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Sickness and health seem to fill the thread of the googgle group of this family. Everyone is concerned … anxious … views clashed … attitudes differ! Haay … what is right? who is right? Is it the grandma’s concerns and her trust to a related doctor? or, the somehow skeptical titas wanting to find other medical opinions? Hahaha, the debate goes on and the sick? Well, continues to need a medication. The situation brings me reminiscence of my younger days. No one in the family may have seen a doctor more than I … though I may have been the “hyper” of our olden days, I can still say that I was also the one in need more of a doctor … I was also prone to “nosebleed” then … without any provocation at all, but more so after a fist fight with roland ( I was always the loser! No, it was not the technique that nailed me then, it was his big size for a child really! hahaha). And the other causes, of course, were the many big incidents of my childhood, worthy of another “blog” even … hahaha … The attention was always there … It was alarming…! Many a night, papa and mama or, even with the big brothers horsecarrying me, would knock at doctors’ homes to receive treatment and diagnosis! … Mama would tug me along whenever Papa had to go to Zamboanga City for the DPWH matters with one intention: bringing me in pilgrimage to the Shrine of Nuestra Senora del Pilar, asking her to intercede for me and give good health. Hahaha … her prayers could have been so many that God gave in to her request: He made me a priest! haha … But going back to our topic, growing up meant having to contend with the different attitudes to sickness… Mama was, and is even now, always ready for her self medications… hahaha … I once saw her ground a “grilled to black tail of a house lizard”, and mixed it into the glass of milk for primo whose cough persisted for days … hahaha … it could not be only him, i think, but all of us: a toast of milk, tinged with lizard’s tail … hahaha .. well, it made us strong anyway, and very much alive today! Is that commendable for today’s sick? I think not … it was more of the faith, than of the medicine at all. Lola Iyang had her very effective sauna treatment! O, I loved it! Covered with heavy blankets, a hot pot of porridge in front of me , and us, sick … ah, it was marvelous! big drops of sweat just emerged from our skin (Who needs a danish sauna with that?) and … after that, voila’ (vhwalla!, meaning “there!” in french), the fever is gone! Oh yes, there was also her famous push to go out and play and sweat, whenever lola would see us feeling weak and sick! There, there … everyone has his/her peculiar way of dealing with sickness. No matter how, no matter what, the intention always get the best results: good health! There are always varied ways to treat an illness; but a good attitude will always get the best results.
amen to that
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well, kuya jok…. wondering if this is a blend of western and oriental medicine. thank you for the post. i will be in manila on april 19 to 22, then april 22 i will hie off to batanes for 5 days break. will be back to manila enroute for cebu on april 27. hope we can find time to bond this april. be well.
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welcome day Yvonne … sige, mag set ta ug meeting … mura ug si john imong kuyog sa batanes a???? hehehe … niwe, we will be going to trek the 2nd highest mountain in the phil this april 27. we will b back on april 30 ug makalakaw pa sa mga pamaol … hahahaha … it is good for you to drop by our site …
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no i willbe with fellow doctors from cebu…. all girls. initially planned to visit batanes with fr john , hatched that plan 2 years ago pa. what do you expect from you guys ….. sige man mo busy. i told him i will go ahead. i booked myself and the others followed. this is the usual pinoy style … you plan and invite others and they will say yes and when the day comes for buying tickets, they proscrastinate. so i booked and bought my tickets. when they saw i really really meant in going there even alone —- they all moved mountains to join me . hahahha , since they booked later , actually a matter of 2 days , their tickets were a thousand more expensive. i think the adventurous, daring Redoble streak in me knows no bounds. alam mo i went to Ubud Bali Indonesia for 5 days — all alone. actually i really thought i will go home a dead body when i was caught up in the middle of Monkey forest with 2 dozen monkeys fighting and i was alone in the midst of the forest!!!! i called all the saints and angels in heaven —- never prayed that hard —– i do not want to die in the hands of monkeys —PLEASE — i want a dignified exit!!
see you when i see you.
btw, mountain climbing is not that enticing yo me —– i do not like the sun so much — it adds wrinkles. sorry am just that vain.
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bwahahaha … john will be on vacation in Laoag city by then … just for info … hahaha … batanes is good, daw?, mommy miring santiago, a benefactor since 1980, has developed a resort out there unya sige lang ug invite … kulang na lang ipakuha ko ug helicopter … bwahahaha … pero no time for that talaga … niwe, mount pulag on april 27 is opprtune time kay cancelled man ang among rogationist assembly for april 27 to 30, 2009. Mao nga mag mountain climbing na lang mi, uban sad si Fr. Bruno namo, ug makidnap mi … bwahaha … purdoy ang mokidnap kay kusog ra ba mangaon ang mga pari … bwahaha … bitaw, it will be hard for you kay 8 hour walk up the summit man pod, besides sa init, pero up there is always raining …
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i told fr john of my plans, but he did not react….. siguro he has other plans. i will call him tonight. mountain climbing even if it will be very far and tiring will be ok as long as there is NO SUN. will highly appreciate walking in the rain.
you know when i visited fr joma in dalat last year, there were rainy days and we all had so much fun going around walking and riding the bikes with the rain —- we did these together with your Rogationist Sisters, bro king, and others.
make sure you are physically prepared for the trip —- jogging and exercise weeks before the date. can you ask your friend mommy miring santiago if it is possible to visit her. am already booked at batanes lodge resort, but will be nice to know some locals there.
i will surely capture the scenes with my cam—- hope i will do justice to the beauty of batanes
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bwahahaha … it is his son who has been keen on developing the resort … have to check out pa which one and where? … They have another one in bataan, near the rogationist parish … niwe, am preparing myself kay adtong sa poinatubo mi, grabe: mind over body. pagkalisod na jud i step ang tiil sa kakapoy ug cramps pa sa abdomen … Pulag will be very hard as it is an eigh hour climb … pero we will not be passing by the “killer trail”, zigzag and ravines et all … sa wide trail mi agi … i hope … good that you were in vietnam pero dili “coed” ang rogationists ha. bwahahaha
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