Boy with bleeding disorder seeks aid
By Santiago R. Alcantara
John Andrey Rull has been confined at Philippine General Hospital for more than a month now due to hemangioma.
John Andrey Rull has been confined at Philippine General Hospital for more than a month now due to hemangioma.
If it were up to her, Cecil Ramos would rather not have her 6-year-old daughter Charmen undergo chemotherapy to get rid of a brain tumor.
When Sabina Ailey Dayap was still inside her mother’s womb, an ultrasound showed that her head was abnormally big.
The whole time Aira Llorera, 9, was suffering from Langerhans Cell Histiocyctosis, it was her grandmother who took care of her after her mother, Levita, died of breast cancer in May 2005.
The parents of two-year-old Armand Gabriell Fulgencio, who was born with biliary atresia, may work in the country’s top banks but this does not mean that they have the P4.5 million needed for him to undergo a liver transplant.
Maria Linda Atutubo has set her sights on saving the remaining eye of her son John Andrei Atutubo after he lost the left one to retinoblastoma (eye cancer), an illness he was diagnosed with three years ago.
While coping with a rare disease affecting the blood vessels for the last seven years, Cheycel Joy Calosor continues to excel in her studies.
Thirteen-year-old Lovely Timajo, who has been suffering for the past three years from alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant tumor of the muscle-and breast, is in desperate need of help.
After four years of undergoing chemotherapy at the Philippine Children’s Medical Center due to acute lymphocytic leukemia, Eurich Ellema is looking forward to leading a normal life.
At age 5, Christian Villacorte knows only two words: water and mommy.
Margaux Chloe Llarenas’ mother admitted it was not easy raising P4.5 million for the liver transplant of their 1-year-old baby who was born with biliary atresia, a rare disease of the liver.
The profuse bleeding that happened during Arvie Nery’s second heart operation in 2008 traumatized him to the point where he also gave up fighting the congenital disease that has prevented him from living a normal life.
Angelito Magday’s parents are keeping their hopes up since he is on the last stages of treatment for acute lymphocytic leukemia.
