just after the diagonosis of thalassemia in Najaf, the way our relatives and all the people around reacted was very disappointing, they had the feeling that our and, especially of Najaf fate was crushed, i knew this was all stupid and i stood against it...........
within a week after diagonosis, everyone was pampering Najaf, having a very close look on her health and growth, giving stupid comments in front of her. and all this made Najaf very frustrated, inconfident, she became shy, her mischieves died........
whenever we say "blood, test, doctor" in front of her she started weeping, everytime she was telling her mother that she would not go to doctor. whenever she was put in front of doctor she started crying. all i want to say is that special care should be taken of children, if a child is brought up with such a mental state, will he fight against thalassemia as he is supposed to do?
![Huh? ???](http://www.thalassemiapatientsandfriends.com/Smileys/classic/huh.gif)
? i dont think so...
right from the beginning, the thing that made me the most worried was the psychological and psychosocial issues. and i thought it would be easier to fight against thalassemia than social and psychological problems especially in our environment..
now we have taken care of this issue and Najaf is doing well.........
Abbas