MASTER ANANTHU WANTS TO LIVE
This is not a story, but the true, hard, struggling life of a boy, Ananthu, who is 15 years old now.
Ananthu
He has successfully completed his high school education, and seeking the admission for Higher Secondary Learning in the coming June 2011.
Although his mother tongue is Malayalam, he is a fluent English speaker and a keen learner, all his teachers are satisfied with his achievements.
He has many friends. One of his hobbies is playing on his guitar.
Ananthu is like any other boy of his age in all aspects, except PHYSICAL GROWTH. He is only 139 cm heigh.
Ananthu with his friend, Achilles, they are the same age
Thankful to modern Medicine, he could grow more, only if the parents were rich enough to pay for his treatment. And here starts his miserable present and future.
When Ananthu was 4 years old, he was bed ridden with a fatal disease namedCRANIOPHARINGYOMA and was consulted by an expert team of Doctors in the famousSree Chithra Thurunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology,Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. This hospital is prestigieous in South India for advanced treatment.
His life was secured with a complicated major surgery, but resulted with the life long lost of his Pituitary Gland. It was obvious for the Medical science that he could not grow even an inch from inside.
He needed the costly Growth Hormone Treatment week after week and the parents could not afford it. They sold the precious landed properties they had for his cure but it was insufficient. The students, friends and many social workers made a campaign for him and collected considerable amount for him.
So he grew a little:
Ananthu is suffering from a lot of pchisical problems and mental strain resulted with his illness. Severe neck and shoulder pain and loss of vision are important among them. It is advised that if the costly Hormone treatment is not done at least in this age, then there is no use.
So the kind world can decide whether this young, brilliant boy should grow as an adult man or shrink as a dwarf. A massive friendly campaign can rejuvenate this unlucky boy.