Happy New Year!

Happy and blessed 2009 to all of you. :) So how did you guys celebrate your new year? I'd love to read your comments.

Actually, I do not know if this is really a happy new year for our family. It's because we received a bad news from my aunts. Tatay, papa's father ((my grandfather)), had a not-so-good ultrasound result. He needs to undergo more tests to confirm the results. He's diabetic and he's having a lot of complications.

As a nurse, it's already normal for me to hear such cases. I have handled so many diabetic patients when I was a student and a trainee. So when I heard about the news, I automatically discussed the pathophysiology of the result to my parents. It was hard explaining them in layman's term.

As a grand daughter, I felt sad, of course. Who wouldn't, right? Although I am not very close to my grand father ((because we grew up here in Quezon City and they are residing in the province ever since)), I still worry about his health.

But as the daughter of my grandfather's first son, I am more of concerned. My father only lost two significant people in his life: his aunt ((tatay's sister)), who gave our 2 houses, and his grandmother ((tatay's aunt)), who raised him up and sent him to school until he earned his degree. Nothing's permanent in this world. I'm a nurse. With those diagnoses ((three different complications)), I know where this is leading to. I really hope that papa would face this challenge in his life and his family with strong faith in God.

I badly need your prayers for my grandfather and for our family.

On a lighter note, I made a quote for myself. It's like a goal that I really, really have to achieve this year.

Tough, huh.

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