a feedback from Authentic Pinay

re: Seniors' Life

 

Thanks for sharing the story and pictures, Vic….It reminded me of my mom when she decided to join her best friend and got her own studio apartment in one of the senior resident establishments way back 1994-2000. She enjoyed the company of her fellow seniors. The place had everything from a library to a gym to a barber/beauty shop.  Everyone in that home was competent and  they seemed happy… they played bingo, exercised together, went to field trips, and yes, there were people like you and your friends who once in a while volunteer to spend time with the seniors entertaining them. I, too, participated in one of their “doll shows”. Everyone there loved Nanay, except for one, who did not like mahjong ( hahahaa)....you see, nanay introduced and taught the game mahjong and sometimes I go there to played mahjong with them...they always had a blast when I make "bunot" and yelled " ladies delight!" and show them the tile " two balls"...everytime I do that, everyone laughs! it never fails....  ( we played with pennies...just like with their weekly bingos). A lot of the seniors there knew me as the “daughter of  Esper”.  

 

 In 2001, me and my siblings decided to talk her into moving back with us because when her best friend passed away (heart attack), she became lonely and always teary eyed….she told us that when the seniors start to “fade away” or be incompetent, they were sent to the home for the aged, and that every time she heard the sound of the fire truck's siren she gets into this nervous attack that maybe one of her friends is being transported to a hospital ER. She moved in with us and traveled from one place to the other ( Indiana , Canada , Sacramento and Stockton )…she enjoyed traveling and spending time with us,  and  her “apos” who called her “nanay”. She still visits with her senior friends and they spend a lot of time together as well.

 

Last June of this year,my mom was diagnosed with cancer, and the doctors’ prognosis was 1-4 months. She asked us if we could take her back to the Philippines, because she wants to spend the rest of her remaining life with my 2 other sisters and her own brother and sisters back home,   so we did took her back home…now she is a living proof  that her  doctors’ prognosis was wrong…she is still  gratefully praising the Lord,  and very much alive and kicking! ( Thanks to the Almighty Father). I talked to my mom the other night and she says she still communicates with her few "remaining" senior friends. You are absolutely right, Vic, we are all going to pass away...."

 

Life is not the party we hoped for.. but while we are here, we might as well dance!"-anonymous-

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