Watch: ‘My Dad Gave Me One Of His Kidneys… If He Didn’t, I Wouldn’t Be Here Today’
A brilliant Maltese nine-year-old has opened up about his personal gratitude to his father who was instrumental in keeping him alive through his personal sacrifice.
”My dad he gave me one of his kidneys, if he didn’t… I wouldn’t have been here now,” little Henry said in a new interview.
Henry and his mother Lorinda sat down with Keith Demicoli on his new morning discussion show on TVM.
Lorinda opened up about Henry spending his childhood going in and out of hospital.
”I don’t know how many times I would be in bed when he was severely sick and would think to myself: ‘how I wish we were stuck in traffic…’ there are a lot of worse things.”
These past two years have been substantially better for the family after Henry spent most of his childhood recovering in hospitals after undergoing five surgeries and having his father donate one of his kidneys to him.
”I’m feeling more like a normal kid now,” Henry reiterates.
He couldn’t help but show his appreciation towards his parents and says how they always tried to give him a normal life: ”imagine a whole circle and only 20% of that circle is medicines, 80% is just normal kids stuff”.
Henry’s biggest dream is to move to Gozo as ”it’s a little bit more peaceful”.
”I want to open a cafe or a restaurant and wanna open Gozo’s very first aquarium, and I’ll name it the National Gozitan Aquarium.”
The youngster seems to be very self-aware and expresses himself in an impeccable mature manner which shocks Demicoli.
”You can really reason with him, and he has always been like that. He thinks a lot and asks a lot. Nothing is nothing… very curious,” Lorinda reveals.
They express their gratitude towards the Community Chest Fund which has always been there for the family and still is.
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