Happy 3rd!

Three years. It's not an easy road that we have traveled but looking back what I always remember is that God has always been with us.

When I was diagnosed with LUPUS way back 2002, in midst of a budding career and a blooming love life with your daddy, I was put in a dark. To the point that I was asking God, 'why me?'. Mommy can't even walk properly and the beauty that I was used to started to vanish. And then, as fate would have it, in 2004, Mommy got operated on the lungs because of some fluid, later I developed pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lungs). It was a deadly disease and as Dr. Ino told me I am lucky to have survived the ordeal.

Because of the blood clot, I have to take maintenance medicine. Believe me, if I have a choice I would have not taken it. Since Dr. Ino warned me already that it would cause abnormalities if mommy got pregnant accidentally. He warns both Daddy and I about unplanned conception.

Our choices are not to many. But daddy being the man who have love me unconditionally, never look at me as a someone with limitations. For him, with or without LUPUS, I am the woman he love no matter what. He have a choice at that time. He can turn his back on me and leave. But now, he hasn't. Instead, he never gave up. We got married in 2005 and months later we discovered that we already have you.

I was worried, nervous, apprehensive. In my first ultrasound I was already preparing myself that there might be defects because of coumadin. But you know, God was so good. From the first ultrasound to the last, it showed a normal you. I don't know how many ultrasound I have to go through, but for those nine months ( I had numerous, on the last stretch, mommy can see you on a weekly basis through ultrasound) ..... I only one regret, that is worrying. I should have really taken daddy's advise... to have FAITH.

Yeah, FAITH. That is the one of the things that mommy and daddy have to cling unto.

Three years and here we are, we still have a long road but I thank God for giving you to me and daddy. You are a reminder how much God loves me and how much Daddy unconditionally love me. How lucky I am to have both daddy and you in my life.

I love you, be! Love you very much.

2007


2008

Happy 3rd birthday, Anevay!