BY JASON CROSS
Staff reportercrossj@jamaicaobserver.com
Claudette Grant is near breaking point.
Her greatest wish, she confessed, is for her nine-year-old daughter, Hannahlisa Hall, to get over her illness and be well again.
In the last three years Hannahlisa has suffered four strokes, and the pain of seeing her daughter in this state has been made worse by the financial strain Grant faces to get medical treatment for her child.
“Every day my dream is for the sickness to just leave her and she come back normal,” Grant told the Jamaica Observer. “She was always happy. She would read and spell her words and try to do every little thing for herself before the strokes. Sometimes she would say she want to help mi fi wash and so on. Sometimes mi give her a little one something and she hold it with one hand, but the next one can't go nowhere.”
Nine-year-old Hannahlisa Hall,
who has suffered fou
r strokes in three years,
Little Hannahlisa's problems started in 2018 when she suffered a double stroke, a few years after being diagnosed with haemoglobin (Hb) SS sickle cell disease — the most common type of sickle cell disease, which occurs when a person inherits copies of the haemoglobin S gene from both parents.
The third stroke hit the child in 2019, and just last month she suffered the fourth.
“A God alone know how it painful at times. Sometimes mi waan cry, but sometimes it feel like mi cyan cry,” the distraught mother told the Sunday Observer.
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