Mrs Woen said that assistance really let her family survive as it was poor. She has diabetes and hypertension
hypertension
Meaning: high blood pressure
Thai Translation: ความดันโลหิตสูง
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, her 60-year-old husband suffers side effects from pesticides he used in his small paddy field and their 15-year-old granddaughter was blind in one eye due to optic-nerve disease.
Her son is a patient at Ramathibodi. Mrs Woen said each bill had previously shocked her, including one for 70,000 baht.
As she once told hospital staff she could not afford it, officials of the Crown Property Bureau and the Princess Mother's Medical Volunteer Foundation contacted her and offered help and finally His Majesty the King accepted her son and granddaughter as royally sponsored patients.
"Without the help, I could not imagine how my son and granddaughter would live. Each bill is very expensive and I was always shocked. I do not know how to return the favours in this life. I am highly grateful. They've saved our life and let us be reborn," Mrs Woen said.
Groups of motorcycle owners in Surin also were raising donations for her son and will deliver them on Oct 25.
However, Mrs Woen said by phone late Tuesday that her son had difficulty breathing and a high fever. He has been rushed to Prasat Hospital.
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