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Nov 08, 2010 News
STANLEYTOWN, NEW AMSTERDAM – Fifteen-year old Trinemcon Tracey Martin of Lot 46 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam lost the battle against cancer on Thursday, last, at the New Amsterdam Hospital. The child was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma last year. This is an ailment that forms in the nerve tissues and is said to be one of the most common forms of childhood cancer.
Tracey first appeared in the Kaieteur News in June asking for help. Her aunt, Alexis Williams, of 1399 Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, had only known her for ten years and could not give a complete history. But according to her, she became involved in 2008 and had been accompanying the teen to all doctors’ appointments ever since.
According to her, the child received six cycles of chemotherapy between June 2009 and January this year, to no avail. Mrs. Williams said that a CT scan, done in February, showed the extensiveness of the mass and where it was situated. According to her, the doctors informed them there is nothing they could do because of the location of the tumour.
“They (doctors) decided that nothing more could be done for her. The doctor said surgery would be dangerous for her. I feel that because of the technicality they gave up on her. They said because of her clinical reports they would not recommend treatment overseas.”
According to the aunt, it was painful to watch her waste away and then die. Each day was a nightmare for the child.
The aunt related that she experienced numbness in the legs and severe pain in both the legs and abdomen.
“Where the tumour was, it was resting on the main blood vessel that carried the blood around the body. She could not lie on her back or sit for long periods. She was folded in half most of the time because that was the most comfortable position for her and that was how she ate, drank and everything.”
In May this year, Trinemcon Tracey Martin’s condition took another turn and she became incontinent. The girl’s 25-year-old sister Kerrenca Schultz related that from an early age all was not right with the child. Unlike other babies, Tracey began walking at age three. But prior to that she sustained an injury. “She fall when she was about six months old and hit her hip on them old-time iron bed and one of she legs like come out. Mummy take her to the doctor but they say they couldn’t do anything about it and it left just like that and so it knit back by itself. After it knit back she was not feeling pain. She legs was long and short and when she used to walk, she walk with a limp.”
The sister said at the age of two, the family discovered a lump on Tracey’s back – in the region where she sustained the blow during the said fall – and took her to the Georgetown Hospital. “The doctors say she was too small to move the lump. It left just like that and she wasn’t feeling any pain.”
The child never attended the nursery level but began her education at the New Amsterdam Primary School. “The kids used to beat her up a lot and by the foot used to affect her…the limp… and my mother asked for a transfer to the Overwinning Primary.”
School days for Tracey Martin were not a good experience on the whole.
“I used to ask my mother if is because we never used to get much to eat at home why Tracey does look like that and she say yes.”
As she got older, Tracey Martin’s troubles seemed to multiply. “In 2008 she start to cry out for pain in the tummy and we carry her to the Georgetown Hospital. They admit she and do x-rays, CT-scans. The doctor say the lump on her back is a tumour, and by it didn’t getting no space to grow, it spread out to the tummy.”
According to the sister, in March the child began complaining of weak legs and never walked again.
“We went out and when we coming home just at the head of the street she went down and couldn’t walk. She said the foot feels numb and we had to lift her.”
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