An Australian couple flew overseas to celebrate their dream wedding with family… but then unimaginable tragedy struck
- Mother told son to ‘go ahead’ with wedding after heart attack
- Family says their combative mother hid health problems
An Australian couple are trying to raise money for surgery for a mother who suffered a heart attack at her son’s wedding.
Danline Faye Canutal and her groom Gian Biduare traveled from Australia to the Philippines to celebrate their wedding with family in 2022.
However, the festivities took a dramatic turn when Mr Biduare’s 59-year-old mother, Joy, started coughing and clenching her fists, 7News reported.
Despite the family’s protests, Joy tried to insist that her son and bride go through with the wedding.
“It’s okay, go ahead… it’s your wedding day,” she told them.
Eventually, her family convinced her to go to the hospital, where doctors told “Mama Joy” she was having a heart attack.
Joy was told that three different heart valves were damaged and that she would need an angioplasty to open her blocked arteries, a surgery that reportedly cost $25,000.
Mrs Faye Cunatal said financial constraints at the time prevented the mother from undergoing the operation.
Gian Biduare’s (left) (right) mother suffered a heart attack during her son’s wedding
‘Mama Joy’ is now facing serious complications after having to postpone costly life-saving surgeries
She continued to quietly battle her problems when the couple returned to NSW as newlyweds, despite the fact that her body was ‘giving up’.
Her family claims that her condition has deteriorated in recent years and she is in urgent need of surgery.
“Since then, Mama Joy has not been the same. We are slowly losing our cheerful and passionate mother,” Mrs. Faye Cunatal wrote in a GoFundMe.
“You can see in her eyes that she is really worried, even though she doesn’t tell us.”
The financial burden falls on the shoulders of Mr. Biduare as he is the eldest brother and is unable to get his brother’s support.
Joy is at risk of having another heart attack, with potentially fatal consequences, if she does not have an angiogram and possibly three stents placed in her heart.
The stents could cost $13,000 each.
Joy is a Filipina woman with health insurance, but her family says it only covers five to ten percent of the cost.
“I am begging your kind hearts to help us with Mama Joy’s much needed surgery,” said Mrs. Faye Cunatal.
