This is Aia, a beautiful 27-year-old full of promise and radiating light wherever she goes. Those who know her describe her as a pure soul brimming with positive energy.
She was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in 2010, but she failed to get a good response from the (Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor), chemo drugs meant to treat her CML. Her family has been preparing her for a stem cell transplant but unfortunately, she developed antibodies against all her viable donors. Simply put, with these antibodies, the chances of Aia rejecting the donor stem cells is higher than high, leading to graft failure, and could be potentially fatal.
Unfortunately, her disease has accelerated to blast crisis this month, and she has been under hospital confinement ever since. Due to her state, she has been dependent on platelet and blood transfusions every other day; a single transfusion costs a very large sum of money. Her organs have been greatly affected and she is in constant excruciating pain due to the side effects of her current treatment. She has lost a lot of weight and her limbs are painfully thin (even though she may look pudgy because of the fluids). Right now, our goal is to get her out of blast crisis so her doctors can proceed to sorting out transplant issues as it still is the curative treatment for her condition.
Despite all these, Aia remains as the hopeful, kind and brave girl that she is. Having a positive outlook, she would always muster the energy to smile in spite of the pain. We her cousins love her greatly, and so we took the initiative to set up a campaign here at GoFundMe. Aia still has her whole life ahead of her. We are appealing to your compassion, kindness, and generosity to help Aia and her family. Hospitalization, transfusions and chemotherapy costs are currently on the top shelf of her needs. Unable to bear the sight of her pain, her mom Aimee at one point told her to surrender everything to the Lord if the suffering becomes too great. But Aia says she wants to fight.
And so we fight. For Aia.
Where does your money go?
All funds raised will be used to pay for Aia Teresa Louise Japitana's hospital expense. I will be withdrawing this into my St George Australia bank account and will be then wired to Aia's Dad's (Arnie Alvarez) BPI bank account 0016-1580-26 in the Philippines. I'll keep you all posted with the receipts and remittance fees.
She was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in 2010, but she failed to get a good response from the (Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor), chemo drugs meant to treat her CML. Her family has been preparing her for a stem cell transplant but unfortunately, she developed antibodies against all her viable donors. Simply put, with these antibodies, the chances of Aia rejecting the donor stem cells is higher than high, leading to graft failure, and could be potentially fatal.
Unfortunately, her disease has accelerated to blast crisis this month, and she has been under hospital confinement ever since. Due to her state, she has been dependent on platelet and blood transfusions every other day; a single transfusion costs a very large sum of money. Her organs have been greatly affected and she is in constant excruciating pain due to the side effects of her current treatment. She has lost a lot of weight and her limbs are painfully thin (even though she may look pudgy because of the fluids). Right now, our goal is to get her out of blast crisis so her doctors can proceed to sorting out transplant issues as it still is the curative treatment for her condition.
Despite all these, Aia remains as the hopeful, kind and brave girl that she is. Having a positive outlook, she would always muster the energy to smile in spite of the pain. We her cousins love her greatly, and so we took the initiative to set up a campaign here at GoFundMe. Aia still has her whole life ahead of her. We are appealing to your compassion, kindness, and generosity to help Aia and her family. Hospitalization, transfusions and chemotherapy costs are currently on the top shelf of her needs. Unable to bear the sight of her pain, her mom Aimee at one point told her to surrender everything to the Lord if the suffering becomes too great. But Aia says she wants to fight.
And so we fight. For Aia.
Where does your money go?
All funds raised will be used to pay for Aia Teresa Louise Japitana's hospital expense. I will be withdrawing this into my St George Australia bank account and will be then wired to Aia's Dad's (Arnie Alvarez) BPI bank account 0016-1580-26 in the Philippines. I'll keep you all posted with the receipts and remittance fees.
Fundraising team6
Victor Emmanuel Jr Estilo
Organizer
Ma. Estela Estilo
Team member
Emil Emmanuel Estilo
Team member
Ma Cristina Estilo Paccial
Team member
Laila Victoria
Team member