8-year-old succumbs to brain tumour

Tonight we regret to announce the death of a little girl News 5 featured in a story that aired in March. In that report eight-year-old Myra Carlita Yaxcal and her mother Isabella Ack, told viewers how the family was coping with Myra’s illness and the help they needed to provide the treatment she so desperately needed. According to Ack, the chemotherapy sessions were administered on time, but on one of those visits to Guatemala City, the family learned that the brain tumour had grown back and there was nothing doctors could do to save the child’s life. Ack says the family returned home and her daughter continued to receive care from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but three weeks ago the doctors confirmed that the little girl was gravely ill and that they had the choice of taking her home or leaving her hospitalised. Ack says they made the decision to have her daughter spend her last days at home. Shortly after six this morning Myra died with her mother and other family members at her side. This evening Ack spoke with News 5 about her daughter’s last moments and expressed thanks to all those who helped the family in their hour of need.

Isabella Ack, Mother

“I mind she nearly three weeks now. Me and she deh home, I take care of she, everything, but she stop eat three weeks now. She stop eat, dah just custard and oats, water, milk, that’s all she take for two weeks. After the two weeks gone already, two days now she noh eat, she noh want nothing, she can’t swallow water again, she can’t eat custard again. Two to three days now.”

“I asked for help from the people. Thanks to God, all the people help me, lot ah people help me. But thanks God, may God bless them, Radisson and all, they help me. May God bless them; give them strength. I pray for them cause they help me. They try their best to help me but nothing worked.”

Myra was a student at Queen Street Baptist School. On Tuesday, she will be buried following funeral services at the school’s church.