Baroof Worries in His Room Before Going to Surgery This Morning

March 1, 2010 by Ruth

I spent an hour with 12-year-old Baroof this morning right before he was scheduled to have his life-saving surgery.

He’s a really sweet boy from a village in the north of Iraq. He speaks a different dialect of Kurdish from the one I know, but despite the language barrier we were still able to understand each other some. He told me that he’s really missing his dad and his brother and sister who are just a little older than him. He seemed a nervous as he waited which is to be expected, and he was also very hungry from having to fast before the surgery.

He was very excited to be able to talk to his dad for a few minutes before I left him but from the tears in his eyes afterwards we could tell that he is really missing him.

Baroof was taken into surgery at 11:40 a.m. Istanbul time. We’ll keep you updated on Baroof as we hear more in the next few hours.

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Ruth Simpson is a Family Advocate for the Preemptive Love Coalition in Iraq and a certified physio-therapist. Ruth also hails from Ireland, though she's slowly losing her amazing accent amongst all the Americans. When not sharing her life with PLC's kids in Iraq, she's most often serving some other constituent group with her rehabilitative skills and compassion.

Baroof Worries in His Room Before Going to Surgery This Morning

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