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I think this is the first time I’ve posted something like this on my blog.

I read Karen Cheng’s recent post this morning.

I clicked the links, read about Charmaine’s illness, and how much it would cost to send her to US for treatment.

Here are the facts that I garnered from her website (most of which I’ve copied directly so that I don’t get any of the facts wrong):

1. Charmaine Lim is four years old.
2. She has a rare form of cancer, neuroblastoma.
3. She is currently in the 4th stage and fighting hard.
4. She has undergone chemotherapy.
5. Charmaine’s doctor said that with treatment in Singapore, Charmaine has only 10% - 20% chance to live.
6. Charmaine’s doctor told Cynthia that a drug in New York will double up her chance of survival to 40% - 50%.
7. Unfortunately, the drug is not available in Singapore and is not yet approved in Singapore.
8. USD$350,000 would be required as the upfront deposit to bring Charmaine to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC), New York for the drug.

If you have a child in a similar situation, and there is even a slightest chance of survival, what wouldn’t you do to grasp that chance as tightly as possible? No mother would ever give up. And that’s what’s Charmaine’s mother is doing…fighting alongside her daughter.

I’m not asking you to donate if you don’t want to. But if you have a blog or any other means of letting people know, and you’re willing to spend a couple of minutes, do help to circulate the story.

If you want to donate, click HERE.

If you want to find out more about Charmaine, click HERE.

Skeptics and critics, refrain from making comments here as I will personally delete any negative comments. There’s nothing wrong with a mother doing all she can to fight for her child’s life. That’s what parents do.