As families around the world prepare to celebrate Mother’s Day, one Trinidad and Tobago mother is fighting for more time with her children.
Forty-three-year-old Rohini Choutee, a mother of two daughters, has been diagnosed with Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma, an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After months of chemotherapy, doctors say her best chance at survival is now a stem cell transplant abroad, a procedure unavailable in Trinidad and Tobago.
In this News 19TT exclusive, we tell the story behind the diagnosis, the financial burden facing her family, and a mother’s determination to remain here for the children who mean everything to her.
Stay tuned for A mother’s fight for time: Rohini’s cancer battle, coming soon.