Nine-year-old Aedan Pio is an artist and has Chordoma, a rare type of bone cancer. Pio was supposed to proton beam therapy in Apollo Proton Cancer Centre in India but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been indefinitely postponed.
To make time at home productive, Pio has spent more time working on his original artworks and paintings. He sells his original work online and uses the money to help hospitals. He has a fond interest in outer-space, and astronomy because Pio wants to be an astronomer in the future.
He shares beautiful images of his interest in his numerous paintings. Pio has also done commission works and even painted passport holders for one of his followers.
Pio even gave one of his doctors and current director of Philippine General Hospital Dr. Gap Legaspi one of his artworks. Pio’s mother handles the his Instagram account and even shared that Dr. Gap Legaspi, is the only doctor in the Philippines who has successfully operated Pio’s tumor multiple times.
As Pio and his family, add COVID-19 to their list of concerns, they show selflessness with their encouragement of Pio’s artistic skills and good deeds to the hospitals of the country.
Photo Credit: Instagram/aedanpio