Ilham’s Story
In the Name of God most gracious most merciful
My name is Ilham Abed-Al Karim Beg. My story with cancer’s symptoms started in 1999. On the same day I went to see surgeon Dr. Aziz Mahmood Shukri, (who passed away) and he made me some tests, examinations and mammography. The results indicated that I had cancer and an urgent mammectomy was needed.
Although I was 49 years old and diabetic since 1984, I had the surgery on 12/5/99. The symptoms were insignificant itching on the left side of my left breast as light red crescent with high blood pressure.
Chemical therapy stage of 6 sittings had started with Dr. Isam Al-Rawi with an interval of 21 days. I had suffered severe pain and was almost under doctors’ monthly supervision. After 2 years and 4 months on having my first surgery, new symptoms of redness, pain and itching appeared on my right chest and I had to go through the same previous procedures of tissue examination and x-ray again. The results were just as the old ones (cancer hited me again). I couldn’t believe what was happening to me and I can’t put it into simple words---it was horrible, however, I had great faith in God and I had to accept my destiny to help me going all again the therapy trip but this time with the use of radiation. I had 21 sittings of hormone therapy and started to take 20 mg Tomoxifin tablets daily for 5 years.
Nevertheless, certain reasons forced me to go to Amman like security deterioration in my lovely country Iraq, lack of treatment, the death of my surgeon and the immigration of my Dr. Isam Al-Rawi.
In Amman I was under the supervision of consultant physician Dr. Mohammed Salama who switched my hormone therapy to 2.5 mg Laromacine daily which was too expensive for me ($190).
You all are familiar with Iraqi sufferings and specially financially speaking due to enormous lack of jobs or retirement salary and Iam in bad need of this medicine in addition to diabetes, hypertension and high eye pressure medicines----I am full of hope that you will give me a hand, care and some attention to help me getting ahead of my humanitarian crisis.
