Peeping Tom

I have mixed feelings as of the moment but sadness unquestionably reigns.

I am currently here at the 6thYESCampInDumaguete or the Youth for Environment Summer (YES) Camp 2008 while at home, my family is facing a very difficult challenge.

I was already on my way to here when I received a message from my sister that they brought my mother to the hospital because she has a deep wound in her foot as a result of an infection from an ant bite. The wound cut deep into the area around her ankles that she can barely walk. We doubted that her wound had gone into such state due to diabetes but her laboratory results proved that her blood sugar level is normal. She was able to go back home after a day at the hospital.

The following day, I received a message from my niece, who is a nurse at the hospital where my mother was brought that my father was brought there, too, that morning because he had cardiac arrest. Later, I learned that his aneurysm was reason. Blood was already inside his brain an an operation can’t possibly be successful says the doctor. He was confined in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital until the doctor declared that my father’s is a hopeless case. He was transfered to a private room on the same day and is unconscious up to now. I and the rest of my family has decided to accept whatever is the God’s will. We are hoping that His miracle would save my father.

I have a thought at the back of my head that my father has been suffering for a very long period already and it might be God’s way of giving him rest. I love my father so much even if he was physically absent for almost half of my life. I know how he hard he worked for our big family that eventually led him to become paralyzed since I was in first year high school. But I cannot question the Lord’s plan for us.

I would like to thank those who