Mother of a young Colombian woman with cancer in the United States: “I have a pain in my heart”

Paula Durán is a 27-year-old from Huila who migrated to California in 2022, USA, along with her husband, Sergio Vega, and their two daughters, ages 9 and 4. However, last November, while she was pregnant with her third child, she was diagnosed with stomach and brain cancer.

The woman had to immediately undergo a cesarean section to deliver the baby at week 34 of gestation and the next day she underwent surgery to remove a part of the tumor from her brain.

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Although little Juan José had to use an artificial respirator in the first days, he is currently in good health. Nevertheless, Paula continues to fight for her life Y her husband is asking the authorities of Colombia and the North American country for a humanitarian visa so that the young woman’s family can accompany her soon, since the doctors assure that his cancer metastasizedbecause it invaded other organs and it is already incurable.

According to VegaPaula was given a month to live. “I need to have Paula’s parents here, I need to have my parents here. I just had a meeting with all the doctors and they gave me news that broke my soul, it tore my heart. It is the worst news I have received in life, medically here in the hospital they are not going to do anything else. They gave my wife a month to live.”said the man.

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The case of this family has moved more than one through social networks and the media, for which many Internet users have made donations or They have joined the call to the authorities of both countries to help Paula to reunite with her relativessince the young woman, due to her delicate medical condition, cannot travel to Colombia.

“They told us that we couldn’t fly, that if she did, with the pressure from the height her brain would swell and that could cause her a hernia and die”Serge explained.

His mother asks for help

Gloria Camargo is the mother of Paula Durán. The woman, in an interview with ‘Noticias Caracol, stated how difficult it has been for her to experience this situation from a distance. “See a mother with great pain in her heart for not being able to be with her daughter at a time as hard as this,” she said.

in the midst of tears, the woman asked for help from President Petro to help her reunite with her daughter: “I wish I could have been with her a long time ago, I know that things are not easy but, please, that President Petro listen to this mother who begs and pleads to intervene with the country of the United States to that they can give me that humanitarian visa,” Camargo told the aforementioned outlet.

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Source: Elcomercio

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