A Nurse's Point of View

Lila Eviana is the name given by my son Justin and her mother Rosalyn to her. They wanted to name her Eviana Rafaelli but I asked them to attached my mother's nickname Lila and how obedient of them, they didn't disappoint me. They love the idea  especially my son since he was somehow raised by his grandmother when he was young so to honor my mother they were just happy to do that. Lila as we fondly called her since she was born on February 9. 2013 at 8:21 pm was a tiny little baby.  She weighed only 2.5 kg. Her face was just as big as my son's fist according to him but she was "alive and kicking". It was a big relief to me, my husband Ton and my daughter Isabel because I can only monitor her through phone calls.  I was very happy she was delivered safe through normal delivery. We thanked God for that. Today she turns1 and besides the money that we sent her to celebrate her birthday, I made a special letter for her through the video below. It talked a...

Day 6 of my writing challenge. Prompt - Tell Someone's Story This is a story about my childhood friend whom I haven’t seen for more than 3 decades now since she left for Saudi Arabia to work as a domestic helper. Her name was Lolita but she was fondly called Lolet. She was living opposite our house where I grew up and spent most years of my life .   I am not sure if she was the same age as me or a year older. I thought she was taller than me because her body type was bigger. She was a nice person. A good daughter of a very nice couple. The 4th child of 6 siblings. She was beautiful, kind, very responsible and industrious, doing almost all the household chores back then. We were not together during our elementary days. She went to a school nearby and I went to another school with my oldest brother and had to stay at my grandfather’s house during weekdays and go home on weekends. So whenever I was home, we always try to make up for the days that we didn’t see each...

Women especially mothers say unless a woman became a mother, she will not feel and experience the joy and happiness, loneliness and the pain of becoming one. Anybody (ladies and women) can relate to me in situations like when having arguments with our moms, they would always say , “ You will understand everything once you become a mother” for which I did and for sure a lot of you will agree with me. I became a mom for the first time when I was 27 and the second time 10 years after. I was blessed with a son and a daughter. Before the birth of my daughter, my mother supported me a lot taking care of my first born, Justin Raphael. She was present in my son’s life , she was like the second mother to him back then, I wasn’t around him most of the time because I needed to work and went abroad twice. I had and still having my shares of joy and pain being a mom but for now I will talk about the person who gave me life and who have loved me until the last breath of her life - my dea...