Update (Dec. 03, 2011): Thanks to all the good samaritans that pulled-in for funds to purchase the not locally-available elastic band to plug Frederick's esophageal hemorrhage he was now brought home by his father and resting in Ifugao.
Update: Frederick is scheduled for operation next week (WK47)
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When his second of five children was diagnosed for cerebral palsy shortly after birth, Famorca Bannog, a laborer from Banaue, Ifugao, knew there was nothing much he could do except to raise the kid the best he and his wife Shirley could.
Update: Frederick is scheduled for operation next week (WK47)
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When his second of five children was diagnosed for cerebral palsy shortly after birth, Famorca Bannog, a laborer from Banaue, Ifugao, knew there was nothing much he could do except to raise the kid the best he and his wife Shirley could.
That’s what the couple did, and Frederick grew within his limited givens, until he turned 14 this year. Until last September, three days after the kid’s grandmother, Emma, 59, was brought home by his dad from 26 days hospital confinement due to a stroke.
Frederick was himself rushed to the provincial hospital in Lagawe and, last Oct. 19, transferred to the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center. The signs were abdominal distension or sensation of elevated pressure on his stomach; and melena, referring to black feces, a sign of internal bleeding.
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The diagnosis was too complicated and devastating for the couple: esophageal varices or dilated veins in the lower esophagus that trigger bleeding; duodenitis or inflammation of the first section of the small intestine.
Doctors recommended ligation or tying off three blood vessels using an elastic material to stop bleeding.
Until last Thursday, the medical procedure was not done because of the prohibitive cost of the material estimated at P54,000 for the total process.
As his condition stabilized with regular medications, Frederick was released from hospital confinement last Thursday. He’s now resting in a relative’s home in Virac, Itogon, Benguet, waiting for his parents to raise the amount needed for the banding material to check the abdominal hemorrhage.
His family has been financial drained – first by the treatment of his grandmother and then by his own medical needs.
“Awan metten ti agpautang,” his father said last Friday, meaning he had no one to turn to for a loan. “No mabalin, isurat mo laengen ti kasasaad mi ken ti anak ko, ta barbareng adda tumulong kadagiti makabasa (If it’s all right, kindly write on our situation with my boy, hoping there will be help from some of those who will read it).”
Famorca and his wife Shirley left their four other kids with relatives in Bocos, Banaue, Ifugao, to be with their ailing boy. Mark Glenn, the eldest at 16, is in senior high school; Froilan, 12, and Lovely, 10, are both in the sixth grade, and Famorca Jr., 6, is in grade 1.
People who may be able to share any amount to plug the hemorrhage may ring up Famorca’s cellphone number: 09169956368.
As the father’s appeal was being written, the target amount for the cost of the elastic bands was whittled down to P53,000.
A woman employee at city hall who refused to be identified advised that the two P500 bills she earlier turned over to this writer be the starting fund for Frederick. – (SunStar / by Ramon Dacawi)
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