When a Nose Bleed Becomes Life or Death

When Yael turned 11, he started having nose bleeds. Speaking with a clogged nose, he said, “I felt my ears getting hot. It made me feel sick to my stomach. I did not feel well at all.”  

Yael’s parents, Lidia and Deybid, took him to several specialists. The nose bleeds continued. His mother said, “Doctors couldn’t diagnose the problem, and we got scared.”   

The nose bleeds became more frequent. Yael’s dad recorded a video to show the doctors of his son bleeding onto the floor. Another day, his nose bled like a waterfall. His parents found him passed out in a pool of blood and rushed him to the hospital. 

Lidia recalled the event: “His body went rigid in the back seat. It looked like he stopped breathing. My husband screamed at him, and he finally responded.”  

Doctors discovered a large, non-cancerous mass inside Yael’s nose. Without surgery, doctors said he could bleed to death.   

Yael shared, “It scared me so much.” 

But his parents could not afford the expensive surgery to remove the tumor and stop the bleeding. Deybid told us, “As a dad I knew we couldn’t help him.”   

When Operation Blessing learned about this emergency situation, we paid for him to receive free surgery. The surgeons allowed us into the O.R. during the operation and eventually showed us the large mass they as they removed it.

Lidia exclaimed, “I’m very grateful to Operation Blessing and the people who donated to help us. You changed my son’s life.”  

For the first time in a long time, Yael’s life is back to normal. He told us, “Thank you very much to the people who helped me.”