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Sep 28, 2013 News
“My daughter is eight and my son is 12. They are the main reasons I have to make it. Who will look after them if I am gone?” Dawn DaSilva wondered just before leaving Guyana for her most important journey.
Last week in Trinidad, Neurologist Dr Robert Ramcharran performed a successful surgery to remove a tumor in DaSilva’s ‘middle brain’ at the St Clair Medical Associates Hospital in Port-of -Spain and informed that the single parent mother of two is now awaiting an biopsy to determined if the tumor is cancerous.
Speaking from Trinidad, Dawn’s father informed that if everything goes to plan, his daughter has to spend at least 28 days in Trinidad before she can travel.
Dawn hails from Berbice and has worked at Eureka Labs for the past 16 years. It was reported that the 40-year-old is now out of the ICU and speaking.
Dawn grew up in Corentyne, before moving to New Amsterdam. She has been living in Georgetown for the past 15 years.
“I first realized something was wrong when I started getting this strange numbness on the side of my face about a year ago, but I did not make much of it until I started getting severe migraine headaches a little after that,” she explained in an interview with Kaieteur News.
Last year August, she was advised to do a CT scan before doing an MRI exam. The tests confirmed that she had a tumor which was affecting her vision and memory. The surgery cost US$ 27,000 and doctors say the next two weeks are critical to her recovery.
“I truly believe that God would not bring me this far to leave me and I know he will guide the doctor’s hands and heal me,” Dawn had said before she left for the Twin Island Republic.
Having a positive mind-set is the key to Dawn’s recovery and seeing her children again is a huge inspiration. Her ‘church family’ at the Church of the Nazarene in Meadow Brook, including her Pastor, Rajkumar Outar, has been a tower of strength in her time of need and she thanked all those who have helped her to make the surgery possible
Dawn was going to Cuba to do the surgery (which cannot be done in Guyana) but Trinidad and Dr Ramcharran were recommended by Guyanese cricket commentator and journalist, Sean Devers.
Devers, who will celebrate the first anniversary of his brain surgery (performed by Dr Ramcharran) on Wednesday, developed brain cancer but the cancer cells were killed by radiation at the Brian Lara Cancer treatment centre in Trinidad and the former National cricketer is now in remission.
Devers, who is scheduled to do his final MRI for the year this month assisted Dawn in her fundraising drive and hosted two TV programmes for Dawn.
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