In my prior entry, $3 for Daniel, I pointed you to a blog post by Niko who is a friend of Baby Daniel's mother. I found a letter she posted in our HS alumni forum and here it is:

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

My name is Ma. Clarisa Arevalo Samson. I am a mother of two, named Gwyneth Ann and George Daniel. For the meantime, we are living in my parent’s house located at Blk 8 Lot 43,Barangay San Rafael 1, San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan,Philippines.

I wrote to you this letter to ask for financial help for our baby George Daniel. My son Daniel was born with a life threatening disease called “Biliary Atresia”. It is a congenital condition characterized by the absence or closure of the bile ducts that drain bile from the liver. Biliary Atresia is a progressive inflammatory process that begins very soon after birth. In Daniel’s case, he was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia when he was already 2 months old. During that time, there was already a significant amount of damage to his liver. White blood cells invaded the ducts, which became damaged or closed completely. Bile was trapped inside the liver and rapidly caused liver cirrhosis.

An operation called “Kasai Method” was done on Daniel by Surgeons Dra. Minas, Dr. Baluga and Dr. Miguel at the UST Hospital last June 10, 2009. It is an operation that removes the damaged biliary ducts outside the liver. Then, the small intestine is directly attached to the liver at the spot where bile is found or expected to drain. This procedure is not a cure but rather a temporary solution to be able to give Daniel some more time to find the necessary funding for his operation and the matching liver type. Unfortunately, although the operation was done, his liver continued to fail. Our doctors told us that there is no other course but to have a liver transplant.

Unfortunately, liver transplant is not yet available locally but it can be done in Taiwan for P3 million pesos. This amount is simply beyond the means of our family. If my son will not be able to have a liver transplant soon, he will die. All we want is to see our son live that’s why we are appealing to your charity and compassion.

Donations can be deposited to:

Bank of the Philippine Islands branch under the account name Ma. Clarisa A. Samson, S.A. No. 3536 0445 53. Every peso counts. Or you could visit Sis Leony's Blog : http://www.nikoganda.blogspot.com/
I beg you, please help us.

Thank you for your time in reading my letter and we are hoping for your kind help.
God Bless,

Ma. Clarisa Samson

Tel. Nos.: (+632) 393-0043, cellphone +63929-4984092, email mcba_clover0114@yahoo.com

Matthew 5 : 7-8 ‘Blessed are the merciful,for they will be shown mercy, Blessed are the Pure of heart, for they shall see God’
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Let us help.

Helping a fellow blogger, niko, spread $3 for Daniel project. Daniel's 5 months old baby who needs to undergo a liver transplant. Please extend your $3 for his costly operation. Read more here: $3 for Daniel

I am back but not totally. It feels not a little bit bad that I am days behind as far as updating blogs is concerned.

Been tied up with work catching up with dates and stuff and at the same time, have to work on my high school alumni website (http://www.asmsi.org.ph). I broke the old forum (phpbb2.x) so I have to work double time and work overnight to get phpbb3.x working. Still facing issues but now, folks started to enjoy the forum again…

And yet another personal work - in my own little way, put up another site (http://pinoy4noynoy.com) which aims to gather Filipinos who will support Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" C. Aquino III for 2010 Philippine Presidential Election. The site isn’t done really, I am looking at more pages to be added so when I have time again, I will be back and it should be all done in less than a month so it is useful for the campaign, otherwise it won’t be of any help.

What else do I have to confess here… ok, here's another one, been working with a freelance project – basically an enhancement to an existing one; adding data to its xml-based database then tweaking much of how the pages was done so it is easy to maintain. Unfortunately, I have to cancel the project because the project owner (later on I find out working as middle man) was hard to work with. With so many demands and yet not considering that I am almost doing everything from start! Worst, I am only to make $200, where in fact, I could have earned more than $700 out of that project. I cancelled it and cancelled from escrow ($150) and even refunded $50 that was already in my account.

I will be fully back soon so still, don’t forget this blog. It still exists! J