A young boy named Pheaktra Pov was born with a small crevice-like crack on the top of his head. Phaektra, who’s only six years old, had been suffering from his unknown condition because it keeps on getting bigger and bigger by the week, the Daily Mail reports.
Doctors who initially noticed the crack were taken aback by the boy’s situation and just sent him home without any diagnosis or explanation. The crevice in the boy’s head kept on getting deeper and wider. It’s slowly covering his forehead up to the base of the skull.
Doctors in Cambodia have no clue what the boy was suffering from. Srey, Pheaktra’s mother, was seven months pregnant to him when doctors only noticed that something was wrong with her baby.
Srey, who’s 40 years old, and her family continue to hope that they would eventually find a cure, even though doctors are telling them that it may be too late.
Thorn Hong, the boy’s grandmother, would put Pheaktra lying on a cart wagon every weekend to the Angkor Wat temple in Seim Reap, Cambodia.
Hong, who’s 67 years old, said, “My daughter checked when she was three months pregnant if anything was wrong and the doctors said everything was fine. But at seven months they said there was a serious problem but it was too late to do anything.
“Pheaktra was born with a crack in his head and it’s getting bigger all the time. I can put my hand inside the middle, it is very big. Pheaktra’s father left before he was born so it’s just me and my daughter who take care of him.
“Doctors do not know what has caused this and they said there is nothing they can do. Until he was five years old it seemed like there was water inside his head and it was swelling and getting bigger.”
Local charities in Cambodia would donate and supply free medicine for the boy, which would be enough to prevent seizures. However, it didn’t have any effect on the head.
Hong said, “I get about $10 to $25 a week from people at the Angkor Wat temple when I go on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday.”
She added, “The children’s hospital give us some medicine but it is just to make Pheaktra feel better. We pray every day for somebody in the world that knows how to fix this.”
Pheaktra’s condition looked similar to a hydrocephalus, in which the head gets bigger due to water containment on the brain.
