquire much-needed funds\nto cover food for them both to last the required seven months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Dre and his rare illness, his treatment is expected to\nlast up to five years in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018SICKY, SICKY\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was at their home in Porto Bello, St. James last October\nthat foster started noticing subtle glitches in her son\u2019s health, which she\ninitially passed off as Flu symptoms. Dre would also have instances of fever\nthat fluctuated from severely high to low, which brought with it a mild cough\nthat eventually, with medication that was prescribed after a visit to the\nMontego Bay Comprehensive Clinic (Type V), went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll of a sudden, him just \u2018sicky sicky\u2019. He\u2019s been sick\nbefore but not like this. As him sick and better so, him sick again,\u201d admitted\nFoster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after, when it was believed that his Flu had cleared\nup, his skin started showing wheal marks. Foster presumed it to be the result\nof food poisoning, but then, the fever flared up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final straw, however, was when Dre started having nose\nbleeds, as well as when he started vomiting blood, which resulted in Foster\nrushing him to the Cornwall Regional Hospital. There, his nose was plugged and\nblood tests conducted, which revealed that he had a low blood count as a result\nof Aplastic Anaemia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo me he probably has about six (6) months left to live if\nhe doesn\u2019t start receiving treatment soon. It sounds bad and I hate to think\nthat way but it\u2019s how I feel. I can\u2019t stand to see the situation he\u2019s in,\u201d said\na teary-eyed Foster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOVED BY ALL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe worst part is that he is a good kid. Anything me ask\nhim to do, him do it.  Me no feel say him\ndeserve this,\u201d said his mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A student of the Chetwood Memorial Primary, Dre got good\ngrades and Foster relayed that his teacher and his classmates miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dre\u2019s father, Clifford Morris, is hoping for a miracle for\nhis son real soon. But his older brother, Raphel Ferguson, who also attends\nChetwood Memorial Primary, sends positive energy to his brother by making\nencouraging short videos on his mother\u2019s smartphone, which Foster shows to Dre\non visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMe just want me son fi go back to normal. Me will take all\nthe help me can get fi him before the time run out. Him bright and him helpful,\nso him no deserve none a this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe keeps asking if he\u2019s going to die. He didn\u2019t really\nunderstand at first but as of late, he has been questioning me about it because\nhe knows he\u2019s supposed to be at school with other children. It\u2019s a mother\u2019s\nworst nightmare me a go through.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone wishing to help Dre Morris can contact his mother at\n(876) 281-5019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sashane Shakes – Staff Reporter Renae Foster has been living a nightmare. On days when she is able to dodge her 7-year-old son\u2019s question of whether or not he is going to die, she has to contend with the painful reality that if he doesn\u2019t get the requisite help, he may in fact die soon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1190,1192,1191,1189,1188,1187],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-7-year-old","tag-aplastic-anaemia","tag-dre-morris","tag-foster","tag-left-to-live","tag-six-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}