Letter

Edited version of my email to a friend:

I haven’t heard from you in awhile.

I've been busy myself lately. To start off, my dad got hospitalized and as I am writing this, I am currently here looking after him. Its Saturday night here and he'll be discharged on Monday. We've been here for almost 3 weeks now.

It started off as what we thought as Tuberculosis. He got hospitalized bec of that plus he lost his appetite and he had flu almost every other day. So we ended up bringing him in...

He has this wound in his big toe for almost 5 years now. Time and time again, we have asked him to let a doctor see it but he was hard headed. when he was confined my sister whispered to the doctor about his big toe wound... which ended up in a biopsy test. We later found out that he has nodes on his leg as well.

The result of the test was melanoma. A very aggressive cancer. It caught us by surprise. I wasn’t that worried knowing that God can heal him and if He's not gonna heal him, I still believe He is able. Its stage 3 Skin Cancer.

The hard part was the responsibility that comes with having a dad in the hospital with no mom around. My aunt and cousins helped us on that part. I was the eldest and my sister and brother is in the same position as I am -- working. Another problem that arose was when my aunts and uncle would rather not let my dad know about his situation. Of course, being the eldest, I have to be firm and chose to talk to my dad about it. I believe that God used this disease as a wake up call to him. Dad doesn’t practice any religion since I was little and doesn’t have any faith "practice"... This sickness allowed me to get closer to my dad like never before and also have him see and know who God really is in his life. I get to pray with him almost everyday. and now, now, he have Christ in his heart. He accepted Christ!

Time and time again, I see how God moves in situation and things that looks like impossible to man, but is for the glory of God.

I believe that dad's condition is nothing compared to what happened to him because of it.

As I write you this letter, it started as just an update stuff but I'll be posting this on my blog because I believe that everyone should know what God has done and is doing not just to me but also to my family.

I miss you and I can’t wait to see you! (Sooner than you expect!)

oh yeah, how are you? hehe

Love.

Erene

In all of these, God is in control.