Happy New Year!

Happy 2017!

I am very glad to be back home for the holidays and to see Sharie in person and see how successful the operation was. Our dream of having her join us on the festive table during Noche Buena and Media Noche without the problem of eating and enjoying everything laid on the table finally came true.

Watch the second part video of her journey after the operation

The Alagang Kapatid Foundation through my good friend Jay went back to visit Sharie in the hospital after all the procedures had been successful. They were instrumental in facilitating to get PCSO and PCMC take her case and finally give her the quality of life she deserves.

Personally, I am very happy that the congenital anomaly Sharie had is now part of her past and she can thoroughly look forward to a better future. The same for her parents, especially her mother Ysabel whose been her rock in all of this and her siblings and dad can now move on with their life and ensure that the future of their only daughter/sister will be bright.

Apart from Alagang Kapatid and PCSO, I would like to thank all my friends and family who extended help in any form - in kind, prayers and cash and all the other government institutions, and offices that provided financial assistance to Ysabel to get medicines for Sharie. To my family - Tatay, Sr. Paz, Jessa, Tita Brenda and Arlene, Lala and Andrae for believing in what I believe can happen if we put our faith and trust in God.

It will take time before Sharie’s operation, and eating habits are fully recovered. Right now she’s eating in small portions and still has her peg in the stomach which I hope will soon be removed. Her teachers met her and are ready to welcome her back to school and let her catch up so she can complete her grade 2 with her classmates. In no time, her young mind will not remember all her problems before and look forward to all the play, food, and fun she will have without the problem of being teased or getting hurt. People will not see her different from the rest of the kids in school and in her neighborhood. She will enjoy being a child.

May Sharie's story be an inspiration to all of us that we can all be part of the good in humanity.

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