I’ve never personally met Pei Lee, but let me tell you something about her that I happened to learn in the last 2 days.

You see, 28-year-old Pei Lee was diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis Type II when she was 12 years old, and over the years, her condition has progressed badly, and she is now deaf in both ears and blind in one eye. She had some limited education, and her last known job was selling kuih in the wet market.

Two weeks ago (in mid-June), the tumor in her cervical spine started to act up. She attempted to borrow her MRI scans and medical report from the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital but the attending doctor refused to allow her. According to Pei Lee, the doctor simply wrote her a letter instead.

Pei Lee wishes to consult a neurosurgeon at a private hospital because she had her spinal tumors removed at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital she is aware of the poor quality of health-care, especially those involving spinal surgeries. But the bad news is she couldn’t afford the consultation fees, screenings and treatments in a private hospital..

Pei Lee will need approximately *RM 60 per consultation and approximately *RM 1,000 for a spine MRI (amounts marked with an * will be determined and confirmed).

So how do we help Pei Lee?

At the moment, I have too much emotions going in my head, but here are some ways I think we could help her:

1. We could blog about Pei Lee and her condition and request for donations from the public – we could “fix” each donation at RM 5, and those RM 5 adds up very quickly!
2. We could sell links on our blogs – e.g. RM 20 or RM 30 per link for a month, etc., as suggested by Andrew @ BlogAsian

I know I have been asking for a lot of donations lately, and that you may NOT even want to read about it anymore. But think about it this way.. We may not feel the pain that she is feeling, and heck, we may not even know how she’s feeling at the moment. And I don’t want to give you the impression that Pelf is all out to drain her readers’ pockets. What I am asking from you is a little kindness and compassion, that all..

Go ahead and paste that little green (or yellow) badge on the right on your blog and link it to Pei Lee’s Healthcare category on Yvonne’s blog. God knows, you might change a young woman’s life..