Grateful Dad

Good news! Matthew David was found. Like any parent, i breathed a sigh of relief and said a prayer of thanks when I heard the good news. Matthew's dad, Michael Samudio, posted a heartwarming note on his blog. Click on the link to read his post.

http://melquita.multiply.com/photos/album/349

Her Nephew was abducted :(

I was browsing my cousin EJ's site when I saw his post about a friend's nephew being abducted. Being a mom myself, i feel for the little boy's parents. Please do help in any way you can. Repost this on your sites, and watch out for the kid when you go out. (He was abducted in Festival Mall Alabang last July 22). And let's all pray that the little boy is safe and is returned home soon.

here's the link to her page: http://melquita.multiply.com/photos/album/348/HELP_My_Nephew_Was_Abducted

Text wisdom

I got this message via text earlier today. Apart from the usual jokes, nuggets of wisdom do sometimes come via text...

"There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations".

Here's something from my desk calendar:

"The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles". - Marion K. Rich

Paz y bien!

The torture machine

If you’ve ever had a mammogram, you know what this is.

Yup, it’s a torture machine! What else can you call a machine which squashes your breasts until they’re virtually flat, and all you can do is let out a squeak of a scream? Aargh!

Learning about friends and colleagues being diagnosed with breast cancer is enough to make me run scared to my ob-gyne. So after my annual physical, my ob-gyne prescribed me to undergo a mammogram. And though there’s no family history of breast cancer, the fact that there’s a history of cancer at all (my grandfather died of stomach cancer), is enough justification for me to have it done. Hypochondriac? Maybe. Careful? Yes!

It was my first mammogram ever, and let me tell you, it hurt like hell! The horror stories I heard were true! I consider myself as having a fairly high tolerance for pain, so if I say this hurts, it really does! But it’s a necessary evil for women, more so those who are 25 and older. The National Cancer Institute and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommend that women in their forties and older have mammograms every one to two years, but from what I’ve seen, it seems prudent to have regular mammograms earlier.

So even if it does hurt, I’d still say to women everywhere to go for it. Pain or no pain, go for it! It's just 10 minutes of pain anyway. Early detection of cancer increases your chances of survival. And to find out more about breast cancer, check out the link below:

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/