The most painful conversation I ever had in my life
happened a month ago when my sick Mom called me for a solemn talk. She was so
very sick, bedridden and helpless on her bed. That was two weeks after she was
discharged from the hospital coming from a heart attack. That conversation was
the turning point for me to realize that the WOMAN who gave me life had finally
given up her life’s journey. It was the only time after all these years to see
my Mom finally resigned from her life’s battle against her “end stage renal
failure”. But that conversation made me see the kind of a WOMAN my mother had been
to me and to the rest of her family.
For most of you here today, you remember our mother as
the lady next door who prepared viands for her food store every day. Perhaps,
it is the biggest legacy she left for us. Poldang’s Carenderia. But our Mother is
more than just that.