Miracles happen everyday...

Miracles happen everyday...

Time has come that I have to personally take good care of my parents before it’s too late.

My Tatay and Nanay have been diagnosed with diabetes. Last week, my father was in pain because of a wound on his toe. He consulted a doctor and he was advised to take medicine. The pain was recurring that he decided to be admitted at Adela Serra Ty Memorial Medical Center in Tandag, Surigao del Sur last Sunday, August 10, 2018. He was given antibiotics through IV and other meds to cure his infected toe. I was in close contact with my mother who served as my father’s personal watcher. Every time I make a call to check them, my father would say that he’s suffering from excruciating pain every now and then. He barely had enough sleep because of his illness. There was an instance when my mother called me up while I was on my way to meet my students for a research class. (08.14.18) She cried because my father’s foot has worsened. I then thought of going home immediately because my mother requested me to visit them ASAP because my father’s attending doctor recommended for a surgical operation to remove his infected toe.

08.15.18
Bothered as I was, I contacted Dr. Porferio Serrano, my 2nd degree cousin who I consider as a dear nephew. I requested him to check on my father’s condition and he readily said yes. Consequently, he visited my father and took a photo of my parents as well as the infected toe of my father. I was totally disturbed to see my father becoming thin now with his foot swollen because of the infected toe. I sought Perper’s advice and he told me that another laboratory test has to be conducted to check whether the blood circulation on his feet is still okay.

08.16.18
My beloved sister Jane Arbo told me of an alternative medicine because her daughter Dian Arbo shared that many diabetic persons have been healed with Kings Herbal. I told myself, we have to give this a try. I googled Kings Herbal Iligan, called the posted number and searched the actual location in Tibanga but after exhausting myself looking for it, I was told that they no longer have their branch now. I then googled Kings Herbal CDO. I tried calling all the numbers until I got to talk with the attendant about the details. Thankfully, I got to buy 4 bottles at Php 1,000 each.

08.17.18
After a 17-hour gruelling and butt-numbing trip from Iligan to Tandag, I arrived 1:10AM at the provincial hospital. At 2:30AM, I let my father drink 30ml of Kings Herbal. As advised, it should be taken at least 20-30 minutes before meal. Before lunchtime, we increased his consumption of Kings Herbal to 60ml.

Together with Doc Perper, we requested the attending doctor that my father be discharged from the hospital on that day because I will be bringing him together with my mother to Iligan City. Thankfully, the doctor gave permission. With the help of Doc Perper, my father was transported from the hospital to Butuan via an ambulance. We left the hospital at 1:00PM and arrived in Butuan at 4:20PM. Thank God.

At 5:13PM, we took a photo of Tatay’s swollen foot and it started to get better. Then before dinner, he took 60ml of Kings Herbal. My father also took the prescribed medicine, vitamin B complex and Cilostazole to improve blood flow on his legs and feet.

We then have our overnight stay at Wayfarer Pension House, an affordable accommodation because it would be too hard for us to proceed directly to CDO.

08.18.18
My father woke up at 4:28AM and shared to us that he got a good rest, long enough to make him feel relaxed after not getting much sleep at the hospital. We then took a photo of his swollen foot and we thank God it’s fast recovering.

Thank you so much to the doctors, nurses and staff of Adela Serra Ty Memorial Medical Center for taking care of my father including those watchers of other patients who have become neighbors of my parents for a short while. More thanks to Doc Porferio Pantaleon Serrano for all the help: from visiting my parents to preparing an ambulance for a more convenient and easier transport from the hospital to Butuan. Special thanks to our family and relatives especially Manang Jane Celeste and Diana Arbo for introducing Kings Herbal and for the financial help. Thanks also to my wife Mj Fuentes Celeste and her relatives for being so supportive of our plan of having my Nanay and Tatay stay in our home. And to everyone who in one way or another have extended help to us especially those who sent prayers, daghang salamat.

I’m sharing this post to everyone in the hope that this may also help those who are suffering from diabetes, those who are scheduled for surgical operation to remove a certain body part because it is infected and those who could not afford insulin because it is costly. Drinking the prescribed and this alternative medicine would be okay.

Feel free to send me a message for questions.

As of this writing, we are on our way to CDO via bus transpo because my father is getting better; and hopefully we could proceed to Iligan, my home away from home.

Indeed, miracles happen everyday and we thank God for everything. May all the resources we need for the total recovery of my father be made available in Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.