A well-known journalist from Channel 13 worried after revealing the delicate family problem he faces after his son’s serious illness.
This is the sports journalist Christopher Rojaswho has been facing a difficult time for months after his two-year-old son was diagnosed with a disease called high-risk neuroblastoma.
The communicator was sincere with MONwhere he gave details of his son’s illness and the fight they are carrying out to raise money so that the minor can access a million-dollar surgery.
Channel 13 journalist asks for help to raise money for his son’s million-dollar treatment
“It’s very rare. In the United States there are about 800 cases annually. The treatment costs about $600,000,000 and must be paid in advance.“, revealed Christopher Rojas to the medium, revealing that they have been living in Europe for a year but that to carry out the treatment they must travel to the United States.
“It has been paid for in large part, but now we are going to Pennsylvania, United States on May 15 for a clinical trial to maintain it with some experimental remedies. There are four pills for two years, which somehow keep the disease under control,” she explained, revealing how he noticed his son’s illness.
“Everything started on April 6 of last year. Santino started with very diffuse symptoms: he didn’t eat, his stomach hurt and he couldn’t sit down. At one point he began to touch his padding and there came the parade through the clinic emergencies.”, recalled the journalist from Channel 13.
“Many doctors told us it was a virus, flu, they sent him home with paracetamol. But one day it was very obvious that something was wrong because Santino started vomiting a lot. They did an ultrasound and a 13 centimeter mass appeared on the body of a one year and four month old baby.. “My stomach was about to burst,” she said.
They gave him a bad diagnosis
“Eight months of hospitalization, chemotherapy and a diagnosis that at first was bad. They didn’t say it was a very common tumor, Wilms’ Tumor, but the chemotherapies had no effect. (…) they couldn’t send the tumor for a biopsy because wherever they punctured it would be muddy,” he explained. Christopher Rojas stating that after invasive chemotherapies, they managed to reduce it.
“There They were able to remove it and the biopsy showed high-risk neuroblastoma“, he said, stating that since the result he has mobilized to raise money in search of help for his son.
“You have to lose the fear of asking for help. I had never even ordered a chili and I had to go out and ask for money on TV: help me or my son will die. “You have to have the humility to ask for help and the pride to say that this disease is not going to beat me,” she reflected.
Hold a special raffle
“We have done everything. From bingos, raffles, garage sales and also the support of people and companies like Luksic. Channel 13 has behaved badly,” she said regarding his workplace and that of his wife.
“We estimate that we are missing about $100,000,000 between what we have left to pay and the trip to the United States (…) we need this last little push to help me end the nightmare“added the journalist, inviting people to participate in a raffle where they will raffle a piece of land in the south, seeking to raise the money they need for the treatment of their son Santino.
