Last year, I wrote about June, our yaya's little boy who was suffering all kinds of sickness initially manifested in a distended stomach.
You can read about his case here.
![June]()
I took him to many doctors at Pasig General, Medical City and Cardinal Santos until he was finally under the care of my children's own doctor, head of pediatrics at Cardinal Santos.
June was diagnosed with malnutrition, worms, enlarged liver and spleen, TB, pneumonia and went through so many tests—X-ray, CT scan, ECG, all sorts of blood tests, was suspected of lymphoma—but doctors could not find any real case or cure.
This was June with a smaller stomach—two days after they drained him of 210 ml. of stomach fluid.
![Stomach is smaller]()
After many months of tests and a weeks of confinements, mounting bills, and friends who offered help (thank you Daphne, Candy, among others), his two doctors at Cardinal Santos wanted to do a bone marrow tap on him.
Frankly I was losing hope.
His mother, my yaya, was against it. She was convinced it was "kulam" and suspected her ex-husband who wanted revenge.
Having never had experienced "kulam" or witchcraft, I just couldn't believe it.
My friend, pathologist Dr. Quimbo visited a couple of times and even spoke to Yaya Weng about folk tales versus medicine.
But yaya couldn't be convinced. Finally Jeroen and I decided to pull him out of the hospital and take care of him at home.
This is June in the maids' kitchen. Okay, I find him cute. :)
![June in the kitchen]()
I don't know what happened then, maybe you prayed for him or kept him in your thoughts when I blogged him first, but one morning, June's stomach just shrank. I didn't see, because I'm not a morning person.
In the afternoon it would grow again.
This went on every morning, so I told Jeroen to check it out. True enough, he witnessed it. He said June's stomach looked normal.
I asked Yaya Weng to take a picture on her cell phone. That I saw and was dumbfounded. (Sorry I didn't get a copy.)
With that, I finally allowed her to take June back Samar where his lola can take care of him.
Last December, Yaya took off to visit June in the province and give thanksgiving because now he is apparently okay. I told Yaya Weng, don't forget to take a picture. I asked her if I could blog about it and she said yes.
Here's June with his grandma. I know he looks like a girl—that's because they have some belief about cutting his hair at a certain age.
![june]()
I promised to blog this for the readers who were asking about June and for Dr. Quimbo, who was dumbfounded when I told him it was "kulam", which Jeroen and I believe now because we witnessed it.
I'm happy to report that June is a normal, healthy boy.
Unfortunately Yaya wasn't able to take a picture of his short hair after June had his first haircut.
Just the same I want to thank all of you who prayed for him, and to Ana who ate okra when I asked her to.
You can read about his case here.
I took him to many doctors at Pasig General, Medical City and Cardinal Santos until he was finally under the care of my children's own doctor, head of pediatrics at Cardinal Santos.
June was diagnosed with malnutrition, worms, enlarged liver and spleen, TB, pneumonia and went through so many tests—X-ray, CT scan, ECG, all sorts of blood tests, was suspected of lymphoma—but doctors could not find any real case or cure.
This was June with a smaller stomach—two days after they drained him of 210 ml. of stomach fluid.
After many months of tests and a weeks of confinements, mounting bills, and friends who offered help (thank you Daphne, Candy, among others), his two doctors at Cardinal Santos wanted to do a bone marrow tap on him.
Frankly I was losing hope.
His mother, my yaya, was against it. She was convinced it was "kulam" and suspected her ex-husband who wanted revenge.
Having never had experienced "kulam" or witchcraft, I just couldn't believe it.
My friend, pathologist Dr. Quimbo visited a couple of times and even spoke to Yaya Weng about folk tales versus medicine.
But yaya couldn't be convinced. Finally Jeroen and I decided to pull him out of the hospital and take care of him at home.
This is June in the maids' kitchen. Okay, I find him cute. :)
I don't know what happened then, maybe you prayed for him or kept him in your thoughts when I blogged him first, but one morning, June's stomach just shrank. I didn't see, because I'm not a morning person.
In the afternoon it would grow again.
This went on every morning, so I told Jeroen to check it out. True enough, he witnessed it. He said June's stomach looked normal.
I asked Yaya Weng to take a picture on her cell phone. That I saw and was dumbfounded. (Sorry I didn't get a copy.)
With that, I finally allowed her to take June back Samar where his lola can take care of him.
Last December, Yaya took off to visit June in the province and give thanksgiving because now he is apparently okay. I told Yaya Weng, don't forget to take a picture. I asked her if I could blog about it and she said yes.
Here's June with his grandma. I know he looks like a girl—that's because they have some belief about cutting his hair at a certain age.
I promised to blog this for the readers who were asking about June and for Dr. Quimbo, who was dumbfounded when I told him it was "kulam", which Jeroen and I believe now because we witnessed it.
I'm happy to report that June is a normal, healthy boy.
Unfortunately Yaya wasn't able to take a picture of his short hair after June had his first haircut.
Just the same I want to thank all of you who prayed for him, and to Ana who ate okra when I asked her to.