Yitzy Birnbaum is not your average teenager.
Right before his Bar Mitzvah he was diagnosed with leukemia, and for the past three years, the once fun-loving and friendly boy has been fighting death with all the strength and courage that the young 16-year-old can possibly muster. These past few years have been extremely difficult for Yitzy’s parents as well, who mourn a childhood their son never had, a childhood that was stripped away from him at too young an age. But recently, the doctors gave them news which might change just about everything.
“The doctors said Yitzy can come home,” explains Mrs. Birnbaum with a newfound sense of hope in her eyes.
“But on a condition– If we buy the proper equipment and machinery at home needed to keep him alive.”
The family’s expenses have been astronomical over these past few years, and they have no resources left to help their young son fight cancer in the place he feels the most safe and loved in the whole world– At home.
“These past few years have been so hard on him,” continues Aviva with tears streaming down her face.
“A teenage boy shouldn’t be living in a hospital, staring at white walls and hearing nothing but endless beeping and children crying. He should be at home, with his family, where he will have nothing but love and support.”
Funds are being collected by Israeli organization Darchei Miriam to help Yitzy finally leave the hospital where he spent the past three years and go home where he belongs. According to his parents, not only do they think his health will improve at home– It may save his life.
“Please don’t let us let him down,” said Aviva.
“Please. He just wants to come home.”
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