Help Reda Abed and Family Overcome Medical Crisis

My name is Reda Abed. I am married and have four children. I am 40 years old. I have a brain hematoma, two masses in the abdominal area, and an old heart problem. I have had more than one stroke. I suffer from a continuous and mild drop in blood pressure and sugar level, difficulty in balance, dizziness, and partial loss of memory. The brain problem cannot be treated with memory medications because they cause an increase in hematoma bleeding. It is impossible to perform surgery or gamma knife treatment or any surgical intervention, because of the danger of surgery and its low success rate. My condition now depends on the use of tonics and painkillers of various types.

I need an operation to remove abdominal tumors and an operation to narrow the arteries in the foot that were exposed to two strokes. I suffer from the frequent use of medication from the fracture and falling of molars and the presence of a blood mass in the mouth next to the lower jaw. Both problems cause me difficulty in eating dry foods. In addition to my suffering from weak immunity, I have a severe irritable bowel problem, which caused me to be prevented from most types of food, especially starches.

My four children have illnesses due to the difficulty of the pregnancy period in terms of care and exposure to more than one war and taking different types of medications and painkillers during pregnancy. My eldest son is 17 years old and suffers from seven types of environmental and food allergies and asthma. The second daughter is 15 years old. She was exposed to a shock that caused her weight to increase from 44 kg to 90 kg (97lbs to 198lbs) and she suffered from diabetes and fatty liver and a mass in her neck measuring 12 cm. She needs surgery in addition to following a diet along with taking her medications. Her follow-up was stopped at the beginning of the war. The third daughter is 12 years old. She has an electrical percentage in the brain that causes her to faint. She has a neurogenic bladder and suffers from many recurring kidney problems. The youngest daughter is 7 years old. At the beginning of the war, she was exposed to inhaling dust and simple shrapnel in the face, which caused her chest allergy and some simple wounds in the face.

I was displaced on the second day of the war because I lost my home and I was unable to get the simplest things from it due to the severity of the destruction. I left with a medical referral with my daughters for treatment in the Arab Republic of Egypt four months ago. Months passed, but to no avail, because of the need for some tests, procedures and follow-ups that I could not complete due to the lack of money and the difficulty of dealing with them due to the numbers present in the hospital. Currently, I am with my daughters and a companion, and our financial and psychological situation is very difficult, due to the lack of income and due to the procedures preventing the simplest requirements and the threat of expulsion from the hospital, and our circumstances are very difficult due to the children’s needs, especially the need of three of us for certain types of food due to our illnesses that the hospital does not provide and we cannot obtain from outside, because the hospital prevents us from leaving unless we leave permanently.

We all suffer from anxiety, depression and tension due to the fear of expulsion and the fear of our inability to provide the simplest needs. Also, my daughters have become, due to their constant presence in the room, suffering from bone and eye pain due to being deprived of going out into the sunlight and they have become violent in dealing with them due to their psychology and exposure to the sounds of bombing and displacement and because they saw some scenes of wounded and injured people and left an impact on their souls that was reflected in the nature of their sleep and caused them to see nightmares of fear. We need help to complete the treatment and rent a house until the war ends and we return to our country. We are looking for a place to live, because my brain problems are increasing with the inability to have surgery, but the doctor advised me to rest as much as possible and maintain my blood pressure level and take tonics and painkillers and healthy food. Currently, I have no money or source of income or a house here or in Gaza, and I do not even have the simplest things and needs of the children, and we suffer from the threat of expulsion despite not completing my treatment. All we hope for is a house and completing my treatment and treating my little girls and providing the necessary needs to continue our lives and improve our psychological conditions.