photo: Álvaro Ortiz/Washington hispanic

Maribel Pérez suffers a fibrosis quística of lung and must be produced. In the photo with a portrait with his two children. photo: Álvaro Ortiz/Washington Hispanic.

Consuelo Medina
Washington Hispanic

photo: Álvaro Ortiz/Washington hispanic

Due to a fibrosis quística pulmonary, Maribel Pérez-Vargas must breathe across a mechanical fan. Given his delicate state of health, the only solution would be one transplant of lung, but the doctors still do not decide if this Peruvian mother of two children can support an intervention of this magnitude.

To report and to look at the face of the Peruvian Maribel Pérez-Vargas (35 years) full of hopes and desire of living. His vitality contrasts with the reality through that he lives. She is interned in Speciality Hospitals of Washington DC and breathes thanks to a mechanical fan. Maribel needs one transplant of lung or his life expectancy diminishes to 10 months. Maribel suffers from Fibrosis Quística Pulmonar, detected in 2006, and from this date it fights to be produced.
The face of Maribel, who has two 9 and 11-year-old children, is illuminated when he mentions that it has a new hope to live. And the fact is that when once again they said to him that for reasons linked to the bad state of his lungs it was not suitable for transplante, the doctor Mark Gladwin, of the University of Pittsburgh and an eminence on the subject of transplante of lung, he made sure that they will be ready to do the second evaluation to him to determine if she is or not a candidate for the transplante.

$ 80 thousand dollars needs Maribel to cover the copayments of his transplant of lung.

This news filled with hopes the heart of Maribel, who practises a daily hour of exercises in a stationary bicycle in his room. Nevertheless, weigh that it has medical insurance of Kaiser Permanente, who wins in September, 2010, this one does not cover 100 % of the expenses of the transplante is carried out. She needs US$ 80 thousand to cover the copayments.
The vivacious Maribel voice breaks when he thinks about his children and his husband. It breaks because he makes sure that the fortitude that it has will finish him if they decide not to operate on it. In this case, with tears in the eyes, he says: "if this moment comes, I am not going to be able to give consolation to my children. I am going to need my mother and prefer to return to my Peru. The last thing that I lose the hope is”, it finished recovering his smile again.

LINE OF HELP: Campaign in favor of Maribel
Fernando Quirós, Consul general of Peru in Washington DC, announced that it has working along with other institutions and the community movement “Friends of Maribel”, to throw a campaign that manages to collect $ 80 thousand. The campaign will be in written and television means.

For any help to visit the web page: www.savemaribel.com

photo: Álvaro Ortiz/Washington hispanic

The father José Eugenio Hoyos explains to the general consul of Peru in Washington, Fernando Quirós, the details of the campaign of community solidarity with Maribel Pérez-Vargas.

Consuelo Medina
Washington Hispanic

The struggle of the Peruvian Maribel Pérez-Vargas (35 years) – the one who breathes thanks to a mechanical fan – does not stop. Maribel suffers from Fibrosis Quística Pulmonar from 2006 and needs with supreme urgency the help of the whole community to fight this illness.
Although Maribel has insurance of Kaiser Permanente (that expires in September, 2010), she needs money to cover collateral some that cause his illness and that add US$ 80 thousand. This patient of Peruvian nationality, who needs transplants of lung, it fights every day to obtain the operation that would save the life. Otherwise, his life time diminishes to approximately 10 months.
In this context, the community movement “Friends of Maribel” along with Fernando Quirós, Consul general of Peru in Washington DC, and MAPAVI – directed by the father José Eugenio Hoyos - works to help it.
A way for solidarizarse with Maribel is to send letters to Kaiser Permanente being grateful to him for the dealing that till now has giving to him, requesting him that it renews his insurance policy that he conquers in 2010 and to urge the insurer that they do not deny to him the opportunity to do a last evaluation to him so that the doctor Mark Gladwin – of the University of Pittsburg - an expert in cancer of lung, could determine if she is or not a candidate for the intervention.
Also, MAPAVI opened a bank account (N0 0954382064) in Chevy Chase Bank where they all can donate money. The account is addressed to MAPAVI-Maribel Pérez. If they want to send checks they can do it by mail to MAPAVI-Maribel Pérez, P.O. Box 8523 Falls Church. 22041 GOES.
Maribel, who is interned in Speciality Hospitals of Washington DC, needs the help of all to keep on living and to extract forward his two 9 and 11-year-old small children. The last thing that she loses the hope.