Author Archives: arlene
So Long
It took me so long to access this blog, I wonder what happened really. It is always touch and go so I stay with my main blog Dreams and Escapes which you can access here. This is just a trial post once more. I could not even see the tags and categories….whew!
My Golly
Gosh, why do I find it so hard to acces this site. Still a trial and error thing. It always points me to my main blog.
Be Strong And Courageous
It’s been a while. I am reblogging this here from my main blog Dreams and Escapes. I hope you’ll find time to visit it to.
My gosh, I got so excited when I saw it. There are several designs actually and all with Biblical passages. One of the vendors in our subdivision is selling them. Although I have lots of cloth face masks, I’ve been using one since I was operated on eleven years ago, I bought this because I love the message it conveys.
I may not have the chance to use it, I have more than a dozen washable face masks here and also N-95 and ordinary surgical masks. I like looking at it and I am uplifted by its message.
BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS!
What A Surprise!
I can’t believe I haven’t touched and visited this blog like forever (an exaggeration of course) but I was so focused on updating my main blog so I forgot about this.
Early this morning while I was watering the plants, I looked up at our jackfruit trees and saw this.
I was hoping I could still use it for ginatang langka (a young jackfruit cooked in coconut cream) but it was already so big to use it as a veggie. I would just let it ripen. Maybe in a month o two, we could harvest it.
These trees usually bear fruits during the summer months but this one appeared quite early. Just lucky and blessed I guess.
Good morning friends!
A Leap Of Faith
I am reblogging this here for all its worth. Thank you for reading 🙂
You might wonder how are family has been since my brother was diagnosed with rectal cancer which has metastasised in his liver.
Allow me first to thank you all for your prayers and words of comfort. It is helping us a lot that there are friends who also hope for a longer life for my brother.
Since he left the hospital, I call them everyday. He needs that moral support that we can give even in our small way. He has let go and let God do the rest for his healing. He decided not to undergo that much dreaded operation and even chemotherapy later on. Just to give you an idea, we are four siblings in all and my eldest brother underwent surgical operation with chemotherapy when he was diagnosed with the same ailment back in 2003. I had mine in July 2009 with six cycles of chemotherapy. I had doubts that this must be hereditary. There might be something in our genes causing the three of us to have the same ailment. I remember what my medical oncologist said though years ago that genes/heredity comprises only 10% when you are diagnosed with colon cancer.
I was listening to my favorite radio program the other week when they had this one-hour segment called Kaibigan sa Kalusugan and their topic was about cancer and initial cure. They are a group of doctors who believe in alternative medicine. I left a message in their program which was also broadcasted on their Facebook page. One of their personnel texted me and gave me the details of their clinic near our place here in Manila. I texted back that my brother is in the province and Manila is too far for travel. They have a clinic in Pampanga (more than seventy km. from our place in the province) so last Monday, my brother, sis-in-law and a cousin who temporarily drives for them went for consultation. I googled their way of treating patients with different illnesses and I was impressed. Even my brother was all praises for them. They are doctors too. I was even more in awe when I read that they are known worldwide and that the medicines they prescribe to their patients are BFAD (Bureau of Food and Drugs) approved here in the Philippines. My brother was prescribed three medications and they have to come back on Monday and bring new laboratory tests that they have requested. They even told him to continue with his previous medications prescribed by his doctors at the hospital.
This is a leap of faith. Hoping for a better health for my brother.I always remember that God does not give us crosses that we can’t bear. He will always be there guiding our paths. Going through such challenges is quite heavy both for my brother and the family but we remain faithful and hopeful of God’s wisdom and mercy. There is a place where He wants us to be and we are truly grateful for that.
May God bless us all.
Lato, Anyone?
Gosh, I can’t believe it’s been almost a year now since I posted something here. I am always updated with my main blog though, a link of which is attached here.
Sharing this photo I took yesterday, we locally call it Lato salad, a appetizer. I love seaweeds and I buy them once in a while fresh from the wet market.
He Is A Big Boy Now
Nonna’s joy. I think this is the second time I posted a picture of my grandson here.
He is turning six this coming November. Time flies. Happy Grandparents’ Day to all proud grandparents like I am.
Dreams Never End 
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