I AM currently here at the 6th YES Camp in Dumaguete or the Youth for Environment Summer (YES) Camp 2008 with my students, while, at home my family is facing a very difficult challenge.
I was already on my way to here when I received a message from my sister that they brought my mother to the hospital because she has a deep wound in her foot as a result of an infection from an ant bite. The wound cut deep into the area around her ankles that she can barely walk. We doubted that her wound had gone into such state due to diabetes but her laboratory results proved that her blood sugar level is normal. She was able to go back home after a day at the hospital.
The following day, I received a message from my niece, who is a nurse at the hospital where my mother was brought that my father was brought there, too, that morning because he had cardiac arrest. Later, I learned that his aneurysm was reason. Blood was already inside his brain an an operation can’t possibly be successful says the doctor. He was confined in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital until the doctor declared that my father’s is a hopeless case. He was transfered to a private room on the same day and is unconscious up to now. I and the rest of my family has decided to accept whatever is the God’s will. We are hoping that His miracle would save my father.
I have a thought at the back of my head that my father has been suffering for a very long period already and it might be God’s way of giving him rest. I love my father so much even if he was physically absent for almost half of my life. I know how he hard he worked for our big family that eventually led him to become paralyzed since I was in first year high school. But I cannot question the Lord’s plan for us.
I would like to thank those who helped me pray for my parents: my fellow bloggers who showed their support, my Ayala Young Leaders family, my Pathways to Higher Education family, and high school and college friends and acquaintances.
My relationship with my family has just been strengthened when we celebrated my mother’s 66th birthday last April 6. The challenges my family these days will strengthen our bond more as we pray together for the health of our parents.
God bless us.
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May 1st, 2008 @5:50 pm
hi ayel, when i received your text i already prayed that your father will recover…don’t lost HOPE! God will never leave you and and your family..
May 1st, 2008 @9:32 pm
awwwww…..Sir Ayel,*back rub* plus hug and prayer ang aking mao-offer…..
May 2nd, 2008 @9:32 am
ipagdarasal ko yan, sana gumaling father mo. hindi ako paladasal kaya baka pagbigyan ako ni Lord.
May 2nd, 2008 @11:47 am
Don’t worry. Life is full of possibilities as long as there is God. Just hold on to your faith that God will never allow His faithful servants to suffer and God has perfect plans despite the odds that we go through.
We’ll be praying for your parents’ health.
God bless.
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May 2nd, 2008 @1:34 pm
sad to hear the news. I will join to pray for ur parents especially for ur father’s recovery. God is watching us.
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May 3rd, 2008 @12:50 am
I know GOd Has a purpose why it is ought to happen.,It’s so sad because your supposed to enjoy your camp in Foundation University-Dumaguete but the unexpected happens.,But God will not allow someone close to you worse thing will happened.,I’ll pray for your father immediate recovery and GOD be with you all the time.,!!!
May 4th, 2008 @5:21 am
oh my.. Sorry to hear
that kua ayel. Count me
in praying for your parents
good health specially to
your father. God Bless you po.
May 4th, 2008 @11:09 am
I am praying for the recovery of your father. Everything happens for a reason.. all I can offer is a simple prayer for your dad and your family. God Bless
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May 4th, 2008 @11:24 am
nabasa ko yung abt your father sa blog ni tanom, he’s in good hands now.
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May 5th, 2008 @3:16 pm
*taps at the back*
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May 6th, 2008 @1:44 am
hope we can be there so we could share with your sorrows… condolence.. “every man dies, not every man really lives..” - William Wallace
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May 6th, 2008 @4:34 am
i haven’t read this the last time i left a message on your blog, thats why i left a question but now i do understand.
even i haven’t known you really nor had seen you and your family, i deeply sympathized with whats happening to you by now.
just don’t give up, in the end for sure, the Supreme Being really does have a great reason for this and it would be the best for all of us.
anyways i’m back now and will be just staying for a couple of days. i really do understand that when it comes to our families, we are willing to endure everything and is always dreaming for a brighter tomorrow with complete members.
let me share that i dont have a distinct family..a complete and happy one as what most of the people thinks. i grew up just with my older brother and our nannies because our parents had to work in cebu and abroad but we have to be molded on the traditions and strict values of our clan.
it was just the two of us, me and my older brother eventhough i still have 10 more siblings, who shares our life together. as i was growing i became aware that it was the two of them..no mama and papa..even we really do have. in their absences in our growing years…it made us unaware of their love and care for us. if they are at home, which rarely happens before, we could not show our affection to them. its just they are physically present but we don’t feel it at all…its like i don’t care at them at all as long as they will give me my needs…financially.
i always envy my friends and classmates who have had shared their sundays with their parents…especially during family days at school. i became melancholic and i hate it when my mother or father always asked me if how’s my school…hows my grade….and hows my life at all!
i assert much for what my personal philosophy is even it is wrong but at the end i went up to a point that my family especially my parents will always be my parents no matter. i may not be that close with them unlike other families’ youngest daughter does but i’m happy and contented that im trying my best to spend my days with them…because we really can not control time.
may the Gods always be with us…..NAMASTe
May 7th, 2008 @7:51 am
Maraming salamat po sa mga nakiisa sa amin. Salamat sa pag-aalala. Susuklian ng Diyos ang mabubuti ninyong puso. Magandang Araw.
May 9th, 2008 @2:45 am
My condolences to you and your family, aryel. I learned the news just now. Been very busy lately. Please be consoled by the fact that your father now watches over you beside his Maker.
Be strong for your mom and your siblings. Will pray for you.
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