Help Zainab Beat Leukemia
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On the night of November 19, 2017, without any warning or a moment's notice, the Jafri family lost their light. At the age of 21, Ali Jafri had the highest of ambitions and the brightest of futures ahead of him. A joy for his friends and family, and a strong man of faith, Ali Jafri was bound to elevate those around him...until that fateful night. A car crash left him in a severe coma with minimal brain activity. A few days later, he succumbed to diffuse organ failure and was laid to rest. He was survived by his doting mother and father, Syed Jafri and Samina Jafri, and his younger siblings, Hasan and Zainab, who had never known a world without him.
As the long days passed, the Jafri family held strong and endured the storm bravely. Zainab, now a junior in high school, knew her Ali Bhai would want nothing more than to see his sister achieve her dreams and continue to be the ace student that she was. She continued to excel in her classes with eyes set on the best colleges in the nation, all the while placating her healing family.
In early June, just a few months after Ali’s passing, Zainab contracted the flu, except this was a flu like she had never had before. It lasted for days. Weeks. Zainab did not think much of it and continued to work towards excelling at her rigorous coursework. Her parents, however, decided it would be best to take her to the doctor. A day before she saw the doctor, Zainab became a finalist in a prestigious scholarship for her future college education.
At the doctor’s office, Zainab and her family were greeted with looks of concern. They were told that there were some serious abnormalities within the lab work and that they would need to go downtown for further check up. On an ambulance, Zainab was taken immediately to Texas Children’s Hospital.
There, she was taken to a very specialized ward, a ward for patients with leukemia. Zainab’s lab abnormalities were concerning for leukemia.
After a prolonged hospitalization that required lumbar punctures and bone marrow biopsies, Zainab was officially diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Thankfully, while being one of the forms of leukemia with the best long-term prognosis, it still carries a long treatment regimen and short-term complications.
With the devastating events of November 2017, and now this long and arduous battle with cancer, the Jafri family has had no room to think about the rigors of normal life. There hasn’t been much time to leave the hospital, let alone go to work. Zainab has been out of school for the past year, putting her dreams on hold. However, being the fighter and optimist that she is, Zainab sees this experience as one that has given her strength and inspiration. She is now an aspiring oncologist. Let’s do what we can to ease this wonderful family’s burden. The proceeds are directly funded to Zainab’s brother and father, Mohammad Jafri and Syed Jafri.
#resilientZainab
As the long days passed, the Jafri family held strong and endured the storm bravely. Zainab, now a junior in high school, knew her Ali Bhai would want nothing more than to see his sister achieve her dreams and continue to be the ace student that she was. She continued to excel in her classes with eyes set on the best colleges in the nation, all the while placating her healing family.
In early June, just a few months after Ali’s passing, Zainab contracted the flu, except this was a flu like she had never had before. It lasted for days. Weeks. Zainab did not think much of it and continued to work towards excelling at her rigorous coursework. Her parents, however, decided it would be best to take her to the doctor. A day before she saw the doctor, Zainab became a finalist in a prestigious scholarship for her future college education.
At the doctor’s office, Zainab and her family were greeted with looks of concern. They were told that there were some serious abnormalities within the lab work and that they would need to go downtown for further check up. On an ambulance, Zainab was taken immediately to Texas Children’s Hospital.
There, she was taken to a very specialized ward, a ward for patients with leukemia. Zainab’s lab abnormalities were concerning for leukemia.
After a prolonged hospitalization that required lumbar punctures and bone marrow biopsies, Zainab was officially diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Thankfully, while being one of the forms of leukemia with the best long-term prognosis, it still carries a long treatment regimen and short-term complications.
With the devastating events of November 2017, and now this long and arduous battle with cancer, the Jafri family has had no room to think about the rigors of normal life. There hasn’t been much time to leave the hospital, let alone go to work. Zainab has been out of school for the past year, putting her dreams on hold. However, being the fighter and optimist that she is, Zainab sees this experience as one that has given her strength and inspiration. She is now an aspiring oncologist. Let’s do what we can to ease this wonderful family’s burden. The proceeds are directly funded to Zainab’s brother and father, Mohammad Jafri and Syed Jafri.
#resilientZainab
Organizer and beneficiary
Maheen Q. Khan
Organizer
Houston, TX
Mohammad Jafri
Beneficiary
