“Bury Me In My Mummy’s Coffin” – Dying Boy Pleads To Be Laid To Rest With His Mum So She Can Look After Him In Heaven
Filip Kwansy, of Colchester, Essex, diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia – an accumulation of abnormal blood cells in the bone marrow.
Filip was diagnosed in September last year (PA Real Life)
Flip knows he is dying, the cancer has spread to his intestines and only receiving palliative care as chemotherapy failed. Because of this, he had one dying wish, he wants to be buried beside his mother which is in Poland.
Piotr Kwasny, Flip’s dad knows that time is running out and wants to fulfill his son’s burial wish and in desperate need to raise the estimated £6,500. Surprisingly, he has raised more than £22,000 that left him ecstatic and shocked.
A family friend said, “Piotr is overwhelmed, he can’t believe people care so much. He needs some time for it to sink in. He wants to thank everyone. He is ecstatic and shocked.”
Flip also sent a thank you to everyone who has donated from his bed saying, ”Thanks for helping make my wish come true.”
According to Piotr, “I don’t know how well he remembers his mother, as he was so young when she passed away, but he has visited her grave when he was well enough to speak to her.”
“He says that I’m his angel that is looking after him here and that his mom will look after him when he is in heaven,” he added.
Sadly, it would only be a father and son’s trip back to Poland where the stepmother and sibling will have to stay in the UK.
‘I will only be able to take Filip back to Poland myself. His stepmother and siblings will have to stay in the UK, as I do not have the means to arrange for passports and transportation to Poland for them all. This is just a very stressful and distressing time for all of us. I did not imagine that I would have to bury my child…you shouldn’t go before your child,” Piotr said.
Piotr, who has now remarried and has a two-year-old daughter and two step-children, recalls the tragic moment how his late wife died shortly after developing sarcoma.
He explained, “My wife had a large growth on her neck, I believe her lymph nodes, but we didn’t know what that was. She collapsed in the street one day and was taken to a hospital where they did an emergency operation to remove it which lasted for six hours.
She was diagnosed with sarcoma. The cancer spread throughout her body. She only weighed 20kg when we lost her.”
But a year later devastating news hit Piotr to the ground, Filip, then two was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1, a condition causing tumors to grow on the nerves.
Piotr recalls Filip’s health deteriorated before the diagnosis, there are spots on his face and body and doctors in Poland only gave rash cream before they came to UK.
Filip’s health condition recovered but only for a while, his health took a downward turn in September last year and was diagnosed with juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML).
His dad said, “He started having nose bleeds and his legs were hurting. I took him to the doctor here and they said that there’s nothing wrong with him and that perhaps he is tired. I insisted that they need to do some more tests, because he was already diagnosed with type 1 and I knew there was something wrong. I think all parents know when there’s something wrong with their child. They ordered more blood tests and discovered that he was suffering from severe anaemia and juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML).”
Filip had chemotherapy in hospital in Cambridge in September and November last year, but it did not work. Even the stronger chemotherapy and stem cell transplants failed and then the doctors give the heart-breaking news – “that there was nothing that they can do apart from mange his pain.”
Nothing has improved his condition.
His liver had stopped working so he also receiving plasma every other day. His abdomen has collected a lot of fluid and is enlarge, which causes him lots of pain and pushes up on his lungs, so he has difficulty breathing. He cannot eat as he throws up. He is either drowsy or screaming in pain. It’s heart-breaking for me to watch. He knows that he is dying and that there’s nothing they can do for him. He knows that he doesn’t have much time left, we both do,” devastated Piotr said.
Adding more burden to the Kwasny family, the father Piotr is himself ill with spina bifida (a gap in his spine), one kidney, diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure), he cannot work and has not got the funds to pay for it himself.
Courtesy : .wereblog
