Jan 20, 2019 at 12:18 pm

Fact: Cancer is expensive

Update posted by Anna Dijamco

We are not rich, we are not poor either. We don't have much, just enough. But when you're supporting a cancer patient, enough will not suffice, you need A LOT. Even popular health card cannot cover all your expenses. Keira only has one health card and we've exhausted it already in less than a month. How are we going to fund the other 2 years and 11 months of treatment? Thinking of where you're going to get huge amount of money severely adds to the emotional stress of accepting your child has a cancer. It's really exhausting. My husband diligently went on to seek help from the government; Barangay's office, Mayor's office, Congressman's office, and to other government offices that offer medical assistance. We don't expect they will give much but it doesn't matter, help is a help, no matter how small.

At first we don't want people to know Keira's condition, maybe because we are still in shock, in denial. Spreading the news means you have to talk about it over and over again, and it's difficult to answer people's questions when we ourselves don't have the answer to our's. We want to deal with it silently, but eventually, we realized it is spreading the news that will get us the help we mostly need. To date, we received overwhelming support in different forms and we are very much thankful. Even people who doesn't know our family personally extended their support to Keira. And we really hope that these help will continue and won't stop pouring until she becomes well and cancer free. I'm begging all of you who is reading this campaign to help us spread our cause and reach more and more people.

Below is her protocol costing (doctor's estimate is almost 400K PHP). This is the costing for medicine alone. We also have to consider payment for her doctor's professional fees, lab tests (doctor's estimate is almost 500K PHP), confinement, operating room fees and other hospital expense and unfortunate unexpected expense. Unexpected expense is related to her worst enemies during chemotherapy: Fever and infection.

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