Ontlametse Phalatse (Progeria)

Bunyi tajuk pelik, tapi sebenarnya Ontlametse Phalatse ni seorang budak berumur 12 tahun. Kanak-Kanak berkulit hitam yang tinggal di Afrika Selatan. Hafiz ade ambik gambar die dekat Google.

Hafiz ade baca surat khabar, then, terjumpe pasal Ontlametse Phalatse. Sebenarnya dia menghidapi penyakit Progeria, penyakit yang menyebabkan sel genetik mati, then, die akan mempercepatkan proses penuanaan biarpun usia masih muda.

Hafiz ade terbaca yang Ontlametse ditinggalkan oleh ayahnya ketika masih kecil, Ontlametse kini tinggal dengan ibunya. Dia seperti kanak-kanak biasa, pergi ke sekolah, menghabiskan masa dirumah dengan menonton TV, tetapi sebelum ini dia sering menjadi bahan hinaan, hanya kerana tubuh badan Ontlametse yang kurus, dan kecil, dia sering dianggap menghidapi AIDS.

Beza saiz kasut kanak-kanak normal 12 tahun dengan saiz kasuk milik Ontlametse.

Hafiz baca artikel pasal Ontlametse dekat internet, rawatan susulan dengan laporan Ontlametse, doktor buat andaian yang Ontlametse mungkin akan hidup dalam setahun dua lagi, tapi bagi Hafiz, 'we never know'.

Sebab, penyakit Progeria ini nisbah untuk kanak-kanak dapat penyakit ni 1:8,000,000. Dan peratus untuk hidup lama ataupun normal sangat tipis, melainkan keajaiban berlaku. Hafiz ada bace dekat; msnbc.msn.com , Hafiz selitkan artikel & kata-kata Ontlametse Phalatse ;-

"Sometimes when my mommy has money, she buys lettuce and cucumbers and I help her do salad." 

Phalatse (Ontlametse's mother) is unemployed and the two survive on her daughter's government disability allowance.

At school, she has two friends in her class but says not all her classmates are kind, but it doesn't bother her.

"I don't care what people say about me," 

In her rundown brick home in the small town of Hebron about 50 miles north of Johannesburg, Ontlametse ditches the hat. She does her homework, reading, watches TV and has daily chores like washing her socks and cleaning her shoes. She can't play sports or even a game of hopscotch because physical exercise tires her out.

Asked what she would like to be, she breaks into a big grin that shows irregular teeth.

"I would like to be a psychologist," she says, "so that I can work on the problems of other people and so that they can accept the way that they are because they can see that I accept the way I am."