‘Mom My Stomach Hurts! I Need A Doctor!’

7-year-old Aden was born with an Inguinal hernia. He loved playing with his friends but that often ended with him being teased and laughed at in the small community where he lives in Indonesia.

Aden recounted, “One day, we were playing. Afterward, we went swimming in a pond. When the kids saw me, they started laughing at me. They said, ‘What’s that big lump you have?’”

Aden said the lump also hurt when it got bigger.

As Aden widen his hands to the size of a baseball, he said, “I remember one day the lump got this big when I was running. It hurt when I pushed it back in. I asked my mom, ‘Why do I look different from other kids? Why do I have this big lump?’” 

Aden’s parents took him to the doctor to have it checked out.  

Aden’s mother said, “He said it might go away and to wait until Aden was 7 before doing surgery.”   

But the hernia did not disappear. 

Aden’s father explained, “I felt hopeless because I knew I would not be able to save enough money for his surgery.”

Then Operation Blessing met the family and paid for Aden to receive free surgery to repair the hernia.

Aden’s mother said, “I am so happy and have so much joy because Operation Blessing has helped my son.”

Now Aden says he can run and play without embarrassment and without pain.

Aden said, “Now I am already healed, and I can jump and run freely. I want to thank Operation Blessing. Thank you!”