Couple raise funds for child’s surgery

ON JUNE 8, two-year-old Miguel Alfonso Toquero was diagnosed with a tumour the size of a plum on the left side of his brain.

After weeks of experiencing, seizures, cold shivers and eye-twitching, Miguel’s mother, Arlene Toquero, noticed her son began to show muscle weakness in his right arm and leg.

“At first, the doctors thought it was epilepsy because we have a family history, but on June 1 I noticed he didn’t want to play using his right arm, and his leg was weak too. He looked like someone who had had a stroke,” she told The Brunei Times yesterday.