"Zizou and the Resisting Heroes" .. A Jerusalem story that motivates cancer children to defeat the disease

Aseel soldier - occupied Jerusalem

"It is not difficult to be a hero ... each of us has what the championship requires, and all we have to do is face our challenges with faith, persistence, and hope, and rely on people who give us support and love." With these phrases, the Jerusalem mother issued a statement, Shreteh Dweik, her story for the children, who chose her the title "Zizo and the Resisting Heroes", celebrating its launch on World Cancer Day 12 days ago.

A story full of human meanings behind the issuance of this work, which embodies transforming the ordeal into a grant, pain to hope, and overcoming the trauma of the disease to open broad horizons for treatment, after Bayan, 29, discovered that the youngest of her three children had cancer.

About a year ago, when anxiety crept into the mother’s heart after a complaint about her young child repeatedly weighing pain in his right knee, he soon moved to his left knee, along with other pathological symptoms he suffered such as diarrhea and anorexia.

The mother conducted comprehensive examinations of her child, and after three days the doctor telephoned a statement and asked her to go immediately with her husband and child to the Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital as a result of the discovery of a sharp rise in the number of white blood cells, and in the hospital several doctors asked the same questions to her and her husband. Hours later, they told them to weigh in leukemia.

The tale language
Acceptance of the disease was not easy at first, and the medical trip that began in June last year gave the mother an opportunity to enter into the details of daily life in the Department of Cancer Therapy.

Among the notes that caught the attention of a statement is that the stories available for children in the department were written in Hebrew, some of which were translated into Russian, and during the treatment of children one of the Israeli therapists comes to read a story for the child and next to her is an Arab young woman who translates the content of the Palestinian children to the Palestinian children.

The mother - who started writing stories a year and a half ago - says that she noticed a large barrier between Palestinian and Hebrew children in the stories. "They don't get along with their events, and many stories come to mention the name of the disease and the nurse appears in her white dress that the children fear. These details bothered me." ".

Some of the treatments in the department knew that Bayan launched her own project, "Tota Touta Hakili El-Hedouta" in 2018, in addition to her hobby in writing thoughts, so she encouraged her to write a story or a thought in her own way.

The mother says: I returned from the hospital one day frustrated by a disease that weighs and feels guilty about its brothers Jamal and Hala, and I read a sad text that I wrote in the past, and its result was negative to me, so I decided to write a text that strengthens me and supports Yazan and his friends in the treatment so that their spirits rise, to see themselves drawn in a story that tells their feelings and resilience And valued those around them for their strength, patience and persistence.

From the womb of pain
The issuance of the "Zizo and Resistance Heroes" statement was feathered by the Egyptian painter Ali Al-Zaini, in addition to psychological support and endless support from her husband, family, and family, who were all recruited to support this ordeal, which they turned into a grant.

Bayan was not satisfied with writing a text that supports cancer children and strengthens them, but rather she strived to communicate with schools in order to urge children to buy this story, to gift it to a child with the disease after writing a supportive letter to him, she will accompany the story and distribute it to all children in hospitals, until it ran out three thousand copies printed From them so far.

On International Children's Cancer Day, Bayan released her story in the presence of the doctor supervising a treatment that weighs and a number of treatments that her child composed in the department, among them emotional treatment through the arts Yasmine Abu Samra, who told Al-Jazeera Net "Bayan and her husband and child formed by coming to the department adding quality and they managed to They set an example. "

"Through her story, Bayan was able to pass the child how to complete his life by having difficulties and pain by strengthening his own strengths and raising his awareness of his strengths and weaknesses and how his body interacts with his feelings and gives us reactions, and so we accompany the child with a therapeutic process and teach him how to start and complete his life in The presence of this pain. "