Hi Everybody, I want to tell you a very sad story because I need some advices and some ideas to help this family.
First I have to tell you a little bit of my life....
I arrived in this country in Jan. 2001, alone without speaking spanish (I speak some other languages). I spent the first year in a resort where I could talk to everybody and learn spanish.
After that year, a poor Dominican family helped me so much to find an apartment close to their house, they cooked for me, inviting me all the time to their house, taught me spanish,....
They never asked me one peso, nothing, nothing nothing....
I still keep in touch with them but not too much because I live in Puerto Plata now.
This afternoon I was on the way to Luperon and I stopped in front of the house to say hello...and then....
The 9 year old little boy was on the floor, like an animal. He was watching television.
It seems that since last month he cannot move anymore. They went to some specialists in SD and Santiago. The mother could not tell me the name of this disease and I couldn't reak the writing of the doctors!!!! It seems it is something with the bones which has a very bad evolution.
They just told her not to spend more money, it seems that it is no more necessary!!! Could you imagine the reaction of those poor people.....
So, the first thing I plan to do is send them a doctor friend of mine to examine this boy and give me a real diagnostic. Once I have it I would like to contact some doctors abroad to see if something could be done.
Do you have some more ideas to help this family ? The mother is so desesperate and shows so much dignity!!!!! She is alone with 3 children (the father has a second wife and it seems he has to drink a lot because he feels so sad!!!), the boy is the youngest one. The mother cannot work anymore as the boy needs a constant presence day and night, so, no more money....
Does anybody know where I could buy or rent a used wheel chair, because this boy will get crazy laying all the time on the floor, seeing nothing from outside....(you know in the countryside the children are always playing outside...).
Also, if some of you have games, books (in Spanish better), or anything else to give an occupation to this boy this would be fantastic. He is so sad because he cannot go to school anymore.
If you have other ideas, they are welcome. Thank you very much for your help, this will be so important for them and also for me, this was such a shock, I feel so sad.....
First I have to tell you a little bit of my life....
I arrived in this country in Jan. 2001, alone without speaking spanish (I speak some other languages). I spent the first year in a resort where I could talk to everybody and learn spanish.
After that year, a poor Dominican family helped me so much to find an apartment close to their house, they cooked for me, inviting me all the time to their house, taught me spanish,....
They never asked me one peso, nothing, nothing nothing....
I still keep in touch with them but not too much because I live in Puerto Plata now.
This afternoon I was on the way to Luperon and I stopped in front of the house to say hello...and then....
The 9 year old little boy was on the floor, like an animal. He was watching television.
It seems that since last month he cannot move anymore. They went to some specialists in SD and Santiago. The mother could not tell me the name of this disease and I couldn't reak the writing of the doctors!!!! It seems it is something with the bones which has a very bad evolution.
They just told her not to spend more money, it seems that it is no more necessary!!! Could you imagine the reaction of those poor people.....
So, the first thing I plan to do is send them a doctor friend of mine to examine this boy and give me a real diagnostic. Once I have it I would like to contact some doctors abroad to see if something could be done.
Do you have some more ideas to help this family ? The mother is so desesperate and shows so much dignity!!!!! She is alone with 3 children (the father has a second wife and it seems he has to drink a lot because he feels so sad!!!), the boy is the youngest one. The mother cannot work anymore as the boy needs a constant presence day and night, so, no more money....
Does anybody know where I could buy or rent a used wheel chair, because this boy will get crazy laying all the time on the floor, seeing nothing from outside....(you know in the countryside the children are always playing outside...).
Also, if some of you have games, books (in Spanish better), or anything else to give an occupation to this boy this would be fantastic. He is so sad because he cannot go to school anymore.
If you have other ideas, they are welcome. Thank you very much for your help, this will be so important for them and also for me, this was such a shock, I feel so sad.....