WATCH: This Is The Most Heartbreaking Maltese Video You’ll Watch Today
Nigel is a young Maltese boy who deseperately needs a heart transplant. In a video uploaded by Xarabank yesterday, the little boy calmly explains it all.
“One day I felt a lot of pain in my heart and I got palpitations. My mummy took me to hospital and they found out that my heart’s left ventricle had bloated.” The young boy will be spending between one and three years in London, where he’ll have to wait for a compatible heart to become available for transplant. He’s already had a pacemaker inserted to try and keep his current heart pumping at a steady pace, but he now needs a new heart altogether. After the eight-hour operation, Nigel would require six months to recover and for his heart to get used to its new body. In that time, his mother is going to try and find a job as a nurse to be able to sustain her family during their stay.
“Sometimes my heart hurts a lot, and that’s when I cry,” Nigel said. “It would be hurting me a lot, and I would also be asking ‘Why is it hurting me?’ But then, when it stops hurting me, I stop crying. I only cry because I get worried that something is going to happen to me, but then I fight it and I tell myself nothing’s going to happen because Jesus is taking care of me.”
“I only cry because I get worried that something is going to happen to me, but then I fight it and I tell myself nothing’s going to happen because Jesus is taking care of me”
Despite all the hardships he’s already had to go through and the tough couple of years ahead, Nigel sounds extremely calm and collected during the whole four minute interview. “I’m not scared, because I’m going to have a lot of people praying for me. My whole school is praying for me, everyone seems like they’re praying for me. I pray too, I’m even an altar boy.”
Nigel’s passion is football, and he prays to get better so that he can start playing again. “I would feel great happiness in my heart and I would start to cry with happiness, because being able to play football again is a big deal for me.”
When asked about how we would feel living with another person’s heart, Nigel answers as truthfully as possible, flashing a disarming smile. “I don’t know, because I’ve never experienced it.”
The video ends with Nigel being asked whether he considers himself a good-hearted person, to which the young boy has the sweetest and saddest answer ever. “I would say ‘yes’ and ‘no’. ‘Yes’ because I love helping people, and ‘no’ because it doesn’t seem to be working properly right now.”
The video was uploaded as part of Xarabank’s campaign for their fundraising marathon in aid of Puttinu Cares this Good Friday. Nigel’s story is only one of countless others that Puttinu Cares encounters, and many more children need your help and donations.
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