Health Issues

Last month of 2012 and here I am suffering from being sick, this cough and flu is killing me and I’m getting fever-ish. This is the only time of the year that my immune system is very weak. Boohoo! Around Mid August, I told my husband that I feel so happy because I never got sick, that I am very healthy. But hey, what happened now?

To my dismay, I check Google and search on some tips to avoid this ailing clause.

Here are 8 simple ways to keep the bacteria and viruses at bay in your life:

#1). Wash your hands several times a day. Even if you think they are not dirty, they probably are bacteria is hard to see.

#2). Take a shower daily and wear clean clothes.

#3). Always drink plenty of water. This is an easy one, but a much neglected issue for many of us.

#4). Try not to over eat, this one is pretty self explanatory

#5). If you eat processed, fast foods everyday, take a vitamin supplement.

#6). Find an activity that you enjoy to keep you more active.

#7). Use mouth wash, it's an easy way to keep the bacteria down in your mouth.

#8). Get proper rest. If you are tired all the time you cannot make proper decisions.

Reference: http://voices.yahoo.com/8-simple-tips-stay-healthy-all-year-round-2374450.html

Being healthy and fit i would say is the most fleeting thing that you can do for yourself aside from the fact the you are fit you will feel good about yourself as well.

Hope this help, stay healthy everyone! =))

HannahZ_B

There is always a light

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December last year typhoon “Sendong” hits the Philippines and has lost many lives and many of them are in Mindanao.

Today, another Typhoon strikes the country and the saddest part is it’s even more extreme than Sendong. When calamities like this happened I am always at my lowest point because I am away from my family. Living away from them is the most hurting stir because I want them safe, always.. Mama and Papa are the only ones left at home and they do not have anybody that will company them, worse thing is my Dad is paralyzed. I could not imagine how difficult the situation is when worse thing has to come (GOD FORBID!)

 

We can never really tell if this kind of mishap will smack us down, and the best thing we can do is to be alert and vigilant. Listen to news, packed some important stuff you might need in case there is a need to evacuate (water, food, clothes, flashlights and the like). And lastly, PRAY – that is the most effective weapon we have.

Good thing because my family in Butuan City are okay, they are safe and sound just what I wanted to know. Keep safe everyone! We will all go through this together.

Love,

H

Happy Birthday, Mom

Today, boyf and I attended a seminar regarding “pre-marriage” as a requirement for an incoming event that is happening in October. I was totally amused because we were well educated about family planning, we were also taught about home management and how to achieve our individual roles in the future.

I think of my mother while the seminar is going on because today is Her special day as she is celebrating another year of Her life, my Mom like my Dad is the most important person to me although we argue a lot, but in all honesty she duly trained me to be mature and independent person. I would say that my Mom is the kindest person I know, she loved to lend a hand to people who are in need of help, especially when it comes to old people, maybe because of a huge influence of my grandparents who’s very loving as well. I remember, for the past two years up until at present she would initiate feeding program, giving out vitamins and slippers to some rural areas in our province. That’s how benevolent my Mom is. Who wouldn’t be proud of that?

She taught us a lot of things about life, how to deal with our own struggles and how to fight for it. Mom instructed to always keep our feet off the ground in times of triumph and would always remind us to look back where we came from and to be proud of our roots. She sacrificed her career and had to stop working to look after us as we grow up, she find ways and means to grant our demands (May it be material thing), she thoroughly assisted us in our assignments and supports us in any activities during our school days even at present, she would even cry if we were heart broken, a good listener indeed.

Her role as a mother is beyond measure, I truly understand now how much my mother throws in when it comes to us. Ma, I know you have to take in all the aches that has been going on for a while specially with Papa’s condition, thank you because you never fail to perform your job as a mother and as a wife, thank you for being strong for Papa and for us, thank you for the unending love you have poured unto us. I am very proud to have you as my mother and I will forever be thankful for everything you have done for us. This day, I wish you good health and that you and the rest of the family will be safe always, I love you to death, Ma.

To the best Mom in the world, Happy happy Birthday.. =))

P.S.
If I have to live again and asked to choose a mother, I would definitely look for her and pick her, that’s how much my Mom influenced me a lot.

xoxo

Hannah

Daughter’s Cry

November 2011 (his 1st attack - the day when he was discharged from the hospital)



March 2012 (2 months before his 2nd fatal attack)

My heart was frayed straight away when my sister told me about my father’s condition. After being spotted with stoke for almost 2 months, which I also blogged about. His neurologist evaluated him with Expressive Aphasia after their recent check-up. Aphasia is a communication disorder. It's a result of damage or injury to language parts of the brain. Aphasia gets in the way of a person's ability to use or understand words.

I have the answers to my questions, every time I get the change to talk to him he would just utter words repetitively when I ask him if he is done eating, what did he ate, did he took his medicines but still the same words are uttered like “Oo”, “Kuan”. Honestly, I am very hurt, the pain I am bearing right now is cruel, the same question came to mind, I just don’t understand why this has to happen why to my father and why do we have to suffer this blow. I sometimes feel that the world is adjacent to us and all ghastly things involuntarily occurred. (ing-ani nlng jud mi ka malas?) My father may only utter those words and could not communicate well, but deep within him he is struggling for us to understand what he is trying to convey which for me is very heartbreaking.

God, please give me the courage to understand things and accept them with all my heart. I just could not comprehend that things are happening the least I have projected. I know GOD seized everything that has been going on with our lives, but please, cure my father or at least alleviate some depressing things that have been going on with my life. I missed talking to my Dad, I missed how his ideas and mine cling together, I missed those days when we talk anything and everything, I miss it when he crack a joke, I missed his advises, I miss his smile, I miss my father sooo much. My father knows how much I love him because I have been telling him that since I was little, he knows how much I appreciate him as a father because my sisters and I have a good relationship with him. Some have their own heroes but he is our superhero. That’s how proud we are with our Dad.

Optimism is perched all around us that my Dad will be treated. I don’t have any idea if he will be well with this Expressive Aphasia thing but my family are doing the best we can to have him back to normal. One day, he will learn to converse again and as the usual we will have a good long talk and that all of us will be happy with no fears and anxieties hiding our sacks. As his eldest daughter I will cry for hope and wish that he will be okay in GOD’s time.

xo,
Hannah

 

Psalm 107:01

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When Faith Is Put To The Test

Growing up with my father is one of the very best things I will forever treasure.
His smile glows and makes our day extraordinary. His simple gesture gives us hope to overcome our day even if it went wrong. Energetic, Active and one of the most enthusiastic person I know, not only that he is God-fearing as well. A good provider to us 3 siblings and makes sure that he send us to a lofty school for quality education. My father in one way or another gives me the courage to go through life’s every tests and to never give-up by far.

I don’t want to be emotional but I can’t hide the pain I am feeling right now,

Because the person I look up to and the person who gives me inspiration suddenly has lost vigor, Saturday morning when Mum called and asked if how we are doing until she held that Papa is ill. Papa doesn’t want us to know about his present condition because He doesn’t want us to worry. My father recently is half paralyze, he is weak, vulnerable and is at risk. He can’t move his right arm and leg and he doesn’t utter a word or a thing. I can’t imagine the agony his bearing as of the moment.

I feel so helpless at this time, I feel like I am never a good daughter to him while he is to us. I love my father so much that if only I can wash away the excruciating pain he is feeling right now. If only I’ll carry the tormenting strain he is experiencing on his behalf I would gladly take it without any doubt. Sometime, I would ask God why this has to happen, why to my father.  

When faith is put to a test, we often cried for impartiality. We seek GOD’s providence and ask over for help. Friends, please include my father in you daily prayer, your plea will be of big help to me and to my family who is hurt with my Papa’s situation. I hope that God will give us enough courage to face the trial he has given to us. And the test he has set to us would apparently be an eye opener to each and everyone that we should never give our faith a halt.

Monday Blues

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Who doesn't?!


xo,
Hannah