Former pony boy battling cancer

REACHING OUT 

BAGUIO CITY -- Ramon Morales, a 57-year old former pony boy at the Wright Park, sidelined taxi driver due to cancer and father to three kids, is now clueless on how to pay for his fourth chemotherapy for colon cancer on April 20.

 He already underwent  three chemotherapy sessions costing P17,150 each and has three more to go against the disease. If it’s any blessing, his condition  was diagnosed to be at stage II, an indication that his chances at survival is good, provided he would undergo the six-chemotherapy protocol prepared by oncologists at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center.

Like any debilitating disease, however, cancer and the chemotherapy sessions one has to undergo suck out one’s ability to work.

“His wife could not work for they have a baby to take care of,” noted social officer Myrna Valencerina of the city social welfare and development office. referring their  to the couple’s  six- month old daughter  Rhamdesa was born just before the diagnosis.

Their two other kids, Rhane, 15, and Rhamdrex, six, are in senior high school and in the first grade.

Their neighbors, including punong barangay Ricardo Mendoza, have been trying to raise some funds  for Ramon. Last week, Mnedoza asked that Ramon’s case be reported in the media outlets, so people out there would know and be able to respond.

People who have some amount to spare may get in touch with punong barangay Mendoza  (C.P. number 09305778237) or  the patient (09474548221).

Samaritans may also visit the family at 21, Purok 2, Pucsusan,   Baguio City. – Ramon Dacawi