God, Happiness and Life

My brother Mario died of colon cancer last October. It was his death's 40th day last November 25th. All I can say is I miss him very much and I love him...

Sadly, I now realize, indeed my brother has colon cancer. Cory Aquino's condition and subsequent death convinced me. These are some of the local symptoms my brother had when it was discovered that he had colon cancer. It started when his stomach grew big as large as though he was 7 months pregnant. The hard head that he was, didn't want to see a doctor. But that day, he no longer had any choice. He was in huge pain.And he was vomitting. He went to the hospital with his wife,  our niece and his son. The doctor immediately decided to do an operation. A certain part of his large intestine was ready to burst. Bacteria was fast spreading all over his stomach. They had to arrest that first,  before doing an operation. They found a tumor as big as an egg in his colon. It had to be removed. It was the source of  all the infection he was suffering from. At that point, I knew he most likely had cancer. I looked over wikipedia, "a tumor that is large enough to fill the entire l

I have only two brothers. My father's gone but thank God my Mom is still around. I don't know how to say this but my brother is also with colon cancer stage 3. His children are aged 13, 11 and 3. Too young to lose a parent. It's been awhile since I learned this, but didn't have enough courage to write about it anywhere; as if not talking about it will make the ailment go away. But because Cory Aquino just died of the same ailment, I finally got enough gut to speak about it. I consider myself a coward, refusing to think of what is going to happen. I fact I have only seen him twice since the news broke out. I realized, how selfish of me, thinking only of my personal pain, instead of doing my share in attempting to give him comfort in whatever form. Today, I cry and cry and cry for my brother... his children and Cory Aquino.