9 y/o travels from Honduras to receive care

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CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) — This Thursday, CBS3 volition contiguous our 12th yearly Ronald McDonald House Charities Telethon. We telephone it “Give a Little Love,” and we’ll beryllium raising wealth to assistance the 4 Ronald McDonald Houses successful the Philadelphia area.

The foundation helps children similar Elisabet who, similar thousands of children, travel to this portion to person top-notch aesculapian care.

Imagine having to question to a overseas country, a spot wherever customs are unfamiliar and languages are different, to get much-needed help.

Meet 9-year-old Elisabet Raudales, oregon arsenic she likes to beryllium called Ely.

“I creation regueton, I creation dembow and I creation punta,” Elisabet told CBS3 earlier showing disconnected immoderate of her awesome moves.

Like each 9-year-old girls, she lights up erstwhile she talks astir the creation battles she often has with her younger brother. The smiles continues arsenic she lists each of the caller friends she’s made astatine the Ronald McDonald house.

Elisabet, on with her parent and grandmother, person traveled much than 2,000 miles from Tegucigalpa, Honduras to the Ronald McDonald location successful Camden, New Jersey. That’s wherever they person been surviving portion Ely awaits her upcoming backmost surgery.

“It’s been a situation arsenic a parent and for our household due to the fact that of her condition, you person to beryllium attentive each azygous time due to the fact that she could easy fracture her bones astatine immoderate time,” parent Fanny Raudales said.

Elisabet was diagnosed with a terrible signifier of osteogenesis imperfecta, besides known arsenic brittle bony disease. Ely’s bones interruption oregon fracture easily. In her young life, doc visits person go a constant.

“It’s hard, due to the fact that erstwhile I bump into things it hurts and I person to spell to the doctor,” Elisabet said.

Despite her condition, Ely is simply a changeless root of affirmative energy, her grandma proudly said. She’s loves to creation and swim. She’s fluent successful some Spanish and English and presently learning however to talk Portuguese. Standing astatine lone 3 feet tall, determination is thing tiny astir Ely’s agleam and gigantic personality.

The Ronald McDonald House opened their doors to Ely and her household past year. She’s been traveling backmost and distant erstwhile she receives treatments and different aesculapian attraction that’s not accessible to her successful Honduras.

“My acquisition successful this location is beauteous due to the fact that successful this house, we person each that we need,” Elisabet said, adding, “Like food, the laundry to lavation the clothes, and we person a bed.”

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Our “Give a Little Love” telethon is this Thursday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. close present connected CBS3.