Fighting For Maikol Garcia

My name is Maikol Garcia, I am 8 years old and I am fighting a battle against cancer, for my life. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor located in my brain stem.  I am trying to cope with this illness with everything in me, and that is why the battle I am trying to win keeps getting harder and harder. I have been in the hospital 4 months but I have only continuously gotten worse. Every day I put in my hardest effort to cooperate and continue fighting, but that just isn't enough. Because of the lack of technology in the hospitals, they do not provide me with the proper equipment/medicine for me to recover, therefore I just become even more ill than I already am. My body is changing very quickly. The pictures I have posted are from before I became so profoundly ill. My eye was the first to fail me. I wasn't able to open my eyelid any longer nor have the strength to either, so I got used to just using one eye. After one of my surgeries the doctors mentioned that they touched a part of my brain that they weren't supposed to and I realized that I could no longer use my left arm and left leg. I was unable to make my body respond how it normally did. This made me very depressed, and I always cried from all the pain I went through in the hospital. A couple of days ago, I had a seizure that lasted 30 minutes because the doctors did not attend me. After that seizure, all I remember was not being able to hear anything or speak. It has been like that ever since. I try to communicate with them but all the effort that I put just hurts me. All my life I have been the most active kid in my family. Always making jokes, always playing around and laughing. These past 4 months I don't even remember the last time I smiled because of how depressed these four hospital walls have made me. Most of the time I can't even see my family. They are only allowed to visit me through a glass and just four days a week for a specific amount of time, and that hurts me because all that inspires me to keep on fighting is them. Last night was the worst night of my life. I had another seizure but this time it was the worst one. This seizure basically put me in a coma, to the point where I am living at this moment because of a machine. The doctors have given up on me because I didn't respond last night, but I am not surrendering from this battle because I am strong and I want to continue to live to see many other days, with my family by my side. I don't know what else to do and that is why I am begging you to help me gather enough money so I can receive the proper treatment that I need for my sickness so I can survive and rehabilitate. Thank you, and from the bottom of my little heart, god bless you.