It is not the first time we talked about someone with such dedication and love for children, because a year ago we talked about a woman who received at home to those babies and children who already had little chance of living. Today we do it again to explain the history of Mohamed Bzeek, a man who does the same: adopt those children with terminal illnesses and whose only alternative is to live his last days in a medical center.
He has been adopting children for two decades
As we read in the Los Angeles Times, Bzeek has been adopting children for almost two decades. At that time he has taken care of 10 children, who all died, some of them in their own arms.
His story has come to light because he has drawn attention that he is now taking care of another girl, a 6-year-old girl who has been with him since he was a baby and who is bedridden because of a strange disease that affects the brain. She is blind and deaf, suffers seizures almost daily, and has reached a point where she can barely move her legs and arms.
Bzeek takes care of her day and night with a single objective: make him feel that he is not alone. In words to that newspaper:
I know she can't hear and can't see, but still I always talk to her. I'm always taking her, playing with her, touching her ... She has feelings. It has a soul. It's a human.
There is no one like Bzeek
The Department of Children and Family Services of Los Angeles County has a large number of children who at some time have health problems and eventually require some kind of medical help, as they are relatively serious cases.
There are families willing to welcome some of these children to take care of them temporarily, but according to the coordinators of that service, there is no one like Bzeek, why only he says yes to children who are worse.
The alternative for these children, as we have mentioned, is to spend the last days, weeks or months in medical centers, where nurses take care of them. It is clear that they end up becoming a kind of mother for them, but it is also clear that on an emotional level it is not the same to be in a medical center, which being in a home, with someone who gets involved day and night; with a father
Such is his dedication and work, that last Christmas, even knowing that he was very busy with the girl, he was asked if he could take care of another child. Although he would have liked to say yes, he had to decline the offer.
Didn't start alone
We talked about him because he now lives at home with his daughter and a biological son who was born in 1997 with osteogenesis imperfecta (crystal bone disease) and dwarfism, but it all started with ** him and his partner Dawn ** , who had already adopted a child before meeting him.
Together they decided to continue with that work, and in 1989 they opened the doors of their house to a girl with a spinal disorder who died just two years later. The pain of his death was immense, but it did not take away the desire to continue doing so.
For years, they took care of a child with short bowel syndrome, who was admitted to the hospital 167 times in eight years. Also of a girl with a brain malformation who only lived eight days, and other children, one behind the other, to whom He has come to love as if they were his children.
I know they are sick. I know they will die. I do everything I can as a human being and leave the rest to God.
A few years ago his wife died. She had been sick, suffering from severe convulsions that left her very weak, and decided to stop leaving home. This caused a lot of tension in many ways between the two, and in 2013 they separated. A year later she died, and Bzeek is still excited when he talks about her.
His daughter lives thanks to him
Or so the doctors say. He spends the day going to and from hospitals, talking with doctors, with insurers and with whoever is necessary for his daughter to be well. The forecasts said that the girl should have died long ago, but doctors say that Thanks to the care you receive from your father, keep going.
He loves her, and his 19-year-old brother, Mohamed's biological son, too. For him he is his sister, as have the other children who have passed through his home to receive warmth and love. They say to have accepted death as part of life, something that helps them make the little joys of life seem much more important.
Speechless…
That's how I am, and that's why I don't want to say much for each and every one to draw your own conclusions. The work that he carries out, and that for years he shared with his wife, is really commendable, taking care of children that nobody wants to take care of for many reasons, and among them the pain of losing them.
I don't know if there are guardian angels, but yes i know he is one of them.
Photos | Los Angeles Times
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