TONI Episode 82 | Maritoni Fernandez Recalls The Most Painful Part Of Her Journey Battling Cancer
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Yes! Kasi for the longest time, Marie Toni Fernandez.
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But this time you're blessed with a loving husband, happy family.
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Yes, you're enjoying your best life now.
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Pero hindi kasi, parang it was 2001.
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When everybody knew that you went through something challenging health-wise.
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2001, you were diagnosed with?
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Actually, pagka-give birth ko kay Lexi.
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Wala kang one year old yung baby?
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Wala pa. It was right after nga I gave birth.
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When I was strong enough to get, di ba I get postnatal check-ups?
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It was during one of those that I felt it.
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Nakapa ko siya sabi ko.
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Masakit noong hinahawakan niya?
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Para nga siyang pag nagganyan ka sa knuckle mo, parang ganyan.
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Yung walang feeling?
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Basta may blood lang?
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Tigas lang, maliit.
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Kasi inlaki lang ng fingernail ko dito sa pinky.
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Tapos eventually, noon tinanggal.
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Kasi inlaki na na pala noong thumbnail ko.
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Hindi, nakakapa mo lang sa labas.
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Kailan siya pinatanggal?
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So noong 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
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Hindi niyo pinapansin.
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Kasi nga sabi ng doctor, nothing to worry about.
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So sabi ko naman, okay, nothing to worry about.
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Baka naman buko lang, di ba?
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Ah, hindi na kayo naghanap ng second opinion?
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At saka hindi naman ako sinabihan na get a biopsy.
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So okay, kinalimutan ko.
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So okay, kinalimutan ko.
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Siyempre may anak akong maliit.
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Doon muna ako nakafocus.
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And then noong nagkasakit yung mom ko.
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Siya yung nagkasakit.
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She was already in Makati Med for magsi six months.
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Eh ako yung tagabantay.
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Alam mo yung out of boredom.
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Sabi ko, okay, magagawa ko dito.
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Sige na nga, pa-check up, blood work.
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Alam mo yung wala lang akong magawa.
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Ginawa ko x-ray, all of that.
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Kasi siyempre, on mom's bill.
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Di ba? So nandun na rin lang.
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Sabi ko, okay na to.
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Sige, magbabayad.
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So isasabay ko na.
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Then noong magsi-check out na siya,
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naalala ko lang, grab your results.
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So tumakbo lang ako.
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As in, it was in my duffel bag.
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I just grabbed all my results, stuffed it there.
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I didn't even look.
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Hindi ko tinignan.
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Sinaksa ko lang sa bag.
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Kasi nga ang focus kay mama.
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Then, a few weeks later,
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nag-decision yung family na
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pag second opinion siya sa states.
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When we got there, the doctor
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took one look at my mom
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well, we know it's not
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what they're telling you in Manila.
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Turns out talaga, it was just
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a bad case of walking pneumonia.
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So gamot lang, gumaling na siya.
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So while you're going through that,
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Never mong in-open?
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At that time, it was focus talaga kay mama.
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So kailan mo binuksan yung fight?
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Nung nandun na kami.
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Sa Amerika mo pa binuksan?
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Out of the blue lang,
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sabi ko sa tito ko,
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I felt a lump on my right breast
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several years ago, sabi ko.
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Pero sabi naman nila,
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Sabi niya sa akin,
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okay, it's probably nothing.
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They're probably right.
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Kasi bata ka pa nga.
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But in the US, we don't take chances.
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Yun na'ng sabi niya.
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Dun ko lang naalala
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that I have the results.
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And then I said to him,
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Tito, I have my results.
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Sabi niya, oh come, show it to me.
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Yung nakita ko right there.
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And then the next day,
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may appointment ako sa ospital.
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Ano yung nakasulat dun sa results?
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Meron silang tinatawag na
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yung danger level.
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Parang ganun yung box.
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level 5 yata or something.
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Basta mataas yung level.
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Hindi ko nga maintindihan kung ano yun.
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But when my tito saw it,
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he said, ah, biopsy na to.
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And then we did an open biopsy
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gumawa siya needle biopsy
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and then immediately within 24 hours,
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Tinanggal na nila.
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Kasi from the biopsy, nag-positive.
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Immediately open na yun.
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Nag-positive for?
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Positive yung cancer.
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Positive malignant type.
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Ay, narinig mo yung word na malignant?
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Hindi ko nga alam kung ano yun.
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Kasi, di ba, 30 lang ako.
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Alam ko lang malignant is bad.
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Hindi ko alam na cancer.
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Ah, hindi sinabi.
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Hindi rin sinabi kung anong stage.
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Because you don't find that out right away.
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You need to do a lymph node test.
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Na may pang-test.
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They removed all the,
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yung tinatawag nilang,
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kung ito yung lump,
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they have to remove around it
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to clear the area of cancer.
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And that's the part that is mahirap na.
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Kasi after that, waiting game.
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You have to wait and see if,
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yun, anong stage.
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Kung nag-spread na ba sa ibang areas ng body.
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Awan and just naman.
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No lymph nodes were positive.
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basically, the treatment to follow
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Not necessarily chemo.
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Yun yung napag-usapan.
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Parang, kasi 31 ka pa lang,
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pwedeng maging aggressive yung cancer.
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Kasi nga, you're young.
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But on the other side,
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mabilis ka mag-recover.
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Kasi nga, you will heal faster.
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okay, so what are the options?
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They would do, back then,
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bagong-bago pa lang yung lumpectomy.
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So, they're not going to remove the whole breast.
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Okay ko doon, diba?
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So, they'd save as much of the breast as you can.
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they would do radiation therapy
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ang sabi niya ganito,
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pag walang chemo,
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kasi negative naman yung lymph nodes,
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nasa 80% na of survival for five years.
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Kasi up to five years lang ang studies eh.
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There's no long-term studies back then.
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if you do not do the chemo,
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you have an 80% survival rate
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for up to five years.
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If you do the chemo,
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it goes up to 95.
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I'll take the extra 15%.
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Masakit ng chemo?
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Hindi masakit yung actual injection.
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Ang masakit yung side effects.
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Kasi chemo actually is a combination
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of different drugs.
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They are exclusively patterned
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doon sa sakit mo.
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sa type ng cancer mo.
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they will come up with a concoction
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specifically for you.
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So, yung ginawa nilang parang mix,
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yun yung para sa cancer ko,
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type ng cancer na meron ako.
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Sinabi na sa'yo kung anong stage yun?
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after the surgery of removing,
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meron pang next surgery
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natatanggali naman yung lymph nodes.
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Doon nalalaman kasi,
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ang lymph nodes pala,
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ang dami ko natutunan.
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O, diba? Kami din.
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Yung lymph nodes pala
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acts like the fuse box
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Ano yung balik sabihin?
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Kung balik sa machine, diba?
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meron fuse yun, diba?
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Pag pumutok yung fuse na yun,
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malala na yung problema.
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doon sa fuse box lang,
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ano yung tawag doon?
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Yung AVR or whatever,
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kung may voltage regulator ka,
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Hindi naman masisira yung TV,
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Yun yung parang guard,
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safety net ng TV mo,
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para hindi yung TV mo yung
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lymph nodes mo sa katawan,
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yung pala yung box.
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So, pag sira na doon,
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lumagpas na pumasok na yun sa
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Pero kung dito pa lang,
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wala pang positive.
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Dito lang sa parting to,
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hindi pa siya nag-travel sa main part
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So, big blessing, diba?
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Na pag sinabi nilang,
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oh, all your lymph nodes are negative.
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Ibig sabihin noon,
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Hindi pa siya nag-travel to
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other parts ng katawan mo.
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Then they gave me a protocol,
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dahil kahit negative lahat,
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baka may dormant, may tulog na
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I-chemo na natin to.
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Kano katagal yung chemo?
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ang bigay nila every three weeks,
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And ang protocol na binigay sa akin,
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ang pinili pa nila,
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yung pinaka-toxic na gamot,
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na talagang pinaka-strong.
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Kasi nga, bata pa ako.
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Ang pinaisip nila sa US,
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siguraduhin natin na
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patay lahat ng cancer cells.
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Ang binigay ba naman sa akin,
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pang 200 pound na Amerikano.
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So within four hours of the injection,
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parang akong gulay,
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hindi na ako makatayo sa kama.
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Masakit mo ang katawan mo?
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Ang feeling niya talaga is
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kung kailangan ko talagang
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i-describe in layman's terms, no?
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Yung para maintindihan.
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Hindi siya, ano eh,
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hindi siya pain per se.
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Para siyang closest na ma-describe ko,
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pagbubuntis na sobrang selhan.
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Alam mo yung sukanhan-suka,
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hindi ka ma-hihilos,
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masakit ang katawan.
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Pagsama mo yun sa pinaka-worst na trangkaso
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na naramdaman mo na.
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Gano'n ang feeling.
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hindi pa tapos yun.
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Yung worst hangover.
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Oh, so hindi mo talaga ma-ano?
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Hindi mo na alam yung feeling.
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Hindi mo na alam.
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masakit ang ulo mo,
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hindi magpunta sa banyo,
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hindi mo kaya kasi
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uwabali ka, diba?
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Gano'n ang feeling.
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Pati yung good cells mo,
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So ano yung good cells mo?
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Wala yung buwok mo?
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Yeah, walang-wala.
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As in, one day nagising ako
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pag ganyan ko sa hair ko,
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Oo, syempre, kinilabutan.
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matapang ako eh, Ton.
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I have a very strong personality.
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I'm a strong character.
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wala na ako sa magulang ko.
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You know what I mean?
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So, I had to build up.
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Kung bagay yung naniniwala ako
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na lahat na nangyari sa akin
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noong kabataan ko,
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na inalaw ni Lord.
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Pinirepare ka for this?
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So, noong nakita mo, wala?
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So, noong nakita ko,
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katabi ko pa yung anak ko,
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She was only six.
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Syempre, noong nakita niya,
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ganyan siya kagad sa akin.
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Diba, yung parang
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siya yung natatakot.
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So, I had to play it
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Siyempre, mami niya yun eh.
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So, ginawa akong game.
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How much it can take?
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You have to be quick.
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Kasi baka ma-ano siya.
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Baka ma-trauma siya.
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So, kailangan on the spot ka.
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Baka mag-worry siya ng,
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what's happening to my mom?
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Actually, ganun talaga.
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Sabi ko, no, no, no, no.
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It's gonna grow back.
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Emotion muna ng anak ko.
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ang nasa mind mo is,
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split second yung,
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Kasi tingin mo kagad
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yung nakaganyan sa'yo.
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parang sasagasaan ng kotse.
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Yung look na yun,
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So, yung automatic,
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No, no, no, no, no.
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this happened 20 years ago,
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but when you talk about it,
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it's not about me that I cried.
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It's the memory of
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And what she was feeling at that time.
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Hirap sa namin yun eh.
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pero yung makita mo.
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Ako kasi matapang ako, Todd.
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Lahat nga ng inutos ng doktor,
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Hinarap ko na eh.
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diba you go through the five stages of grief?
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Acceptance na ako eh.
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Pag sinabihan ka na cancer.
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Akala mo may death sentence na.
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When you're that age,
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cancer equals death.
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Kahit naman anong sabihin ng doktor sa'yo.
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ano naririnig mo pag sinabi cancer?
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Katapusan na ng buhay.
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Bago pa ako nagkasakit,
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Christiana na ako.
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wala na akong fear about kunsan ako pupunta.
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Pero yan ako six years old pa lang.
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Kailangan niya ng mommy.
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pag iniwan ko ba,
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yung magpapalaki sa kanya, okay.
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Will they love her the same way I loved her?
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Who will love her the same way that I do?
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Yun ang fear lagi ng mga lalang.
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And kahit na alam mo deep in your heart,
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will love her like you.
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rando ka na sa stage where
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you have to face it eh.
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You have to pick the next best
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And that's what hurts.
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In fact, one of my
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most, my most traumatic memories
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after a chemo session,
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nandun ako sa kama.
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I think second ko yun.
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Nandun siya sa dulo ng bed.
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Hindi ako makagalaw.
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Sabi niya sa akin,
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Mommy, are you dying?
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Okay, sabi niya sa akin.
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May sick nga lang,
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Diba pag sick ang mommy nila?
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Oo, anong sabi mo?
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Of course not, baby.
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Even though you don't know.
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So sabi niya nung sinabi mo,
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I'm not happy na ulit siya?
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Hindi siya naniniwala.
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Alam mo naman eh,
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you can see from their eyes
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Naramdaman niya siguro.
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Eh kasi nga connected kayo eh.
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Nafeel niya yung binagdadaanan mo.
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sa bed nagsnuggle,
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alam mo si Lexi ganyan eh,
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she's not like me,
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I'm outward ako eh.
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may pinagdadaanan.
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Ganoon siya mag-process.
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She keeps it to herself.
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Sometimes it's not healthy ha?
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But that's a side effect
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of having witnessed me eh.
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brave and strong.
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Ganoon ang side effect sa bata
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pag nakita nilang ganoon ng mami.
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every little thing she thinks,
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Like if she'll get
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Oh papatid ko siya.
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Di have brain cancer mami.
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Alam mo feeling ko na trauma siya.
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Kasi six years old siya eh.
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Kasalanan ko yun.
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Hindi, hindi mo naman kasalanan yun.
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at the time kasi I had a choice
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of not exposing her.
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Parang in hindsight now,
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there's a part of me that wishes
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na hindi ko siya inexpose.
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Kasi I see how she is now.
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during that time naman kasi
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hindi ako makasurvive.
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parte siya nung process
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kung paano nawala si mama.
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Ayoko naman maging yung
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suddenly out of the blue
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sabihin siya nawala na si mama.
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that was a very difficult
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Conscious decision.
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Natest ba yung faith mo
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when you were going through that?
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Yung faith ko natest
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na ayoko na siyang paniwalaan
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Yung faith ko natest
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all-knowing ka diba?
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kailangan ako ng unang ko.
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Pero yung for me,
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Lord, kung talagang ito yung will mo,
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bigyan mo naman akong peace
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Kasi kung iiwan ka yung baby ko,
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that you're thinking about.
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Will she be okay?
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Paramdam mo naman sa'kin
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that she's gonna be okay.
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You didn't get mad at him?
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You didn't question him?
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Never ako nag-galit ka,
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Never ko kinuestion
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I don't do drugs.
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Clean living ako.
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I'm doing my best.
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ang tinanong ko lang sa kanya is,
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ano yung purpose mo dito, Lord?
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ano yung endgame mo?
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And your plan is not to harm me.
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Pakita mo sa'kin.
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When you're going through the storm,
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hindi mo makikita.
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It's when the storm clears,
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then you will realize the purpose.
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And that wasn't until years later, Ton.
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yung purpose ng pinagdaanan?
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Yung purpose na-reveal is,
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nung nandito na ako,
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nung nandito na ako,
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friends would come to me,
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pa'no ka nagpagaling ganyan?
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I would drink supplements
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kasi second supplement
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that cut my recovery
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Pa'no mo nadiscover?
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Usong-usuyan ngayon.
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Ako nagdaling yan dito.
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Pa'no mo nadiscover yan sa barley?
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Nung may sakit ako,
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na binibigay nila
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nakakulong ako sa kwarto.
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Nilagyan nila ako
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Kasi kahit na sinong pumasok
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pwede akong mamatay.
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ang inalaw lang sakin
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Nandun ako sa room.
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Twenty-one days kang nandun,
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may level kasi yung
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white blood count
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na dapat ma-reach mo.
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wipe out lahat yun.
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You're running on negative
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white blood cells.
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Mabagsak ang immune system.
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Hindi lang bagsak.
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for explanation's sake.
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Ang normal na tao,
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may five na white blood cells
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Panglaban sa mga skin.
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hindi ka lang masi-zero,
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running on negative ka.
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So, pag kami pumasok na
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Wala na panlaban eh.
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Yung between chemos.
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pag nag-chemo ka,
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may natural ability yan
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na mag-produce ng white blood cells.
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Pero, it takes time.
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nung first chemo ko,
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Kasi, twenty-one yung next chemo.
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tsaka lang ako nag-reach
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na pwede na akong tumanggap
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kakarecover mo pala.
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yung white blood.
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Grabe yung journey.
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and pag hindi ka umabot
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dun sa threshold,
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day twenty-one na,
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eh negative pa yung,
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hindi mo pa nari-reach yung five.
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Five yung threshold,
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For the immune system.
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Nung immune system mo.
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Kasi pag hindi ka five,
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So, kailangan talaga
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within the twenty-one days,
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Eh anong gagawin mo
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para mabalik sa five?
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para tulungan ang sarili mo?
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Ginagawa mo naman lahat
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na nang sinasabi ng doctors.
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Doon ako nag-research.
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there has to be something
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na hindi more drugs,
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hindi more medicine.
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Hindi siya yung...
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Yung kulay green.
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maliit pa lang siya.
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Twenty to thirty centimeters pa lang siya
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So, na-harvest na.
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ang na-research mo?
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nung nakita mo yun?
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sinabihan ko yung
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family na nag-aalaga sa'kin
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na kabila niyo ako dito?
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patago pinasok sa'kin
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yung doctor ayaw,
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tuwing ibibigay sa'kin
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yung medicine ko,
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nakatulong talaga?
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bago nag-recover.
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Yung second chemo ko,
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Balit na agad yung immune system mo.
24:15.9
Dahil dun sa iniinom mo yun?
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ready na ready na ako
24:22.9
the fourth chemo.
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So, bumilis yung process.
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meron talagang something
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dun sa iniinom ko
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recover ng katawan.
24:32.9
Yun ang na-discover mo.
24:35.9
Yun ang na-realize mo,
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maybe this is the purpose
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why I had to go through this.
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So, ikaw ang nagdala
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ng barley sa Philippines.
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You discovered it
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while you were going
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through your chemo.
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And the reason why
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you can talk about
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it's from your own experience.
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So, throughout my journey,
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to keep me afloat.
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after my journey,
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my prayer was purpose.
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kung bakit mo hinayaan
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mangyari ito sa akin.
25:08.9
Ano yung dahilan?
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Ano yung gusto mong
25:13.9
from this experience?
25:16.9
Akala ko drugstores.
25:23.9
I came from church
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with my daughter.
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with my daughter,
25:34.9
As we were leaving,
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may lalaking lumapit sa akin.
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And sabi niya sa akin,
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kayo po ba si Miss Marie Toni
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So, I knew right away,
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Kasi normally, diba?
25:47.9
Kayo po ba si Marie Toni?
25:48.9
Pwede magpa-auto-vlog
25:49.9
or pwede magpa-photo.
25:53.9
Hawak niya yung laptop niya.
26:00.9
Sabi niya sa akin,
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I'm from this company po.
26:05.9
sell your barley.
26:08.9
sobrang, no, no, no.
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I'm not interested.
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okay na ako dun sa drugstores.
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Tingnan mo how the Lord works, ha?
26:17.9
Him and his family
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were also members
26:19.9
of the same church
26:23.9
That I attended at that time.
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Divine connections.
26:25.9
Divine connections.
26:27.9
Siya talaga ang nag-connect-connect
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ng lahat for you.
26:32.9
Kaya naniniwala ako na
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ang most important na prayer
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Lord, bigyan mo ko nito.
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gusto ko ng ganyan.
26:45.9
Ang pinaka-important na prayer
26:49.9
ano yung will mo sa buhay ko?
26:52.9
Saan mo ko gusto?
26:55.9
maraming pintuan eh, Ton.
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sa buhay na isang tao.
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Pero alin ba dyan
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yung galing sa Kanya?
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And paano mo malalaman?
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kung hindi galing sa'yo, Lord,
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Alam mo ba kung ilan na,
27:16.9
in my 35 years in showbiz,
27:19.9
alam mo ba kung ilan na
27:20.9
yung mga project na
27:24.9
biglang nawawala?
27:30.9
Hindi yun sa'yo eh.
27:32.9
align ka sa Kanya lagi.
27:33.9
Kailangan sabihin,
27:34.9
everyday ang prayer mo,
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your will be done.
27:38.9
So when people hear your story,
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what do you want them to see
27:43.9
I want them to see,
27:48.9
natural sa akin to, eto.
27:54.9
Pero when you get to know me,
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my heart is for Christ.
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I want them to know that,
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ang pinaka-importanting bagay
28:17.9
sa buhay ng isang tao
28:20.9
obedience to God.
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kaya naman natin,
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a lot of things you can attain
28:31.9
Kaya mong gawin ang paraan.
28:33.9
Kaya mong dayain.
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isa lang ang way na,
28:41.9
Na walang problema,
28:42.9
walang sakit ng ulo.
28:50.9
pahirapan ka muna talaga niya.
28:52.9
Kasi kailangan niyang,
28:53.9
i-prepare ang heart mo.
28:55.9
So pag may pinagdadaanan tayong masakit,
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mahirap sa panahon ngayon,
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dapat pala magpasalamat tayo
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because this is a preparation.
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For a bigger blessing that's coming.
29:05.9
What we have to do now,
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is to pass this test.
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Hindi lang natin nakikita pa.
29:12.9
Alam mo yung puzzle?
29:14.9
Yung jigsaw pa isa-isa.
29:15.9
Hindi mo nabubuo,
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hindi mo pa alam.
29:17.9
Lalo na kapag wala kang picture nung puzzle.
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Ang labo nung image.
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Pero pag tapos na,
29:26.9
Yun pala yung dahilan.
29:29.9
So ang gusto ko talagang
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yung take home nila
29:33.9
from our conversation,
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be patient with the Lord.
29:42.9
Huwag kang bibitiw.
29:44.9
Lalo na pag mahirap.
29:48.9
When it's easier to let go,
29:50.9
when it's easier to question Him,
29:52.9
when it's easier to say,
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Yun yung times na dapat na
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Faith is being sure of what you hope for
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and certain of what you do not see.
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testing of the faith.
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Testing of the faith is
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going through difficulties.
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And now it's your testimony.
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Yung test naging testimony.
