Artsakh Soldier and Cancer Patient Mayis: “Thank God, I welcomed the
New Year with two legs”
Zaruhi Mejlumyan
16:38, January 9, 2015
Hetq readers will be pleased to know that 19 year-old Mayis
Geghamyan’smedical condition has taken a turn for the positive over
the New Year.
Geghamyan, who had been serving as a conscript soldier in Artsakh
until he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma that has metastasized into
his lungs, had his right leg amputated above the knee and was
receiving chemotherapy at the Nayri Medical Center in Yerevan.
Geghamyan’s physician Levon Badalyan now reports that after five
rounds of therapy a portion of the metastases in the young man’s lungs
have disappeared and that the others have shrunk considerably.
“We are hopeful that all the metastases will soon disappear.
Nevertheless, the treatment must continue and several chemotherapy
rounds are still needed, even after all the metastases have vanished,”
Dr. Badalyan told Hetq, noting that he as yet doesn’t see the need for
Mayis Geghamyan to be treated overseas given the positive results
achieved in Armenia.
This reporter also had a chance to talk to Mayis, who told me that he
was pleased to have welcomed the New Year with two legs.
“Mkrtich Ginosyan fashioned a prosthetic for me at the German
Prosthetics Lab in Yerevan. Thus, thank God, I welcomed the New Year
with two legs,” Mayis Geghamyan said. “So many kind-heartened people
have come to my aid. I can’t recite all their names. I thank them from
the bottom of my heart. When I get better, I will follow my dream and
enroll at the radio-physics faculty at Yerevan State University.”
I also spoke to Mayis’ mother Gayaneh, who said that the “Donate Life”
foundation has expressed a willingness to assist the young man if he
needs to continue his medical treatment overseas.
I also got in touch with Artzroun Hovhannisyan, press secretary at the
Armenian Ministry of Defense, who reaffirmed the ministry’s pledge to
assist the Geghamyan family while Mayis is undergoing chemotherapy.
The following accounts, in the name of Petros Geghamyan (Mayis’
father), have been opened at VTB-Armenia for those who wish to make
donations:
AMD-16004103765804
USD- 16004103765805
EUR- 16004103765806
RUR- 16004103765807