If THIS sounds like a “thank you” card, it’s because it is.
For about three years now, I’ve been surviving on the kindness of friends and strangers, senators, and congressional representatives through their medical assistance they had appropriated through the national budget, and government and private agencies.
That means the list of benefactors to keep me alive continues to expand, the latest of whom are Secretary Martin Andanar of the Presidential Communications Operations Office and golfing enthusiasts calling themselves Team Kumpadres.
Led by team president Edwin Ganga, vice-president, lawyer George Dumawing and Art Bacoco, Team Kumpadres used their love for the sport in drawing support for a fund drive that netted P67,350. The fund support came just when I needed to pay hospital bills for a week-long confinement, the latest in a series to cope with the complications of diabetes-triggered kidney failure.
Among those I’m indebted to for the fund drive are Engr. Bert Talco, brother of the late Dr. Asela Talco-Casem and Chris Ismael, a son of my teacher at the Rizal Elementary School here.
To raise the amount, the golf club tapped the support of the General Manager Gerardo Verzosa of the Benguet Electric Cooperative, its board of directors led by president Rocky Aliping, Trymatrixs Electrical c/o Engr. Melchor Licobent, Fakawee c/o Joe Buhangin Mateo Batane, China Bank c/o Ed Catipon, BHM-Swanny Mangaoang, BIP-Engr. Bonnie dela Pena, BLC-Bernard Capuyan, Architect Marlon Barrientos, Roland Gundran, Fred Dacyon, Engr. Jefred Acop, Architect Joshua Ribaya, Ernie Pagar, Grick-Engr. Francis Calanio, Metro-Baguio, Baguio City Police Director Ramil Saculles, TRYST-c/o Engr. Nestor Pablo, Ruben Bugnosen, Engr. Jonathan Lacambra, Engr. Noel Diaz, Major Warren Dagupon, Cliffton Valencerina, Erickson Felipe, Engr. Emmanuel Diaz, CMV Enterprises, MG Lanting Security Specialist Agency, NC Lanting Security Specialist Agency, 7th Infantry Division- Phil. Army,Shanrila Hotel Group, Paul Diaz, Gen. Manny Obrera, Sizzling Plate c/o Carlos Anton, Baguio Country Club.
There are many other kind souls I am indebted to, some of them I just meet on the street, during which they clasp my hand to hand over cash to help me cope withthe costs of four times dialysis each week. They include people I hardly know but will remember for such gesture.
We are indebted, too, to the people of all walks who condoled with the family of Mary Grace Binay-an, secretary of Irisan Baranay here whom doctors tried to revive after she suffered a stroke in-between her dialysis schedule at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center.
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