“’Will it be good to continue?’” That was the question Ailen Riquelme asked herself – the mother who walked from Valdivia to Santiago to ask for financial help for her eight-year-old son who suffers from an aggressive cancer and whose treatment costs 1.2 billion pesos – after being almost run over by a truck.
“A truck was going at high speed and (the driver) said he had not seen firefighters, but it is difficult not to see them, because they were with beacons, making sound. Thank goodness the truck dodged the firefighters and went to the side. We felt the impact. We thought they had hit the firefighters, but thank goodness they didn’t., the young woman said on the Unidosxmartin Instagram account.
The accident occurred on the Los Angeles, Salto el Laja route.
“Thank God nothing happened. It was a terrible, terrible thing. “We knew how to act well, because we ran, but it was very difficult (to decide) where to run, because the vehicles were coming from the other side of the road and the truck could run over us on the other side.”he assured.
Finally, Ailen remembered that “Martín’s father grabbed my hand and tried to hug me and direct me, because I was shocked. I looked back, screamed and ran, but I didn’t know where to run. “It was really very distressing.”.
Mother will continue fighting
As a result, he questioned whether or not to continue the great crusade, as Tomás Ross’s mother did, who walked 32 days from Chiloé to La Moneda and as other parents are doing, worried about the health of their children.
“What happened was too distressing. At the moment, really, it was crying and running, and saying ‘will it be good to continue?’” But, in the same account he clarified that “Although a phrase sounds repeated, with more force we say: nothing will stop us.”
“To be able to be with him for many more years and save his life, today we have to fight on the streets to collect donations,” he said.
Data to contribute: Ines Ailen Riquelme Banco Falabella Current account 19996250910 Rut 19.110.998-8 Email: [email protected]
