Special thanks to Dr. Joven Cuanang of Saint Luke’s Hospital for referring us to Dr. Joe Robles of Philippine Children’s Medical Hospital, Quezon Circle. Dr. Robles is now the official neurologist of Joylin P. Abendan. He has scheduled Joylin for free check-ups every three months.
Special thanks to Physical Therapist Richard So of the Philippine Rehabilitation Institute for conducting physical therapy on Joylin at my house and for training Joylin’s family members to do the same.
Special thanks to crystal therapist Riza P. Regis for regularly providing Coco Nectar for Joylin. She takes four tablespoons in the morning and four in the evening. Dr. Joe Robles has approved this.
Special thanks also to Gerard Paul Jalandoni Elvina for picking up the Coco Nectar bottles and delivering them to my house.
Special thanks to Kay Malilong-Isberto for driving all of us from my house to Philippine Children’s Medical Center and back on November 11, 2008.
Special thanks to Olive Hernandez, my former student in Creative Writing at De La Salle University, for conducting Reiki and Chios healing on Joylin on the MRT Cubao stairs. Olive now conducts these healing sessions with Joylin at my house at 2:00PM every Sunday.
We are all pleased to inform you that Joylin will no longer be found begging for alms on the MRT Cubao stairs or elsewhere.
Special thanks to Chi de Jesus for designing Joylin P. Abendan’s Thank-You Card for Donors.
This card is for every donor who graciously gives P5,000 or above; it serves as a receipt with my signature on the back. In addition, each of these donors receives an autographed complimentary copy of one of my volumes in the my series “The Collected Works of Tony Perez” produced by The Publishing House, University of Santo Tomas.
Special thanks to Dr. Mike Luy for giving Joylin a bottle of Saint Philomena’s oil and an accompanying prayer sheet.
An accounting for all donations will be posted here. If you’ve donated and you don’t see your name on the donor's list on the right, please send me an e-mail message at studioantenor@yahoo.com.
Lest it be said that I have done no contributions on my part, allow me to state that I cover all expenses for Joylin and her family members’ roundtrip public transportation (FXs, taxis, jeepneys, buses) for all medical and healing appointments, occasional meals and snacks, and all of her maintenance medication. My daughter-in-law Ivy Miranda has also included Cerelac and red headbands (we’ve bought five so far) in her regular grocery/shopping lists.
The Spirit Questors have three IMMEDIATE objectives, which is why we have decided to skip applications for assistance from such institutions as the PCSO (where, predictably, there is too much paperwork and the lines are horribly long):
1) to have an antiscoliosis brace fitted for Joylin by Dr. Jen Santos of Saint Luke’s Hospital and have an ortho construct it (they are adjustable and are to be worn only in the daytime and taken off at night, when Joylin is asleep);
2) to seek employment for Joylin’s 29-year-old brother (a Machine Shop vocational graduate of Don Bosco Tondo), since he is at present the family’s sole breadwinner and works as an irregular construction worker because he was laid off two years ago when the factory he was working in shut down; and
3) to temporarily improve the Abendans’ shanty in their squatter area, such as building a separate room for Joylin, reinforcing their roof and walls, and screening their doors and windows.
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