(Kaieteur News) – “It is sad to watch her fighting for her life, brain fully alert.” These are the words of Demise Fleming, a 62-year-old mother, who is pleading with the citizens of Guyana to help save her 34-year-old daughter Tonya Toshanna Paul’s life. Paul is suffering from liver failure.

On Wednesday, in a live streamed video on Facebook, Fleming said that her daughter got ill around the latter part of February this year. They visited a private medical institution for treatment but the doctors there had given up on her. Since then, she has swollen to three times her normal size due to the buildup of fluid.

She explained that, “The liver is damaged and spilling over the poisons to the rest of organs, but due to the love of God, she’s still alive, and from then to now, I took her to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, where we did a CT scan, which show cirrhosis on the edges of the liver.”