The word cancer is a struggle in itself. The moment a person receives the diagnosis, one would probably start mentally laying out the consequences. I think you would agree with me if I say that, if given the chance, every person would rather choose other kinds of adversities in life but a life- threatening illness.…
Cancer or any life- threatening illness isn’t something that you would want to immediately share in public. If anything, it’s something that you would want to hide. In my case, I didn’t hide it. In fact, many people knew about it. But I sure didn’t post it in Facebook. In a time when we are…
How I wish my muesli recipe today is as flavorful as compared to the one I've made the other day. But it's not. It's bland. But still, it's something that i would call expensive. Mine is very simple, but most of it's ingredients came a long way to be here in my possession. I only…
As I was riding tricycle on my way home one Saturday afternoon, I noticed Kuya Driver kept turning his head to look at me. I thought it was just nothing out of his curiosity- like how other people used to stare at me primarily of my odd looks. I was wearing my favorite gray beanie…
It’s early Wednesday morning and I am sitting in a bench outside the cancer clinic. In front of me are parked vehicles and a tall mabolo tree. The clinic will not open until eight o’clock so I patiently wait. Hospital staffs pass by me to grab a breakfast at the canteen- morning shifters. I remember…
Frustration creeps inside of me every time I think I've wasted a time. The other day it did, again. It didn't help that I wasn't able to help Papa with the laundry. I heard him from my room complaining about how tired he was and instead of helping him out, I was just stuck with…
In my more than a year of stay since I was diagnosed, Sundays at home are usually predictable. Most of the time we are five in the house: me, my parents, and my 2 cousins - both in their senior college years. My two other siblings are in Cebu City. I would wake up at…
Journey with cancer can be very lonely, especially for a young adult. You look around you and none of your peers go through the same thing. And that itself is already depressing. Although it is good, in fact, very good that none of them experience what you do because it means none of them have…
So you could say my reset process is dreadful. And even I myself believe in that. However, among all the many things I have learned in this journey is that you never really stay as low as where you are right now as long as you continue fighting for your life, searching for silver lining…
I remember now. I’ve always wanted to tell people around me that I wanted to just stop. Or maybe just take a pause- from everything. A pause would probably do. It would have been enough to change the course of my life. It would have saved me. Not that I wasn’t saved, because I was.…
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