Life is beautiful!Life is sometimes tough but it's kinda Cheat Life.A motivational blog,inspired by @surpassinggoogle

 My stories played itself out before my face. I saw my mum in the corner loving us. I saw her "shine". I saw my dad's "shine" too and it is what it is; "we simply need that "shine" back"; not food, wigs, meat; "shine"!!!  

This is one of the thoughts of @surpassinggoogle in his recent blog earlier,and was so deeply touched by these statements.You can check this url link of it.

https://steemit.com/life/@surpassinggoogle/this-particular-day-gave-me-more-signs-there-is-now-light-inside-the-tunnel .

Just like what Sir Terry testified during his meet up in Cebu in @steemsummit,i feel him too.I experienced the struggles he experienced in life. In 2015,i experienced a very tragic moments in my life.And here's my story.

My second Child was born.

January 3,2015 marks a very challenging journey in my life.I struggled so much.I suffered the pain in me.And this Bible verse mesmerizes me

If any man will come after me.If any man will come after me.Let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow,follow me.

January 3 2015,Sunday ,at 11pm my wife Ann delivered our second child and named Yzykhiel taken from the patron saint St. Ezekiel Moreno(patron saint of the cancer patients).During that time,i was not in my wife's side because i was in Dumaguete and my wife conceived not in the exact date of what the OB-gyne Doctor told us.She delivered a premature baby of 8 months and 3 weeks  only.I immediately traveled from Dumaguete to Bayawan for about 2 hours to arrived in the said private clinic .I saw my child very healthy.I was so very happy then.At first,we thought everything was normal and fine.I thought we can go home after 3 days but something bad happened.My child(Zyk)coudn't to suck milk and his heartbeat isn't functioning.I was so nervous.We were advised to be in a big District hospital because in a private clinic,there's no available Oxygen to support his breathing but we just stayed there in a district hospital coz' our baby is in danger or i say 50/50 vital signs.

 I prayed.I prayed a lot.We were advised to transfer in a private hospital in Dumaguete and was confined in an Intensive Care unit.Zyk was just 2 days old then.He was diagnosed in sepsis neonatorum( Neonatal sepsis is a type of neonatal infection and specifically refers to the presence in a newborn baby of a bacterial blood stream infection (BSI) (such as meningitis, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, or gastroenteritis) in the setting of fever. Older textbooks may refer to neonatal sepsis as "sepsis neonatorum". He also has a Hypoglycemia(low blood sugar count)and a yellow bilirubin.The Doctor said that,if in 2 -3 days my baby cannot fight for life and the antibiotics the she gaved will not support him,then he will be again delivered in Cebu or his blood will be  transported in Cebu.So,my second child is in danger.My wife cried and felt so hopeless but i keep myself strong and trust my hopes in my God.

What i did was,i immediately baptized my baby in January 5,2016 and named him Yzykhiel in the name of patron St.Ezekiel Moreno.He has just had two witness "ninangs"  . He was 3 days old that time.I have nothing to do but to take up my cross and hopes in the Lord during those moments of crisis in life.Our Hospital bill increased and increases everyday.I don't have stabled job that time coz' i was just a part time instructor in the University.I don't have enough money to support financially.My wife is a Government employee but still our budget is in troubled.To make the story short,after  5 days in the hospital,we're still in dilemma,50/50 status of survival and with all the tubes were all in his body(6 tubes ).My wife cried and seen no hopes.I was the one who comforted her and i kept her saying,

If he will be given to us,then he will live but if not,then,let's pray and still be thankful of the blessings He gaved and He let us experienced of what a real Angel is. Kapit lang at wag mawalan ng pag-asa.May awa ang Diyos.

On the sixth day of our confinement,i seen  the Light of Hope.I  see the sign that my child survived.In the next room in which were confined,i met an old woman.And she said,she was already in the hospital for almost 30 days and assisted her grandson who was in the same hospital too.In my curiousity i asked her,

Me: Taga-saan po ba kayo?(From where are you?)

Old Woman: Taga Siquijor po ako. (I'm from Siquijor.)

Me: Sino po ang pangalan ng pasyente po ninyo?(What is the name of your patient?)

Old Woman:Ang pangalan niya ay si Ezekeil.Siya ay 6 na taong gulang na.(He's name is Ezekiel and his already Six years old.)

Me: Ah,ganun po ba?Ano po ba ang sakit niya?

Old Woman:Sepsis Neonatal,at Hypoglycemia.

Me: Pareho pala ang sakit ng apo mo sa anak ko.Salamat po.!(Thanks lola.Your grandson has the same diagnosis with my baby.)

I can't imagined that there's a message coming from above that it's really a sign that my baby will be fine.I thank the old woman.She's an angel and an instrument coming in Heaven's above.

 On the 7th day in the hospital(he was 7 days old ),my child was brain scanned and checked his heart beats.In my amazement,it went into normal status and the Doctor said,that ,you don't have to worry no more coz' our baby is fighting.Our baby is a fighter.The doctor said "I can't believed this.This is a rare situation.It's really a miracle baby because in my experienced,it will took 3-5 months to cure this kind of diagnosis.Everything is clear now."

Wow!Thanks God.That was really a miracle.Our doctor advised us to stay for 3 days for his complete recovery.I think,that old woman is not only an ordinary person but a messenger of God.I also can't believed that i payed my bills for 10 days in the hospital with no enough money on hand.I just asked financial assistance in the PCSO(Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office)and gaved me $500 for financial assistance.Wow!God works in mysterious Ways! Our bill was over a Hundred thousand pesos and we only had Php.40,000.00 that time.I don't know how we surpassed that thing.All i can say is that,God is watching us from a distance and for those who believed will be not be forsaken.

Today,Zyk is already 2 years old and running 4 months now.He is still taking up his medicine maintenance for his blood and random blood count to monitor his blood status.He's fine now and a very active child.:)

 

My Papa's story

 My dad; "i so pray that in his heart, "he felt some soothing happiness". He needs it like crazy. "The tiniest of happiness" counts in his case. It will fill me up with fulfillment. All, his old memories came back; "all of it". He spoke Greek again and his "memory", when it clicks, is clear and intact and decades of it. He spoke in Greek; spoke of Greece. He spoke to my aunt on the phone. It was pleasing to see.  

This messages captured my attention in reading one of the inspiring blogs of Sir Terry @surpassinggoogle.I'm so amazed how Sir Terry cherished the moments when he was still still in his dad .How he surpassed life in general.It's also the same in my life story.As what i've mentioned in my previous posts about my father,my papa was my first Music Mentor.He loved singing and playing guitar too.His life changed when he got diagnosed Malignant Cancer stage (eye orbital mass left)4 in June 2015. And the story goes this way.

During that same year ,my life struggle continues.   In June 2015,i was hired as a Deped teacher in a public school.My papa and my mom ,went in Manila to have his eyes to be examined.It was a second option already. They've stayed there in my auntie for almost two months in Paranaque. The doctor diagnosed him  in  Eye Cancer Stage 4,no cure.That was a time of suffering and a very sad moments in our life.After two years,he was so ill.I feel him.I can feel his suffering and his life's struggle.I decided to quit my teaching in January 2017 and served my papa in his remaining days of existence in this cheat life as what @surpassinggoogle mentioned in his blog,A cheat life.

This photo was the same with my father's eye.

I can  feel that his death is coming coz' he kept on telling me life after death.Is there heaven or is there hell?I feel him.And i feel him so much!I was so sad but i showed comfort in him.He woke up early dawn just to wipe the tears in his eyes.He keeps on putting  eyebags in his protruding eyes just to ease the agony of this cancer.He was depressed.Lonely. He was not like that before.He was a happy man and a very brave man. He kissed us early in the morning just to cheer us up.But during those struggles in his life,i can see no longer the optimism in him maybe because he's suffering from Cancer.There was one time we talked and he said,

Papa: Del,is there really Heaven?

Me:Yes,it's true.

Papa:Why you say so?

Me:There's Heaven because we as a Christian,we believed in Jesus as our Personal Savior.Before we'll be buried on the ground,our dead body still be blessed and prayed over in the church.So,If there's no life after death,then,it will be fine that we'll be buried immediately without any prayer petitions.If you believe,then,you will be saved.If not,then,when you die,then you are just like an animal.No life's purpose,no mission!

Papa:You have a point.Thanks.

Upon saying this,i pondered why he asked those kind of topic.I think he's death is really coming.I feel him.I feel so much trouble in his life.He needs comfort.I was the one who took cared of him for almost 7 months.Buying medicines.He can't see anymore.Sadly,he passed away,August 14,2017.Those were the moments that i feel that i lost myself.I lost my father.But life is like that.A cheat life.Still thankful to the life bestowed on me.He motivated me to pursue my passion in teaching.He supported me to continue my journey in freelancing.I just missed my father.I missed him so much.That's why i do freelancing coz' i value that TIME is very important in world.

Going back in @surpassinggoogle's story i reflected that,we have same story.I'm so thankful to read his post and shared this one to you.That in life,there are times that you really need to sacrifice and put so much patience and dedication in the passion you have for you to be happy.To be happy is what we are aiming for.In watching his video,i was so inspired too.

https://steemit.com/life/@surpassinggoogle/this-particular-day-gave-me-more-signs-there-is-now-light-inside-the-tunnel

Thanks Sir Terry for this inspiring blog you've made.I'm touched and so thankful for this opportunity in sharing this blog to all of you.

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