mum

April 29, 2006. i have to buy mum her new antibiotics the doctor prescribe since her laboratoy tests were back to normal. i was planning to buy it earlier so that i could still have time to even give myself a break through window shopping in the busy streets of downtown area of Bacolod..but i left the house too late. it was pass 11am that i am getting irritated in waiting the sales clerk of the drugstore to give me my pcs of antibiotic, i bought cards for my friend and nephew who’s celebrating their birthday and bought mom half kilo of grapes…then i went home.

1:00pm. mom was having a hard time breathing which my uncle borrowed our neighbor’s oxygen tank.

3:00pm. my neighbor asked me to pray the preparation for death which it caught my surprised. why should i pray? mom’s not going to die. she’s strong enough, she’ll fight back for sure. tita betty explained to me everything she could–to help me understand and most especially to have me pray…and i prayed.

4:00pm. “amen”. i saw mom’s thin skin she got from her breast operation which you can see the palpitation of her heart. it was the prayer she was all waiting for. she died april 29, 2006 at exactly 4pm.

weird enough that during that day, it was the pageant night of “Linay sang Negros” which she should be there as part of the production. i saluted mom with regards to her passion with her craft as 4pm was a call time everytime they have projects like this.

april 30 was very important date to her since it was the birthday of her first grandson who is turning 1 year old. it was her promise and her prayer that if she could see her “apo” turns 1 year, she is ready of whatever will happen to her.

it was already a month that mom died, yet it was still fresh for all of us who dearly loved mom. we were used to that mom always been there during our ups and downs in our lives. we miss mom so much that everything was so different now.

i am back to work…but not for good…only to distract myself from the loneliness of waht you called LIFE. But still, the memories of mom everytime i went home from work still there that i could still feel tears flowing in me.

so hard to lose a mom..especially she was not a typical mom you have. she’s extreme…superb..extraordinary…talented…whatever word you can describe she surely suits it.

…wherever she is..i know, we know, we have a new guardian angel wholl guide us with no excuses.

from the sinay-monares clan, thank you.

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