7-year-old girl loses battle to cancer as coronavirus restrictions limits family visits
By FoxIsHere
COVID-19 is continuously impacting our entire nation country and every areas of the community. Sadly, many innocent people are left to suffer – not just those directly falling ill to this nasty virus.
Those affected by Cancer are among those at high risk of falling ill to coronavirus infection because their immune systems are often not as strong due to their sickness and its treatments.
Unfortunately, many hospitals have been forced to restrict visitations on the wards of cancer patients. Sadly, this means those who need strength and support from the ones they love may not have the chance to see them often.
This was the painful case for Gillingham family. In the weeks leading up to the passing of their 7-year-old daughter Aliyanah, she was spending about five days a week in the hospital.
The family, of course, wanted to be as close as possible to their daughter – but under the circumstances, this was impossible.
Image source: Tammi Gillingham
“The last three weeks, only one of us was able to see here at a time,” Aliyanah’s dad, Chris, told News 5.
Sadly, their daughter passed away on March 28. When the doctors removed her from the ventilator, Chris and Tammi was by Aliyanah’s side – which meant a lot.
“The last weekend she was in the hospital we were actually able to both be there given the special circumstances,” Chris said.
Tammi also opened up about the final heartbreaking final minutes she spent with her precious daughter.
“She had told me, Mommy had done,” Tammi said.
“And her last words to me were ‘Mommy almost done.’ And she looked up to me and she waved at me and said, bye Mommy.”
Tammi and Chris Gillingham’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer last year – at first everyone thought that Aliyanah just had a stomach flu.
Image source: Tammi Gillingham
But when she got worse and was acting less and less like herself, her mother took her to the hospital. The parents got a shock when doctors came back after looking at X-rays.
“The neurologist came in and was like ‘we have to do the procedure now,’ so it was just like my husband and I even had time to think,” Tammi told News 5 in September 2019.
The young girl was expected to make a full recovery after the surgery, but unfortunately it did happen.
”This has been the hardest 2 weeks of my life but I know she is in heaven because of her faith in God and how she acknowledged him everyday she never missed a day of taking the lords supper even on her death bed she asked to take it , but I left the juice in my duffel bag in the car. So as she said bye bye mommy she began waving at something or someone giving them the thumbs up so I know she is in the arms of Jesus”, Tammi wrote on Facebook after her daughter passed away.
There is no worse pain than losing a child. Everyone please pray for the family and share this blog.
Featured image and facebook image credited to Tammi Gillingham
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