When ben (ate's husband) and i try to make light of the situation, we often mention how MMK (Maalaala Mo Kaya) our life is. It's a joke but really, it may be half true. With everything (not) going our way, we wonder when we will finally have our happy ending. Take their trip here to the Philippines for example. As i said, ate had to be flown here to the Philippines for treatment and so their trip should be off, 1030pm LA time. It was hard enough for ate to go to the airport and board the airplane (by this time she can't walk at all) but it was even harder to actually de-plane and board it again 12 hours later. What happened was the plane already took off, 1030pm but after one hour in the air, it had to turn back because of faulty landing gear. We understand that it was for their safety, but the service after landing again in the LA airport, according to ben was really bad that they had to stay in the airplane 4 hours after they landed. with nothing to eat but cookies. Ben even had to crush the cookies to give ate food because she won't be able to chew it at her condition. Again, we're thinking about ate here, she was slumped on her chair and they wouldn't even let them off the plane even though they knew that the plane wasn't going anywhere. So when finally decide to just cancel the flight altogether, they of course housed the passengers in the nearest hotel. and guess what, the hotel doesn't have wheelchairs! and since ate needs one, they offer ate one of those rolling chairs, and they had to bring ate to their room on that.
They finally got to board (again) 12nn the day after. The trip was ok but unfortunately, ate had another seizure (her third) 2 hours into the flight. it was just a mild one, but she went unconscious, only waking up very few times during the flight. One could just imagine how Ben must have been feeling during the entire flight. He was telling me that he was just praying that they get to land here safe and that's all he's asking for. And thank God they do make it safely and ate, even though that was such a difficult flight for her, she made it.
As I was expecting, my heart broke when I saw her. She was very weak in her wheel chair but you could see the light in her eyes. She was still talking during that time and she was saying hi to us and we were hugging her and welcoming her back. I really felt she was happy , and I was happy too, that we were together again albeit the circumstances but I know we'd be stronger together, and at the very least I have her here with me and I could still be on top of things especially for her upcoming treatments.
I was so proud of her after learning of what happened during the flight. I don't even know how she did it - imagine having a seizure 30000 feet in the air! She fought it with all she has, despite a cancelled schedule, a seizure, and a weak body, she endured it all just to return here, and it was amazing to see her smile again, and laugh with us. Ben said he thought he'd never see ate laugh like that again, but she did :) We brought her straight to the hospital from the airport, when we got to the room, there was like a switch in everyone, and we were all sharing happy stories, stories that happened while she weren't here, my cousin was joking like crazy but it was effective, and she was really laughing hard! it was like an unspoken agreement that no one is allowed to cry in front of her (when you have to cry, you have to go out of the room). I know all of us were very affected with what we're seeing, my mom and dad had very sad eyes despite joking around. But she made it through the airplane ride, and we got through the first night. As we plan to do so every night afterwards.
They finally got to board (again) 12nn the day after. The trip was ok but unfortunately, ate had another seizure (her third) 2 hours into the flight. it was just a mild one, but she went unconscious, only waking up very few times during the flight. One could just imagine how Ben must have been feeling during the entire flight. He was telling me that he was just praying that they get to land here safe and that's all he's asking for. And thank God they do make it safely and ate, even though that was such a difficult flight for her, she made it.
As I was expecting, my heart broke when I saw her. She was very weak in her wheel chair but you could see the light in her eyes. She was still talking during that time and she was saying hi to us and we were hugging her and welcoming her back. I really felt she was happy , and I was happy too, that we were together again albeit the circumstances but I know we'd be stronger together, and at the very least I have her here with me and I could still be on top of things especially for her upcoming treatments.
I was so proud of her after learning of what happened during the flight. I don't even know how she did it - imagine having a seizure 30000 feet in the air! She fought it with all she has, despite a cancelled schedule, a seizure, and a weak body, she endured it all just to return here, and it was amazing to see her smile again, and laugh with us. Ben said he thought he'd never see ate laugh like that again, but she did :) We brought her straight to the hospital from the airport, when we got to the room, there was like a switch in everyone, and we were all sharing happy stories, stories that happened while she weren't here, my cousin was joking like crazy but it was effective, and she was really laughing hard! it was like an unspoken agreement that no one is allowed to cry in front of her (when you have to cry, you have to go out of the room). I know all of us were very affected with what we're seeing, my mom and dad had very sad eyes despite joking around. But she made it through the airplane ride, and we got through the first night. As we plan to do so every night afterwards.
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