In this world, the greatest love that is beyond our comprehension and immeasurable are parents’ love towards their child. Even how ugly the child is but to the eyes of his or her parents, he or she could be the most beautiful child. They will do everything for the sake of their child. This reminds me of a story of a Little Princess that I met eleven years ago after I came back to Surigao del Sur after my Residency Training at National Children’s Hospital in Quezon City. 

                Mr. and Mrs. Jesnar Boquil were very excited to learn that Mrs. Lilian Boquil was pregnant for their first baby. She had her regular prenatal check-up at Barangay Health Station manned by licensed midwife. But she was deprived of a more sophisticated gadget such as Ultrasound that was nowhere to be found here in Tandag, Surigao del Sur. You have to travel first to Butuan City or Davao City just for a simple ultrasound because we don’t have Radiologist at that time.

                  At the day of delivery of their Little Princess, their excitement was dash off with ice cold and as if the whole world crumpled upon them when they saw their Little Princess. Their Little Princess had congenital anomaly known as Congenital Meningoencephalocoele. It suddenly became a talk of the town to have weird looking or monster-like baby. All of the hospital staffs from Doctors to Janitors told them to just accept the reality and anyway the child would not live that long because of her predicament. But despite of the negative feedbacks that they got, the parents especially the mother, Lilian, were really determined to have their child seen by a Specialist.