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SINGAPORE - When Caleb Lee was in Secondary 2 in 2018, he woke up one morning to jolts of pain in his thighs that were so excruciating that his mother had to take him to a polyclinic.
He was referred to KK Women s and Children s Hospital that same day, where he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a type of cancer.
The St Hilda s Secondary School student told The Straits Times: Everything went downhill so fast and I was warded immediately. When the doctor told my mother (the diagnosis), she came out of his office crying. I thought What did I do to deserve this? . I was also crestfallen because there was not much I could do to change my condition.
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While her peers were getting used to home-based learning during the circuit breaker last year, Chua Jia Xuan found herself coping with an additional burden.
The 17-year-old student from Damai Secondary School suffered a huge blow when her father, a cleaner at a school, died of cardiac arrest on April 30.
She was among the 23,688 candidates who collected their O-level exam results yesterday.
Jia Xuan, an only child who was very close to her 62-year-old father, told The New Paper: I felt very sad and lonely because my father supported me physically and emotionally. But I had to be strong for my mother because she was also having a hard time.