NEW YORK — Hebert Sazo’s visit Thursday to Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow was not to receive yet another cancer treatment as he had for the past six years — it was to fill his soul and say goodbye to his doctors.
There all the medical personnel, in the midst of sobs, showered him with affection and gifts.
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart for how good you have been,” said Mr. Sazo, who is suffering from terminal cancer.
“It brings life to us every time he comes,” said Mitchell Espinoza, director of hospice. “It’s a light, so it’s sad in a certain way because we can’t cure him of his illness.”
And it is that since 2018, Sazo was treated in this medical center where everyone was betting on a cure, but fate put him on another path and this is confirmed by his hematologist.
“At the stage he is at, I don’t think he will exceed six months,” Sazo’s hematologist said.
But Sazo does not give up and with a smile on his skin, he sees the good side, even to what has no solution.
“I don’t attach much importance to death because they say that death is beautiful,” Sazo said. “So let’s not worry because we’re going to die, because it always comes to us and we always have to be happy and like nothing happens.”
And while God calls him to account, he gathers his things and counts the hours to return to Guatemala and reunite with his 92-year-old mother, his three grown children, and meet his five grandchildren.
On Thursday his youngest son saw him for the last time on the screen because on Friday he will have him again in person.
And since Sazo is already clear that science has not found a cure for his disease, he hopes that family and his love will be the remedy he needs.
2023-07-21 03:12:39
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