It will be 7 years tomorrow.

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It is the National day of celebration here in my country- the Philippine Independence Day is commemorated nationwide. But this day is also a sorrowful day for my family… Seven years ago on this day, I brought my mother to the hospital because of vomiting and hypertension. She was confined with the tentative diagnosis of gastro-enteritis (which was not right because she vomited just twice, and no loose motions too). Dawn of the 13th, my mother left us to join our father in Heaven. She just slept, with no fight against death, but she talked the gift of tongues. I was with her throughout the night and until she breathed her last. I was the one who decided to stop the resuscitative measures. It is with deep sorrow and sadness to lose our parents, but I know they are there in heaven watching over us. The white dress I wore in my first Holy communion was sewn by my mother, a great seamstress.