Topic: Donations to Provide Funding for Biliary Atresia Surgery for Infant [SUCCESS] (Read 1090 times)

update on baby Ethan :

the crypto OG who initiated this effort has made some suggestions on dietary improvements for baby Ethan.

1. The starchy carbohydrates such as rice, potato, casava are actually making the liver fat. Much better to eat green Saba banana that has been boiled, as the green banana has more fiber and digests more slowly.

2. The low-fat milk and all the cows milk is not really that healthy. It will also cause fat on the liver. He probably needs some milk for the nutrients, but you can also sometime put fresh coconut milk mixed in his food, which will provide many of the healthy nutrients. Actually coconut milk is very healthy for the liver, because the medium-chain fatty acids detoxify the liver. Actually natural coconut is the most healthy fat Ethan can eat. Even more healthy than olive oil. Actually olive oil is not that healthy in my experience, it makes my liver more fat.

3. Green leafy vegetables actually remove fat from the liver and cure the liver. The more green leafy vegetables he eats, the more healthy he will be.


baby Ethan looks healthy now playing in this vid https://youtu.be/8rFIdsaPkiM

thanks to all who supported

A further update of baby Ethan's progress; now looking healthier and more animated - also starting to talk.

Link to video: https://imgur.com/a/YPe9aW2

"Tita" means "auntie".

Latest baby Ethan update. Now looking much better in the video linked to below.

https://imgur.com/a/rgxHtdG

Another relayed message:

"Thank you again to everyone who donated. You saved him from a life of misery and early death."

Further baby Ethan update, this time showing a forwarded pic of the other side of his diseased liver.



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These are not my words, I’m just passing it along…

Thx for the update, very glad I made part of helping out …

Best of luck

Hey, that's so cool! Thank you for taking the initiative to help them.

UPDATE.

A photo forwarded of baby Ethan's diseased liver:

Thanks for the update.
 That is amazing!  I had no idea a partial liver transplant could be done and apparently, the donor's liver will regrow and work normally in 6 to 8 weeks.

UPDATE:

Ethan received his liver transplant. They ended up using half of his mother's liver. They're both apparently doing well.

UPDATE :

Baby Ethan has arrived in India

https://youtu.be/vzcD43hTyOY

UPDATE :
 
They are in the plane on the way to India.

UPDATE :

Baby Ethan is scheduled to fly to India within approximately two weeks. Also Erwin Tulfo donated P1 million to the cause, but it’s not clear if this was exclusively for baby Ethan or for all infants in the Philippines affected by this ailment.

We will follow-up with results and evidence of the outcome for baby Ethan.

Update on baby Ethan from the Philippines:

[12:13 AM, 1/13/2022] Michelle Carpio: Nathan is ok now with continues medications. To maintain his health to make it ready for the operations. As what I have mentioned before, there are a couple of foundations that are collaborating to make his LT possible. And as of the moment, we are still waiting for the update of the Bil foundation to signal us on what to do next. With regards the initial funds that you provided it is still complete here. No need to worry about it because it is safe and will be used once we are ready to fly to India. Then, next in line is our Visa processing.

[12:13 AM, 1/13/2022] Michelle Carpio: That's my cousin's message

My reply:

Disappointing. Can you ask her for what they are doing to contact the foundation and to find out what the problem is?

[6:30 AM, 1/13/2022] Michelle Carpio: The mother of the baby said that foundation will be reopening this month that's what they are waiting .. and after that they will process the visa and what's the next step for them to do.

[6:37 AM, 1/13/2022] Michelle Carpio: They contacted it through messenger, they have group chat .. also the other foundation they're applying already approved and will ready to donate an amount of 500k in Apollo hospital in India.

Minor update: I was given screenshots of the recent ₱200,000 transfers:

Anon Bitcoin OG could snapshot this thread as local, static html version and save it somewhere for later display.
I'm glad it worked, what a fine community. For my part, i was thinking how much bitcoin did for me, so it was easy to give back a little.
Have a good time!

Hey, very happy to hear that. Now we just have to keep our fingers crossed that everything goes well. If anyone prays, please pray for the child.

Feels good to know that we made it, let's hope all ends well.

Thx for the update also best of luck, its out of our hands now.

GJ, hope the doctors can take it from here

We made it! Thanks to everyone who helped!

I updated the OP, but we ended up with around P624,000, which was more than the P500,000 requested. That excess $2,000 or so will be very useful to help with travel expenses and the various follow-up medical care. Also, I will continue to update this thread as I get more information.

I hope you made it

And again, nice to see how the BTC community roles ….

Glad I could help (of course I cannot do good for everyone on this ugly world) though I feel good knowing we helped this one out.
All the best @infofront cheers

So are we through, yet?

I am helping Bump this thread for visibility.

Bump

El Duderino's coins are being auctioned here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/auction-kialara-hydra-set-129-ends-today-at-2pm-est-5365147

Based on the bidding so far, I think this may push us to the finish line!

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/auction-kialara-hydra-set-129-ends-today-at-2pm-est-5365147

Hope this will bring some to the table

Cheers

Sent a small donation thru coins.ph (baby's aunt account). I have a baby boy as well and it breaks my heart seeing a baby with an illness. Im hoping for his fast recovery. I will donate again soon.

I have an update from the boy's aunt:


Also, the anonymous bitcoin OG recently sold another chunk of the BTC he was holding, for pesos, and transferred it to the family. We're now at 424,000 of the 500,000 needed. I'm going to get the ball rolling on the auction for El Duderino's donated coins as well.

Bump for visibility.

It would be nice if Infofront could give us an update. He is not very active on the forum lately but has logged in recently. I guess if he doesn't say anything, he has nothing relevant to comment on. Although I have seen that another transaction of 0.02955214 BTC was sent to the family, so in principle they have received the money they needed.

Let's hope the boy can recover.

I have two weeks left to get paid from the bitvest.io sig campaign I was in. I have sent him the equivalent of one week's payment. It is 0.0015 BTC. I know it's not much compared to some of you but I don't own large amounts of Bitcoin.

Keep us updated with how he evolves.

Bumping, and also, Infofront, could you please give us the total amount raised i pesos, it's a pain having to convert the euros to pesos and adding it all up to see the total.
It's kind of cluttered there in the beginning.

@infofront

Send me a pm if you need something….

Cheers

Perfect

Maybe send a pm to minerjones he’s willing to help

Cheers

Wow, thanks! I'll try to get the ball rolling on that

Sent

Hope it can help

@Infofront, I wanna pledge these perfect condition Kialara hydra's containing a set, meaning 2 pieces both numbered 129 and no single pieces...

Infofront, I would suggest contacting minerjones or krogotmanhattan or MoparMiningLLC or Lesbiancow or someone in collectibles
I'm sure they will help making a thread and getting some traction for those fine pieces (which will contribute a good amount)
Auction or something.

You now i'm good for sending the pieces after the winner paid to your adress

Cheers and hope the goods deliver a nice amount of BTC and maybe a it more with these circumstances

OP updated to reflect new donations, and transaction fees, for full transparency.

Bump: More donations have come in. Totals in the OP have been updated.

Bump: Updated the donation amounts in the OP.

At current, but ever fluctuating, exchange rates we're getting close to 3/4 of the goal!

I am helping Bump this thread for visibility.

Bump

Send a bit to that address.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/9cac324a9541869c061c354071e2a071ca2d705b3e46078c4699664790fbc84c

I will send it again next time. I hope it can help.

BUMP

Added several items to the OP: transaction screenshots for proof that the pesos were sent, some recent pictures of baby Ethan, added a link to the new Go Get Funding Page, added a significant amount of information to the bottom of the OP (including the fact that a liver transplant will also be performed!), from the boys aunt, and added images of a couple medical reports

I'm happy to provide an update that the family has now received more than half of the needed money. Exact figures are in the OP. I will also be posting proof, and some more information, later today.

This thread seems to hibernate a little, according to the blockexplorer stats.
*BUMP*

OP updated, reflecting new donations, and amount transferred to the boy's family so far.

May God preserve this little life and guide the hands of the surgeons.

(confirmed before I could post. )

https://blockstream.info/tx/9d7887c4377330ef14c51f38946cea6f3fff0288dfbf4398eae44dfb2288d4d6

You're welcome InfoFront.

God bless you kid

No baby deserves suffering

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/46497b00a25620df92c87fd8b4cded825e828052e58de4632dfdc507d8ef16f7

Thanks for you donations ArrieMoller and iTradeChips! 

made a small donation thru a local payment processor as the baby is from my country. my prayers for the baby and their family

I spend so much of my profits on crap, this will at least, hopefully, do some good. 0.01 sent.

Thanks for being one of the first two donors! I've updated the total at the top. I'll also be donating some this weekend!

done. In the end, children (EDIT: and educating them) are the most precious investment into our future.

Answer from Anonymous Bitcoin OG:

I hope this works out well. Will the surgery make the baby healthy or are there other problems that might come up?

Anyway, Im new to BTC so no big profits in my pocket just yet. I will revisit this thread when/if BTC makes a huge run.

God bless.

Amount Needed: ₱500,000 (~US$10,500)

Amount Donated So Far: ₿0.24767643 + ₱27,000 + €100 - (€4 + ₱1389 fees)

Total Transferred to Family: ₱624,000 + €100 - (€4 + ₱1429 fees)



The father of this baby is the cousin of a girlfriend-fiance of an OG Bitcoiner who posted in this forum from 2013 to 2018. He has asked me to post this for him. He wrote this entire OP which I am merely posting. Empathy for the plight of the child takes precedence in my decision to post this. I have posted some pictures from the linked GoFundMe page at the bottom of this post.

Also, please see the old, unsuccessful GoGetFunding page: https://gogetfunding.com/help-me-survive-with-biliary-atresia/



Prognosis for the baby may not be good because he is already 11 months old, but it is better to try than to not. Imagine the pain that infant is in. We should at least try to help him.

Readers may track the donations to the Bitcoin address below on the linked block explorer. This OP will be updated occasionally. Any excess donations will compensate for exchange fees, any potential crash in the Bitcoin price before it can be cashed out,* for the parents’ miscellaneous expenses and for ongoing medical care of the baby when he returns from India.

Screen captures of the Coins.ph account they have created have been attached. The sister of the father is managing the Coins.ph account because she can fulfill the KYC requirements.

Parents have promised to provide a followup screen capture of their Coins.ph Bitcoin receiving address after their ID verification has completed. Parents have promised to provide follow-up proof that the funds were deployed for the surgery, including follow-up photos and documentary evidence. These will be posted to this thread at that time, probably in the edited OP also with a thread bump.

Please feel free to post to this thread about your donation if you wish to be acknowledged. God bless you.

Liaison** donation address:  ̶1̶D̶j̶c̶7̶9̶B̶b̶Y̶m̶1̶h̶K̶M̶W̶N̶b̶c̶a̶Y̶5̶A̶N̶3̶Z̶t̶c̶S̶J̶S̶5̶q̶v̶G̶   No more donations requested. Thank you

 (https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1Djc79BbYm1hKMWNbcaY5AN3ZtcSJS5qvG) Failed to find an applicable crowdfunding site that accepts ₿.

* Some posit a correction is incoming soon.

** The funds will be forwarded to the Coins.ph Bitcoin address of the parents in tranches to make sure they can cash it out without any hitches. Their new account is currently in the first day of 3 day ID verification process. Caution applied because the parents have no prior experience managing a Bitcoin address.

UPDATE: