LD26021: Husband just passed away due to cancer, wife amputated leg due to diabetes complications

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Dong Thap - After 3 months of her husband's death due to cancer, Ms. Tran Thi Be Chinh seemed to collapse when she discovered that diabetes had entered a stage of severe complications.

Husband just passed away due to cancer, wife has diabetes complications

Located alone in the vast rice fields of hamlet 2, Tan My commune, Thanh Binh district, now Tan My hamlet, Thanh Binh commune, Dong Thap province, Mrs. Tran Thi Be Chinh's house becomes even more empty to the heart when illness and death are quietly covering every living space every day.

Once a warm home when his wife worked as a worker every day, his husband sold lottery tickets to raise 3 children to adulthood. Then disaster struck, tearing that simple happiness apart into scattered pieces.

Ba Tran Thi Be Chinh tai can nha o xa Thanh Binh, tinh Dong Thap. Anh: Lam Dien
Ms. Tran Thi Be Chinh at her house in Thanh Binh commune, Dong Thap province. Photo: Lam Dien

2 years ago, after many times feeling uncomfortable, during the examination, Mr. Pham Huu Nong (born in 1970) - Ms. Chinh's husband - received a thunderous news when the doctor announced: Having terminal colon cancer (K). Ms. Be Chinh put aside her job as a fish processing worker for export to take care of her husband.

Without much accumulation, to have money to take her husband to medical facilities for treatment with the faint hope of "if there is still water, there is still slaughter", she gritted her teeth and sold 6'cong' of rice land (1,000m2/cong), which is a pot of rice, but also the most precious asset of the family.

Ba Be Chinh nho con dua den ban tho nguoi chong mat do benh ung thu. Anh: Lam Dien
Mrs. Be Chinh asked her daughter to bring her to the altar of her husband who died of cancer. Photo: Lam Dien

However, after only 1 year and 8 months of going back and forth through treatment facilities, Mr. Nong passed away permanently. Without land to bury him, Ms. Chinh had to cremate her husband and then bring the ashes into the house to store.

Before she could recover from the pain and irreparable loss of a wife's life, disaster struck the thin shoulders of a woman about to enter the age of 50 (born in 1977).

Dung 3 thang sau khi tien chong ve the gioi ben kia, ba Chinh duoc bac si thong tin can benh tieu duong da buoc sang giai doan bien chung. Sau thoi gian thay co the khac thuong khi tay chan lien tuc xuat hien chung te va sung, nhuc… ba den cac co so y te tu nhan kham va duoc chan doan la benh xuong khop. Nhung cang tri, benh cang tro nang, ba duoc con dua den Benh vien Da khoa Dong Thap thi noi day cho biet, benh tieu duong da sang giai doan bien chung, can phau thuat cat bo chan.

Endless misfortune, suffering

In February 2025, Ms. Be Chinh was admitted to Dong Thap General Hospital in a state where her right foot had spreading infection to her calf. After being operated on by a doctor to amputate her limb (right calf), Ms. Chinh's health continued to worsen due to many factors, such as: septicemia...

Truoc dien bien nay, Benh vien Da khoa Dong Thap chuyen ba len Benh vien Cho Ray dieu tri tiep. Ngay 5.3.2025, Benh vien Cho Ray tien hanh cat cut 1/3 tren dui phai. Chi trong thoi gian ngan phai trai qua 2 ca phau thuat cat chan, la noi dau khung khiep ca ve the xac lan tinh than voi bat cu benh nhan nao. Nhung ba Be Chinh thi hon the nua, boi dang sau do la ca nui lo toan day ai ngai.

Hien ba Be Chinh chi co the di lai bang xe lan. Anh: Lam Dien
Currently, Ms. Be Chinh can only walk in a wheelchair. Photo: Lam Dien

Ms. Chinh has 3 children, the eldest son works as a worker in Ho Chi Minh City, the daughter has a husband working as a street vendor in rural markets. The youngest daughter is only 7 years old, living with her mother every day. When she is sick, she has to follow her on a truck carrying goods, making her often "worried in and out"...

More harshly, right at the time of surgery, her health insurance card expired. “When I received this information, I felt like the sky and earth collapsed, because having to pay 100% of the costs was too much for the family's ability,” Mr. Pham Hung - Ms. Chinh's eldest son - recalled.

Sau khi tam ung cong ty duoc 2 thang luong, anh Hung chay vay muon khap nguoi than roi lam don den lanh dao xa Tan My van dong nha hao tam ho tro them. Vua xoay xo duoc khoan tien, ba Be Chinh tiep tuc don hung tin moi: da thit tren lung xuat hien vet loet dai hon 1 tac. Lai phai tien hanh phau thuat cat, khau…

Can canh hinh anh gio con lai cua ba Be Chinh cung trong giai doan teo top do bien chung cua can benh tieu duong. Anh: Lam Dien
Close-up of the remaining leg of Mrs. Be Chinh also in the atrophy stage due to complications of diabetes. Photo: Lam Dien

Ba Be Chinh dang dieu tri tai nha trong tinh trang suc khoe dang lo ngai. Da hon 10 thang nhung vet cat chi van con tuom nuoc vang. Ngay ca viec tu ngoi day, ba cung can co su tro giup. Dac biet la viec di lai vo cung nguy hiem. Vi chi can mot va quet nho den ban chan con lai cung du de phat sinh nhung vet thuong nghiem trong keo dai trong rat nhieu ngay. Vi vay, buoc long anh Hung phai nghi han viec de o nha cham me. Du anh Hung no luc tim cach ban hang tren mang de bu dap nhung do ban cham me va dua ruoc em di hoc 2 buoi/ngay, nen thu nhap cung chi dao dong o muc 100.000 dong/ngay. Day cung la chi phi tron goi cho gia dinh 3 nguoi.

Va toi da phai rat co gang de khong bat len thanh tieng nac khi nhin ba Chinh ngoi xe lan thap huong cho chong voi cam xuc nghen ngao den tan nat. Nhung giot nuoc mat nhu kho can vi kho dau chong chat khong con du de chay ran rua nhung anh mat dau dau, cai than sac ru ruoi cua ba da noi len tat ca cam xuc cua nguoi dan ba dang o tan cung bat hanh.

Please send any help to Life Scene LD26021 to the Golden Heart Charity Fund - 51 Hang Bo, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi. Account number (STK) 113000000758 at Vietinbank Hoan Kiem Branch, Hanoi; STK: 0021000303088 - at Vietcombank Hanoi Branch; STK: 12410001122556 - at BIDV Hoan Kiem Branch.

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