052320206 sat

Off pogi at ganda

Php40 malabon

Php2k transfer to ganda.

Pogi nag gym

php200 kfc pogi

Php2k utang pogi mag sm with ate nya.

Mama punta sa patay with annie. Kapatid ni babe.

Reality of cancer in the Philippines

 REYALIDAD NG KANSER SA PILIPINAS 😔

👉Sina Kaye Abad at Doc Willie Ong ay kapwa piniling magpagamot ng cancer sa Singapore.

At habang para sa marami ay personal o medikal na desisyon ito, ipinapakita rin nito ang isang malaking katotohanan—

napakamahal ng cancer care.

Totoo talaga na kapag pumasok ang cancer sa buhay mo, hindi lang kalusugan ang naaapektuhan. Pati pera, pamilya, trabaho, at mga plano mo sa buhay.

Ang gamutan sa mga bansang tulad ng Singapore ay advanced, mabilis, at kumpleto—pero sobrang mahal . Kahit dito sa Pilipinas, lalo na sa mga pribadong ospital, kayang ubusin ng cancer treatment ang ipon ng isang pamilya.Kahit gaano pa karami ang kabuhayan, masasaid at masasaid ka. 

Kaya ang mga may kakayahan, may insurance, o may sapat na pera ay kadalasang pinipiling magpagamot sa abroad para sa mas mabilis at specialized na care.

Pero hindi lahat may ganoong pagkakataon.

Kaya ano ang nangyayari dito sa Pilipinas?

👉May mga government hospitals at cancer centers na nagbibigay ng libre o mas murang gamutan. Ginagabayan din ng mga doktor ang mga pasyente kung saan pupunta, saan hihingi ng tulong,ano ang proseso, at alin ang bagay sa kanilang kondisyon at budget.

👉Pero reality check…

Hindi porket libre ay madali na.

Maghihintay ka. Pipila ka na para bang nagmamakaawa ka at namamalimos para sa libreng gamot at kakaunting halaga para sa gamutan.Kailangan mong i-adjust ang buhay mo ayon sa sistema.

At para sa maraming pamilya, kahit ang “free option” ay sadyang napakahirap pa ring kayanin.

👉Sa kaso ko na nasa isang pribadong ospital kinailangan ko rin gumawa ng mabibigat na desisyon.

Kahit gustuhin ko ang libreng gamutan, hindi ito laging praktikal dahil:

• Kailangan ko pa ring magtrabaho kase solo parent ako 

• Ako lang din naman ang umaasikaso sa lahat ng pangangailangan 

.....kung kaya Kailangan ko ng agarang gamutan, hindi pwedeng ma-delay para gumaling agad ako so hindi pwede sa public hospital na napakahirap magpagamot. 

......sapagkat kahit may sakit hindi tumitigil ang aking responsibilidad . 

Kaya nagiging sobrang personal… at mabigat… ang bawat desisyon ko. 

👉At ito ang hindi laging nakikita ng mga tao—

Hinahati ng cancer ang realidad sa “may kakayahang magpagamot” at “walang kakayahan.”

At hindi rin maiiwasan na may magsasabi ng: “Marami namang libre, pwede naman doon magpagamot.”

Oo, totoo naman iyon. Malaking tulong ang mga libreng gamutan para sa maraming tao.

Pero ang totoo, magkakaiba ang sitwasyon ng bawat pasyente at bawat pamilya—sa oras, urgency, kakayahan, at responsibilidad.

Pero paano naman ang mga walang kakayahan?

Iyon ang masakit na katotohanan.

Oo nakikita ninyo ang tapang ko bilang isang warrior sa bawat post ko, 

Pero hindi nyo nakikita na sa kabila ng mga ngiti, at mga positibo kong pananaw may isang parte rin sakin pagkatao na lubhang nalulungkot at nadidismaya sa reyalidad ng kanser sa ating bansa😔

.... sapagkat isa ako sa nakakaranas ng hirap para laang sa mga libreng gamutan na iyan, para laang madugtungan ang buhay ko at hindi ko maiwang mag isa ang aking mga anak. 

Pero kahit ganoon ang realidad… 

Nananatili pa rin ang aking pananalig.

Nanatiling tapat ang Diyos. Kahit mahirap, kahit kulang, kahit hindi malinaw ang susunod na hakbang—patuloy pa rin Siyang nagbibigay, sa bawat patak ng aking mga luha habang sya'y aking kinakausap . 

Kaya anuman ang sitwasyon mo— gaano man ito kahirap , manatiling nakakapit. 

Huwag mawalan ng pag-asa. Huwag tumigil sa pananampalataya.

Dahil sa huli, ang cancer ay hindi lang tungkol sa ospital o pera…

Ito ay laban para sa buhay, kahit puno ng takot at walang kasiguraduhan ang bukas. Gaano man kahirap ang ating tinatahak na landas, gaano man kahirap ang ating mga sitwasyon na pinagdaraanan , tuloy pa rin ang ating laban mga ka- warrior. 

Dahil ang tunay na Warrior hindi kailanman sumusuko 💪💪💪

#chemotheraphyjourney 

#chemotheraphyeffects 

#cancerwarrior 

#cancerfighter 

#MotivationalCreator 

#everyone 

#followers 

#highlights

Isang mangga lang.

PINAUWI KO SILA DAHIL SA MANGGA.

Ngayon lang to actually, fresh pa to sa isip ko and I just have to share it.

I decided to commute today, and I went to LRT Sucat station, and napansin ko na sila agad.

Dalawang matanda. Around 70 to 80 years old siguro, both of them. 

Walang pwesto and nakatayo lang sa tabi ng daan, nakasupot ang mga panindang mangga, hoping na may makapansin at bumili sa kanila.

Tanghali pa noon. Bilad sila sa init.

Naisip ko agad, ilang oras na kaya sila nandoon?

So pumunta muna ako sa pupuntahan ko.

Pero pag-uwi ko, nandoon pa rin sila.

Same spot. Same faces. Halos hindi pa nababawasan ang mangga nila.

Nilagpasan ko muna sila, pero narinig ko, 

“bili na po kayo para makauwi na po kami…”

And I just couldn’t leave without doing something.

So nag moonwalk ako pabalik sa kanila, in slo-mo na para bang main character 🤣, jk!

Binili ko na lahat ng mangga nila.

Nagulat sila, genuinely nagpasalamat.

Makakauwi na sila! And that honestly made my day already.

So naglakad na ako papunta sa sakayan ng shuttle, bitbit mga mangga. Haha. 

Nagcrave din naman ako ng mango ensalada with bagoong and kamatis,😋 kaya timing rin talaga! 

Habang naghihintay ng shuttle, may mga lumapit sa akin na mga bata.

Street kids. Nakatira talaga sa kalsada, literal.

Maruruming damit pero ang liwanag ng mga mata nila, grabe.

Nakita kasi nila agad ang hawak ko.

“Kuya, pwede po bang humingi ng mangga?”

Binigyan ko sila agad.

And their reaction, I’m not exaggerating ah…

napatakbo sila, napatalon sa saya, nag-thank you nang paulit-ulit. 

Yung klase ng saya na raw talaga, no filter.

Kinain nila agad sa harap ko habang nakangiti.

Pero yung pinaka-nagpahinto sa akin?

Hindi sila nanghingi ng sobra.

Tig-iisa lang sila. Kahit kitang-kita na gusto pa nila. Kahit bata pa sila at madali lang sanang manghingi ng higit pa.

These kids who had almost nothing, and yet they weren’t greedy about it.

That got me.

While, nakita ko yung pinakamaliit sa kanila, mga 2 to 3 years old siguro, sa sobrang tuwa sa mangga naitapon niya sa kalsada.

Nakita ko from a distance.

Tumigil siya at napatulala sa manggang nasa gitna ng kalsada. Hindi niya maabot kasi delikado.

I’m about to go there and pick it up para sa kanya when suddenly may lalaking dumaan na naka-bisikleta.

Tumigil siya. Bumaba sa bisikleta. Iniabot ang mangga sa bata. Ngumiti. At nagpatuloy na parang walang nangyari.

Napa silent clap ako. Haha. Literal. Sa gilid ng daan. I just witnessed a good deed! :))

Today, I feel blessed to see this.

Dalawang matanda na nakauwi na dahil sa mangga.

Mga batang tumalon sa saya dahil sa isang simpleng prutas.

Isang lalaking tumigil para sa isang batang hindi niya kilala.

At ako, umuwi na may galak sa puso.

You know, I saw this vlog ni Ivana Alawi this morning. 

Hakot grocery. Bigay ng iPhone. Basta tulong sa kung sino-sino. Grabe ang nagagawa niya.

I love her for doing that, such an inspiration!

And I thought, hindi kailangang maging Ivana para makagawa tayo ng kabutihan.

Hindi kailangang malaki.

Hindi kailangang may budget.

Isang mangga lang. Isang saglit ng oras mo, can make a change.

Sobrang daming tao ngayon na nangangailangan ng kahit isang sandali ng kabutihan. 

Isang ngiti. Isang “okay ka lang?” Isang pakiramdam na may nagmamalasakit.

Goodness is still very much alive in this world.

Take all the chances to do good.

Kahit maliit. Kahit walang nakakakita.

Dahil minsan, isang mangga lang sapat na para makapagpangiti ng iba. :))

And we can become God’s representative in this unfair world.

#Kindness #GoodVibesOnly #FilipinoSpirit #PayItForward #Gratitude #KindnessIsContagious

05222026 fri happy 57th bday mama.

Happy bday 57th mama.

Php10 pandesal

Php12+12+30 pamasahe.

Php3k regalo kay mama

10:40am umalis ng bahay

11:15am dumating uphmc

11:53am bpi panapaan

Php12+14+13+13+14+30 pamasahe

Php10k tseke get at uphmc and deposit at bpi.

12:10nn sa bahay na.

Celebrate at Tablo restaurant bf paranaque.

Php420 grab home to tablo 

Php125 5x25 tablo to alabang zapote rd.

Php302 petron talon 4 to home.

Php4237.32 = Php3890 tablo gathering feast set + Php347.32 service charge  (10%)

3473.21 VATABLE

416.79 VAT amount

347.32 service charge (10%) of VATABLE

4237.32 Total amount due

Php695.36 = Php260 iced sea salt spanish latte + Php625 tablo sisig + php63.21 sc 10%

less 94.82+ 158.04

05212026 thu

Di nakadumi

Happy bday konsi Bhoy

Php10 pandesal

Php40 palabok

Php70 bicol express

Office ganda at pogi

Php12+12+30 pamasahe

Php200 baon pogi.

Php50 miryenda

Php30 pamasahe

Php220 thumbler 2x

Ano ang ginawa mo sa iba?

“HINDI DIPLOMA ANG SUKATAN NG HALAGA” (Not a political issue.)

“NARINIG KO ANG KWENTO AT TAWANAN NILA: 

“Walang binatbag ang TV host/comedian sa abogado na galing sa kilalang school.”  

Bakit pag wala kang “maayos na pinag-aralan,” parang maliit ka na agad sa mata ng iba?

Ang buhay ay hindi sinusukat sa kung anong kurso o diploma na meron ka. Hindi sa titulo sa harap ng pangalan mo. PARA SA AKIN, ANG BUHAY AY SINUSUKAT SA NAGAWA MONG MABUTI SA IBA AT SA MGA NAIAMBAG MO SA KAPWA.

Paano kung yung hindi abogado, hindi nagtapos sa kilalang eskwelahan, pero mas marami siyang nagawang batas, mas marami siyang nabigyang tulong, mas marami siyang nabago buhay?

SASABIHIN MO PA RIN BA NA MAS MAHUSAY ANG ABOGADO?

Balikan natin ang kasaysayan:

Jose Rizal – Doktor at manunulat, pero hindi siya naging pulitiko. Ang pluma niya ang gumising sa bayan. Hindi diploma ang nagpalaya sa atin, kundi konsensya at tapang.

Corazon Aquino – Hindi siya abogado. Hindi siya pulitiko bago ang 1986. Pero siya ang naging simbolo ng People Power. Ang moralidad at malasakit niya ang nagpatalsik ng diktadura.

Efren Peñaflorida – Hindi siya mayaman, hindi siya galing sa Ivy League. Pero dahil sa “Pushcart Classroom” niya, libu-libong batang kalye ang nakapag-aral. Ginawa siyang CNN Hero of the Year.

Si Nanay na naglalako ng gulay – Walang degree, pero pinapaaral niya ang 3 anak para maging guro, nurse, at pulis. Ilan ba ang buhay na binago niya? Mas marami pa kaysa sa abogado na nakaupo lang sa opisina.

ANG PUNTO DITO, MORALIDAD AT IMPACT ANG SUKATAN, HINDI TITULO o PERSONAL BEST MO.

Ang abogado na walang malasakit, abogado lang sa papel. Ang ordinaryong tao na may puso sa kapwa, siya ang tunay na bayani ng lipunan.

Kaya sa susunod na may mangliit sa iyo dahil wala kang “maayos na pinag-aralan,” tandaan mo: Ang tunay na karangalan ay nasa gawa, hindi sa grado. Nasa puso, hindi sa diploma.

ANG TANONG HINDI, “Saan ka nagtapos?”  

ANG TANONG AY, “Ano ang ginawa mo para sa iba?” -JUKNOWSprudence

Magpaka tatag ka.

I-share ko lang kasi hindi mawala sa isip ko yung babaeng nakasabay namin kanina sa Chinese General Hospital.

May babae, Dumating siya around 10:30 AM, tapos sabi ng nurse, late na raw siya dahil 8–9 AM lang ang clinic. Hindi na raw tumatanggap si doc kapag puno na ang patients. Pero nakiusap pa rin siya, at buti na lang pinayagan siyang maghintay.

Umupo siya malapit sa akin, at narinig ko siyang nagsabi na sana masingit siya kasi gusto na niyang matapos ang check-up niya. Isang buwan na raw siyang hindi nakakapasok sa work, at pinayuhan na lang daw siya ng HR nila na mag-resign muna at mag-focus sa pagpapagamot.

Maya-maya, nag-announce ang nurse na male-late si doc at 2 PM pa darating, kaya may ibang umuwi na. Siya, willing maghintay kaya naisingit.

Pagbalik namin galing lunch, nagsimula na si doc at nauna pa siyang matingnan. Hindi ko sinasadyang marinig, pero dahil magkasunod sila ni Papa, narinig ko ang sinabi ni doc sa kanya:

“Sorry kung nabigla kita.”

Tapos doon ko narinig yung iyak niya.

Girl: “Hindi ko po alam kung paano ko sasabihin sa pamilya ko…” 🥺

Doon ko nalaman na may cancer siya.

Ang tagal niya sa loob, parang hindi niya agad matanggap ang result. Naririnig ko si doc na pinapakalma siya, sinasabihan na huwag masyadong mag-overthink at sa parents niya muna sabihin bago sa mga anak niya.

Hindi ko mapigilang madala sa emotions niya. Halos ka-age lang q lang siya, 41. Bigla akong natakot at na-anxious din. First time kong makarinig ng ganoong eksena nang personal. Hindi ko man nakita ang mukha niya dahil may kurtina, pero rinig na rinig ko ang iyak niya.

Pagtapos namin, nadatnan pa rin namin siyang nakaupo sa labas ng hospital, maga ang mata at may kausap sa phone. Mag-isa lang siya kanina—at naisip ko, ang bigat tumanggap ng ganoong balita nang walang kasama.

Gusto ko sana siyang lapitan at i-comfort, pero nahiya ako baka isipin niya feeling close ako.

Ate, kung sino ka man, ipinagdarasal kita. Sana malagpasan mo ito at dumating ang araw na maging cancer-free ka. Pakatatag ka. 🙏🏻💛

05202026 wed nakadumi happy church wedding anniversary

Mama nakadumi

Php18 pandesal

Office ganda at pogi

Php12+12+30 pamasahe

Php150 baon pogi

Nene paid maynilad and meralco

Php1350 LPG Regasco 11kg

Php70 2x35 mineral water

Php347+39 Mama grab pasay 5 star terminal to home

3 signos

3 Signs Na Mali Ang Pagbabasa ng Iyong TSH Results 

Alam mo ba na kahit may hawak kang TSH result, posibleng hindi pa rin nakukuha ang buong picture ng iyong thyroid health? Marami sa ating mga thyroid warriors ang nakakaranas nito — "normal" daw ang TSH pero pakiramdam mo ay hindi ka pa rin okay. 

Narito ang 3 signs na posibleng misread ang iyong TSH:

1. "Normal" ang sabi ng doctor mo, pero pagod ka pa rin palagi 😴

Ang TSH "normal range" sa maraming lab ay 0.5 to 4.5 — pero para sa maraming thyroid patients, ang optimal range ay mas maiksi pa. Kung nasa taas ng normal ka pero symptomatic ka pa rin, worth discussing ito sa iyong doctor. Hindi sapat ang TSH alone para malaman kung okay na ang thyroid mo.

2. T3 at T4 hindi sinusuri, TSH lang 📋

Ang TSH ay nagmumula sa iyong pituitary gland — hindi direkta sa thyroid. Kaya pwedeng "normal" ang TSH mo pero mababa pa rin ang iyong actual thyroid hormones. Tanungin ang iyong doctor — "Puwede po bang isama ang Free T3 at Free T4 sa test ko?"

3. Hindi tinitingnan ang iyong symptoms, numbers lang 🔢

Ikaw ay hindi isang numero. Kung consistently sinasabi ng iyong lab na okay ka pero may hair loss ka pa rin, malamig ka palagi, tumataba kahit dinadiet mo — that is a red flag na kailangang pag-usapan nang mas malalim.

💡 Tandaan: Ang TSH ay isang tool lamang — hindi ito ang buong kwento ng iyong thyroid health. Deserve mo ang isang doctor na nakikinig hindi lang sa iyong results, kundi sa iyong nararamdaman din.

Narerelate ka ba sa isa sa mga ito? I-comment ang numero below — gusto kong malaman kung gaano karami sa atin ang nakakaranas nito. 👇

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#ThyroidHealth #ThyroidWarrior #TSH #ThyroidPH #ThyroidCare #HypothyroidismAwareness #HashimotosDisease #ThyroidEducation

05192026 tue nakadumi

Php12 pandesal

Php200 baon pogi

Php12+12+30 pamasahe

Ganda at pogi office.

Interview ganda

Mama still at cabanatuan

Php50 pamasahe mercury puregold bacoor

Php144 10x18 180-36 ezemibe 10mg Ezitin

Php Atorvastatin

Php277.50 30x9.25 Calvin plus

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Php180 bewell

Php70+14+30 pamasahe sir

Php30 pamasahe.

Onios skin... Sumagot ng tama.

Inferior Secretary Jonvic Remulla just proved he knows exactly how to change a subject.

After Trillanes called him "very incompetent" for failing to arrest Bato dela Rosa — a senator with an ICC warrant who slipped out of the Senate at 2 a.m. — Remulla's response had nothing to do with Bato. Nothing to do with the ICC. Nothing to do with the escape.

He went straight to Trillanes' election record.

"There's a reason why Trillanes lost 3 elections in a row. Nauuna yabang kaysa mag-isip," Remulla said.

That's it. That's the answer from the man running the DILG.

THE WHATABOUTISM IS THE TELL

Someone asks you why a fugitive walked out of the Senate in the middle of the night on your watch. And you answer with a vote count from past elections.

The escape happened. No amount of Trillanes slander undoes that.

Remulla also said, "I don't respond to losers."

But he did respond. At length. Publicly. Twice.

If you truly don't respond to losers, you go back to work. You don't hold a press conference to prove the loser is a loser. The fact that you responded at all tells you exactly how deep that criticism landed.

THE SHALLOWNESS IS THE PROBLEM

The critique Trillanes raised was specific. DILG had a 10,000-man task force on standby. The NBI tried to serve the warrant. Bato had protective custody. And still — he walked.

Law enforcement either works or it doesn’t. Last Tuesday, it didn’t.

Remulla's entire counter? You lost elections. Puro salita.

A cabinet secretary is supposed to answer for his department. Not for the other guy's political record. Bringing up Trillanes' losses instead of explaining how Bato walked free is the kind of non-answer you'd expect from a comment section troll, not the head of the DILG.

You're not a troll account, Jonvic. You're supposed to be a secretary.

THE ONION SKIN

Here's the thing about thin-skinned responses — they reveal more than they hide.

If Remulla was solid in his position, Trillanes' criticisms wouldn't require two separate clapbacks in the same week. You address the question or you don't. But "I don't respond to losers" followed immediately by a response is the political equivalent of saying "I'm not angry" while your forehead vein is pulsing.

Trillanes himself said he holds "zero expectations" from Remulla. That he's "suko na."

That's not an attack. That's a man who has already written you off.

And instead of proving him wrong by doing the job, the inferior secretary chose to prove him right — by performing outrage instead of governance.

Bato is still out there. The warrant is still unserved. And the DILG chief is busy counting election losses from years ago.

Kung ganyan pa rin ang tugon, maybe Trillanes is right to have zero expectations.

10 hormones

10 Hormones na Dapat Mong Kilalanin para sa Healthy na Katawan!

 🧬✨Napansin mo ba minsan na bigla ka na lang kinakabahan, biglang nanghihina, o kaya naman ay biglang sumasaya nang walang dahilan? 🤔 Hindi lang 'yan basta emosyon—bunga 'yan ng mga hormones sa ating katawan!Ang mga hormones ay nagsisilbing mga "chemical messengers" ✉️ na nagdidikta sa ating gutom, stress, tulog, at pangkalahatang kalusugan. 

Upang mas maunawaan kung paano gumagana ang iyong katawan, alamin natin ang 10 Must-Know Hormones at ang kanilang mga sikreto. 🔐🩸 Ang mga Tagapangasiwa ng Blood Sugar

1. Insulin (Ang Tagapababa ng Asukal) 📉Saan galing: Pancreas (Beta cells) 🧪Ano ang gawa nito: Tinutulungan nito ang asukal (glucose) 🍬 na makapasok sa ating mga cells upang maging enerhiya ⚡. Binababaan nito ang level ng asukal sa dugo matapos nating kumain.🚨 Babala: Kapag kulang ang insulin o hindi ito nagagamit ng tama, maaari itong mauwi sa Diabetes mellitus.

2. Glucagon (Ang Tagataas ng Asukal) 📈Saan galing: Pancreas (Alpha cells) 🧪Ano ang gawa nito: Kabaligtaran ito ng insulin. Kapag ikaw ay nag-aayuno (fasting) o nagugutom 🍽️, itinataas nito ang iyong blood sugar sa pamamagitan ng pagtunaw ng nakaimbak na asukal sa atay (liver). Pinoprotektahan ka nito laban sa nakakahilong hypoglycemia (mababang asukal).⚡ Ang mga Kasangga sa Stress at Emergency

3. Adrenaline / Epinephrine (Ang "Fight or Flight" Hormone) 🏃‍♂️💨Saan galing: Adrenal glands (medulla) 🩺Ano ang gawa nito: Ito ang dahilan kung bakit bumibilis ang tibok ng iyong puso ❤️‍🔥 kapag nagulat, natakot, o nasa peligro. Pinapalaki nito ang daanan ng hangin sa baga 🫁 at nagbibigay ng agarang lakas upang makaligtas ka sa emergency.

4. Cortisol (Ang Long-Term Stress Hormone) 🤯☠️Saan galing: Adrenal glands (cortex) 🧠Ano ang gawa nito: Kung ang adrenaline ay para sa biglaang gulat, ang cortisol naman ang namamahala sa pangmatagalang stress. Tinutulungan nito ang katawan na gumamit ng fats at proteins 🥩, at pinapakalma ang pamamaga (inflammation).🚨 Babala: Ang palagiang mataas na cortisol dahil sa talamak (chronic) na stress ay maaaring magdulot ng Cushing syndrome.🦴 Ang mga Bantay sa Buto at Calcium

5. Parathyroid Hormone / PTH (Tagataas ng Calcium) 🦴⬆️Saan galing: Parathyroid glands 🔍Ano ang gawa nito: Itinataas nito ang calcium sa dugo sa pamamagitan ng pagkuha nito mula sa mga buto at pagbawas sa calcium na nailalabas sa ihi 🚽. Mahalaga ito para sa maayos na galaw ng muscles 💪 at nerves.

6. Calcitonin (Tagapababa ng Calcium) 🦴⬇️Saan galing: Thyroid gland (C-cells) 🦋Ano ang gawa nito: Kakampi ng iyong mga buto, binababaan nito ang calcium sa dugo at ibinabalik o pinapanatili ang calcium sa loob ng mga buto 🦴 upang manatili itong matitibay at malakas.💧 Ang mga Tagapamahala ng Tubig at Pagmamahal

7. ADH / Antidiuretic Hormone (Ang Water Guard) 🚰🛡️Saan galing: Hypothalamus (ngunit inilalabas ng Posterior Pituitary gland) 🧠Ano ang gawa nito: Pinapanatili nito ang tamang dami ng tubig sa katawan sa pamamagitan ng pag-utos sa mga bato (kidneys) na bawasan ang inilalabas na ihi 💧.🚨 Babala: Ang kakulangan sa hormone na ito ay nagiging sanhi ng Diabetes insipidus (madalas na pag-ihi at matinding pagkauhaw 🥵).

8. Oxytocin (Ang "Love & Bonding" Hormone) ❤️👶Saan galing: Hypothalamus (ngunit inilalabas ng Posterior Pituitary gland) 🧠Ano ang gawa nito: Ito ang nagpapasimula ng contraction ng matris tuwing nanganganak ang isang ina 🤰 at tumutulong sa pagdaloy ng gatas habang nagpapasuso 🤱. Bukod dito, ito rin ang nagpapatatag ng emosyonal na koneksyon, tiwala, at pagmamahalan 💕.🥦 Ang para sa Nutrisyon at Metabolismo

9. Prolactin (Ang Tagagawa ng Gatas) 🍼🍼Saan galing: Anterior pituitary 🧠Ano ang gawa nito: Ang pangunahing trabaho nito ay pasiglahin ang produksyon ng gatas 🥛 sa dibdib ng ina pagkatapos manganak para sa nutrisyon ng sanggol 👶.

10. Thyroxine (T4) at Triiodothyronine (T3) (Ang Engine ng Katawan) ⚙️🔥Saan galing: Thyroid gland 🦋Ano ang gawa nito: Ito ang namamahala sa iyong metabolism o kung gaano kabilis magsunog ng enerhiya ang iyong katawan. Kontrolado nito ang tibok ng puso ❤️, temperatura ng katawan 🌡️, at paglaki ng utak.🚨 Babala: Kapag sumobra ang hormone na ito, maaari kang magkaroon ng Hyperthyroidism (mabilis na tibok ng puso at biglaang pagbawas ng timbang 📉).

🎯 Bakit Mahalaga na Alam Natin Ito?Ang mga hormones ay may malaking papel sa pagpapanatili ng balanse ng ating katawan o tinatawag na homeostasis. 

Sila ang may kontrol sa:🥦 Metabolismo at Timbang: Kung paano ginagamit ng katawan ang pagkain.🌱 Paglaki at Reproduction: Pag-unlad ng katawan mula pagkabata hanggang pagtanda.⚖️ 

Pamamahala ng Stress: Paano tayo umaangkop sa mga pagsubok sa buhay.🧠 Mental Health: Ang emosyon at mood natin araw-araw.🦴 Tibay ng Buto: Pagpapanatili ng tamang mineral sa katawan.

Tandaan: Ang ating katawan ay parang isang malaking orchestra 🎻, at ang mga hormones ang mga musikero 🎷. Kapag wala sa tono ang isa, apektado ang buong kanta! Kaya naman mahalagang alagaan ang kalusugan sa pamamagitan ng tamang pagkain 🍎, sapat na tulog 😴, at pag-iwas sa labis na stress! 🧘‍♂️⚠️ 

Disclaimer: Ang impormasyong ito ay para sa layuning pang-edukasyon lamang at hindi dapat gamiting kapalit ng propesyonal na medikal na payo, diagnosis, o paggagamot ng iyong doktor.

#HealthAwarenessPH #healthcare #health #healthylifestyle

My life after TT.

 “My Life After Losing My Whole Thyroid A Real Testimony”

I never imagined that one day, I would hear the words that would change my life forever thyroid cancer. I was scared. I cried. I asked God, “Why me?” There were so many fears in my heart, so many questions I couldn’t answer.

The day of my surgery came a total thyroidectomy. I tried to be strong, but deep inside, I was terrified. Terrified of the anesthesia, terrified of the pain, terrified of waking up and knowing that a part of me was gone forever.

When I woke up after surgery, everything felt different. My neck hurt, my voice felt weak, and I looked at the scar on my neck with tears in my eyes. I remember silently asking myself, “Will life ever be normal again?”

Healing was not easy.

There were days I felt weak and exhausted. Days when anxiety would suddenly hit me. Days when I would overthink every pain in my body and wonder if everything was okay. There were nights I cried silently because I felt tired physically and emotionally. Sometimes I smiled in front of people, but deep inside, I was still hurting and scared.

Taking medicine every single day became my new normal. Learning to live without a thyroid was something I never expected at my age. It was hard accepting that life changed so suddenly.

But through all the pain, fear, and uncertainty… God never left me.

When I felt like giving up, He gave me strength. When I was crying silently, He comforted my heart. When I felt lost, He reminded me that I was still alive for a reason.

And slowly… I started healing.

I learned that my scar is not something to hide it is proof that I survived. Proof that I fought one of the hardest battles of my life and I’m still here.

Now, I may not be the same person I was before surgery… but maybe that’s okay.

Because this journey made me stronger, softer, more grateful, and closer to God.

If you are going through the same battle, I want you to know this:

You are stronger than you think. Healing takes time. Cry if you need to. Rest when you’re tired. Trust God through the process. One day, you will look back and realize you survived something that once tried to break you.

I lost my thyroid, but I didn’t lose myself.

I survived. I am healing. And I still believe God has a beautiful plan for my life. 🤍🙏

#totalthyroidectomy

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#thyroidwarrior 

#ThyroidSurgery 

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#highlightseveryone

Tsh

 TSH vs T4 vs T3: Understanding Your Thyroid Health

Your thyroid hormones play a major role in controlling energy, metabolism, mood, weight, and even heart rate.

• TSH helps regulate thyroid hormone production

• T4 acts as the stored hormone in the body

• T3 is the active hormone that directly impacts how your body functions

An imbalance in these hormones may lead to symptoms like fatigue, weight gain, anxiety, hair loss, sweating, cold intolerance, or restlessness. Understanding your thyroid test results can help you take better control of your health and seek timely medical advice.

Always remember: thyroid reports should be interpreted along with symptoms and medical history by a qualified healthcare professional.

Disclaimer: This content is for educational awareness only and should not be considered medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

#health #healthtips #healthy #thyroid #thyroidhealth

I made it.

 WHAT REALLY HAPPENS TO THE BODY DURING GENERAL ANESTHESIA? 😨💉

Especially for people who underwent a thyroid surgery like a total thyroidectomy… 🦋

Many think surgery is just “falling asleep” while doctors operate.

But in reality…

While you are unconscious, an entire medical team is watching over every heartbeat, every breath, and every second of your life. 🥹

General anesthesia is not ordinary sleep.

It is a carefully controlled medical state where powerful medicines temporarily affect the brain, nerves, muscles, and breathing so the surgery can be done safely and painlessly.

Within seconds after anesthesia is given…

🧠 Your brain slowly loses awareness

😴 You become unconscious

💢 You no longer feel pain

🫁 Your breathing is supported and monitored

💓 Your heart rate and oxygen are watched continuously

💤 Your body enters a controlled sleep-like state

During a total thyroidectomy, doctors carefully remove the thyroid gland while monitoring:

✔️ Heart rate

✔️ Oxygen level

✔️ Blood pressure

✔️ Breathing

✔️ Body response to anesthesia

And while you are asleep…

You don’t know how many hours have passed.

You don’t hear the machines.

You don’t feel the operation.

You completely surrender control of your body…

Yet your body keeps fighting to survive. ❤️

Then suddenly…

You wake up.

Maybe your throat feels sore from the breathing tube.

Maybe your neck feels tight and painful.

Maybe your voice sounds weak or different.

And then you realize…

“I made it… I survived.” 🙏🥹

Behind every thyroidectomy scar is a story of fear, courage, prayers, healing, and survival. 🤍

A reminder that even during our weakest moments… we were stronger than we thought.

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Oskar Schindler 1200 jews

 October 9, 1974.

Oskar Schindler collapsed on a street in Hildesheim at sixty-six years old — overweight, a heavy drinker, and a chain smoker. By the time the ambulance reached the hospital, heart failure had already ended his life. When authorities searched his tiny apartment in Frankfurt, they found almost nothing: unpaid bills, no savings, no assets, only letters from Israel containing money. For fifteen years, the Schindlerjuden — the 1,200 Jews whose lives he saved during the Holocaust — had been keeping him alive. They paid his rent, bought his food, and sent monthly checks because the man who had once been a wealthy Nazi war profiteer had spent everything he owned bribing Nazis to save human beings.

But in 1939, Schindler was no hero. Born in 1908 in Zwittau, he was a Nazi Party member, an opportunist, a womanizer, and a drunk who had drifted through failed jobs and shady schemes. He even worked as a spy for the Abwehr, gathering intelligence in Czechoslovakia before the war. Arrested for espionage in 1938 and sentenced to death, he escaped execution only after Germany annexed the Sudetenland following the Munich Agreement. When Germany invaded Poland, Schindler saw opportunity. He moved to Kraków and acquired a Jewish-owned enamelware factory called Emalia through Nazi “Aryanization.” Using cheap Jewish labor from the Kraków ghetto, he quickly became rich manufacturing goods for the German military.

At first, Schindler behaved like every other profiteer. He partied with SS officers, bribed officials, dealt on the black market, lived luxuriously, and exploited Jewish labor for profit while his quiet wife, Emilie Schindler, stayed in the background. But his Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, slowly influenced him to hire more Jews not just for profit, but to protect them. Jews employed in factories vital to the war effort were less likely to be deported to death camps. Then came March 1943, when the Kraków ghetto was liquidated. Watching from horseback above the city, Schindler saw SS troops shooting civilians, ripping children from parents, and murdering innocent people in the streets. Something changed inside him. Later he would say, “I had to help. I had no choice.”

By 1943, the nearby Płaszów concentration camp was under the command of Amon Göth, a sadist known for randomly shooting prisoners from his balcony. Schindler befriended Göth, drank with him, flattered him, and bribed him — all to secure protection for his workers. He convinced Göth to allow a subcamp at Emalia where Jewish workers could live separately from Płaszów’s horrors. There, workers received food Schindler bought on the black market with his own money, escaped random executions, and practiced religion in relative safety. Day after day, Schindler spent enormous sums bribing Nazi officials with liquor, jewelry, and cash while secretly acquiring food and medicine to keep his workers alive.

In 1944, as the Soviet army advanced, the SS began shutting down camps and deporting prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp for extermination. Schindler’s factory was scheduled to close. Warned by his Jewish secretary, Mietek Pemper, Schindler decided to move the factory to Brünnlitz in the Sudetenland and take his workers with him. To do that, he needed a list of “essential workers.” Pemper and Jewish Ghetto Police officer Marcel Goldberg helped compile the names: 1,200 men, women, children, elderly people, and disabled individuals falsely labeled as skilled munitions workers. It was a lie that saved 1,200 lives. When the women’s train was mistakenly diverted to Auschwitz, Schindler personally traveled there, bribed officials, argued with SS officers, and brought them back.

At the Brünnlitz factory, almost no usable ammunition was ever produced. When Nazi authorities questioned the lack of output, Schindler bought finished munitions on the black market and presented them as factory-made while pouring the rest of his fortune into food, medicine, and survival for his workers. In January 1945, a train carrying 120 Jewish prisoners arrived after seven freezing days sealed in cattle cars without food or water. Thirteen had frozen to death. While the SS planned to send the survivors to Auschwitz, Emilie Schindler stepped forward. She and Oskar convinced officials to keep the prisoners, and Emilie personally nursed 107 survivors back to health. By the end of the war in May 1945, every penny Schindler owned was gone.

On May 9, 1945, Schindler told his workers, “The war is over. You are free.” Then he fled, knowing that as a former Nazi industrialist he could face prosecution. Several Schindlerjuden helped him escape and provided letters testifying to what he had done. But heroism did not rebuild his life. Oskar and Emilie moved to Argentina in 1949 and failed at farming nutria for fur. Bankrupt by 1958, Schindler abandoned Emilie and returned to Germany alone. A cement business failed too. By 1961 he was broke, divorced, and living in a tiny Frankfurt apartment. That same year, he visited Israel for the first time, where the Schindlerjuden welcomed him like family. From then until his death, they financially supported the man who had once saved them.

When Schindler died in 1974, the Schindlerjuden arranged his funeral and buried him in Jerusalem, not Germany. Hundreds followed his coffin through the Old City to the Latin cemetery on Mount Zion. One survivor placed a note on his grave: “The unforgettable rescuer of 1,200 persecuted Jews.” To this day, visitors leave stones there in the Jewish tradition honoring the dead.

Oskar Schindler was never a saint. He was a Nazi, a profiteer, an adulterer, and a deeply flawed man who once exploited Jewish labor for wealth. His transformation was messy, gradual, and imperfect. But when confronted with unimaginable cruelty, he made a choice: keep his fortune and let innocent people die, or sacrifice everything to save whoever he could. He chose the latter. By the end of his life, he had no money, no success, and almost nothing left to his name — except 1,200 lives, generations of descendants, and a list the world would never forget.#OskarSchindler #HolocaustHistory #SchindlersList #WorldWarII #Humanity

Ang hindi natin nakita.

A few days ago, nagpatulong kami magpacheck ng washing machine.

May naririnig kasi kaming kalampag sa loob… parang may nalaglag na turnilyo. As in hindi na pang “quick spin,” pang “concert tour” na talaga yung tunog.

So we called a technician. Pagdating niya, sabi ko,

“Kuya, pa-check naman po. Baka may natanggal na screw.”

Binuksan niya yung machine, tinanggal yung ilang parts, tapos sinilip nang maigi. Mga 15 minutes din siyang nagkalikot.

Then may hinugot siyang maliit na bagay.

Pagharap niya sa’kin, medyo kinabahan pa ako kasi akala ko major sira.

Pero sabi niya, “Sir, eto po.”

Hawak niya… isang bente pesos na coin.

Napakamot ako.

“Ah, coin lang pala… siguro mura lang to.”

Pero ngumiti si Kuya at sabi niya,

“Opo, Sir. Coin lang siya… pero pag ganitong kailangan kalasin para makuha, 1,500 po talaga ang service.”

Napakunot-noo ako nang bahagya, pero mahinahon kong nasabi,

“Kuya, coin lang talaga? 1,500?”

He smiled again and explained... calmly, professionally, walang yabang:

“Sir, hindi po yung coin ang binayaran ninyo. Sa inyo po yan. Ang binayaran po ninyo yung paano ko malalaman kung saan napunta, paano ko siya kukuhanin nang hindi nadadamage, at paano ko ibabalik yung washing machine nang ayos lahat ng pyesa.

At sir, kung hindi po natanggal yan, pwedeng magasgas o mabutas yung drum pag tumagal. Tingnan nyo po halos pudpod na yung coin.”

Tahimik ako after that. As in yung tahimik na tipong napahiya nang konti, pero natawa rin sa sarili.

Kasi doon ko na-realize... ang bilis nating malito between effort and value.

Akala natin pag maliit yung nakita, maliit dapat ang bayad.

Pag mabilis ginawa, mura dapat.

Pag “coin lang,” dapat “coin lang din ang presyo.”

Pero hindi natin nakikita:

Yung oras na ginugol para magkamali nang paulit-ulit.

Yung tools na pinag-ipunan.

Lahat yun para maging “madali lang” sa mata natin.

The truth?

It looks easy only because someone practiced long enough to make it look easy.

And this applies to everyone...

other technicians, artists, freelancers, carpenters, designers, marketers, photographers, writers, consultants, etc.

So next time we say,

“Madali lang ‘yan.”

“Mabilis lang ‘yan.”

“Ganyan lang yan?”

Remember:

You’re not paying for the minutes it took.

You’re paying for the years it took for someone to do it right, safely, and confidently.

At yung napudpod na coin na ‘yon?

Simple siya, oo... pero the lesson behind it?

Worth every peso.

#fblifestyle

Blood type

 ABO inheritance: blood group depends on parental A, B, and O alleles—A & B are codominant, O is recessive.

⚠️Disclaimer- For educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Blood grouping should be confirmed by laboratory testing.

#ABOBloodGroup #Genetics #Hematology #MedicalEducation #mednurseacademy

Loren Legarda

THE DAY I STOPPED BELIEVING IN LOREN LEGARDA

[An MCT Commentary]

I remember the first time I thought Loren Legarda was the real thing.

She was on television — sharp, controlled, asking the questions nobody else was asking. 

This was a woman who covered the People Power Revolution as a reporter for RPN, who sat in front of a camera when the rest of the country was running toward EDSA. 

She graduated cum laude from UP Diliman with a degree in broadcast communications, finished a master's degree at the National Defense College where she topped her class with gold medals, and then walked into the Senate in 1998 as the top vote-getter with over 15 million votes. 

Her first term was not just talk — she authored the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, the Anti-Domestic Violence Act, the Overseas Absentee Voting Act. Real legislation. 

The kind that actually protects people.

For a blogger like me who grew up believing that the right person in the right position could change something, Loren Legarda was an easy first faith.

I was wrong. And the longer I watched, the more I understood why.

THE WOMAN SHE STARTED AS

Before any of the politics, Loren Legarda was legitimately one of the most credible journalists in the Philippines. 

She anchored The World Tonight on the reopened ABS-CBN alongside Angelo Castro Jr., hosted The Inside Story, and earned more than 30 journalism awards before she ever ran for public office. 

She won the Benigno Aquino Award for Journalism in 1995 — named after the senator who was assassinated returning home to fight a dictatorship. 

She knew what that name meant.

She was born into a family with deep roots in journalism and public service. 

Her maternal grandfather was Jose P. Bautista, editor-in-chief of The Manila Times before Martial Law. 

Her family's political history stretches back to the Malolos Congress. 

This was not a woman who came to politics by accident. 

She came from a lineage that understood what power was supposed to be for.

That context is crucial now. Because everything that came after has to be measured against it.

THE BUTTERFLY PATTERN

The "political butterfly" label is not something her critics invented. It is a pattern she built, one alliance at a time.

She ran for the Senate in 1998 under Lakas-NUCD-UMDP — the ruling party of Fidel Ramos. 

In 2003, she left Lakas after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo broke her pledge not to run for president, and joined Fernando Poe Jr.'s coalition as an independent. 

Then she aligned with the NPC. In 2009, she ran as Manny Villar's vice presidential running mate under the Nationalist People's Coalition — this was a man she had previously scrutinized in the Senate. 

When asked if she was a political butterfly, she said she wasn't. She just kept flying to new flowers.

The VP bids were their own story. 

She lost to Noli de Castro in 2004 by 881,722 votes and spent years protesting the result before the Supreme Court dismissed her case in 2008. 

In 2010, she ran again as vice president, this time under Manny Villar, and placed third. 

Twice she tried to reach Malacañang through the second door. Twice she failed.

What she did next tells you everything.

THE UNITEAM DECISION AND THE SON WHO CALLED HER OUT

In 2022, Loren Legarda ran under the UniTeam senatorial slate — the Marcos-Duterte coalition. 

She finished second overall with 24.26 million votes, her best performance ever. 

She won by going home to the Marcoses.

At the risk of being redundant, I will tell you that statement is not a small thing. 

This is a woman who as a young journalist covered the tail end of Martial Law and the People Power Revolution that ended it. 

Her grandfather's newspaper, The Manila Times, was among those censored under Marcos. 

She received the Benigno Aquino Award. And in 2022, she walked onto the stage with the dictator's son and smiled for the cameras.

Imagine that. 

Her own firstborn son, Lorenzo Legarda Leviste, could not bear it. 

In an open letter published in May 2022, Lorenzo said he was "absolutely disgusted" by his mother. 

He said she "spits in the faces of thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by the Marcoses." 

He declared that she had "lost a son forever" because of the decision. 

Lorenzo had been living in the United States since he was 18 years old. 

The Marcos alliance apparently was the line he could not forgive even from across the Pacific.

Her younger son Leandro, on the other hand, published his own letter in support of her. 

It is worth remembering who Leandro is. We will get to that.

THE ABS-CBN VOTE: “HEARTBROKEN” BUT ABSENT

On July 10, 2020, the House of Representatives committee killed ABS-CBN's franchise renewal in a 70-11 vote. 

It was one of the most brazen attacks on press freedom in recent Philippine history. 

This was the network that Loren Legarda anchored for years. The network where she built her career, her credibility, her public face.

She abstained.

Her stated reason was conflict of interest: she had filed her own ABS-CBN franchise renewal bill, and she said House rules prevented her from voting. 

But House sources told Vera Files that the conflict-of-interest rule applied only to regular committee members — Legarda was an ex-officio member as Deputy Speaker and was not covered by the rule. 

She chose to abstain anyway.

She later said she was "heartbroken" about ABS-CBN's closure. 

She said the franchise "must be refiled." 

She performed grief publicly. 

But grief without action is just theater. 

She was in that room. She could have voted. She didn't. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Now here is the part of the story that gets buried under the grief performance.

In May 2024 — three and a half years after ABS-CBN died in that committee room — Leandro Leviste's holding company purchased an 8.5 percent stake in ABS-CBN. 

By June 2024, he had raised his stake to 10 percent, making him the second-largest ABS-CBN shareholder after the Lopez family, with his holdings valued at roughly ₱688.5 million.

The mother abstained while ABS-CBN was being killed. The son bought into it while it was on the floor, cheap.

The network her family declined to defend became the network her family now partly owns.

THE SOLAR PHILIPPINES ANGLE

This is the story that took me a long time to fully piece together, and I still do not think it has been told with the seriousness it deserves.

Leandro Leviste built Solar Philippines into one of the country's most high-profile renewable energy companies. 

In 2019, during Senator Legarda's third Senate term, the Solar Para sa Bayan Corporation received a 25-year franchise from Congress to build distributable solar power systems nationwide. 

Critics from the Anti-Trapo Movement questioned the "seemingly hasty" processing of that franchise, filing complaints against Legarda over the speed at which her Senate committee cleared the resolution.

Nothing formal came of those complaints then. 

But in January 2026, the Department of Energy imposed a ₱24 billion fine on Solar Philippines Power Projects Holdings for failure to deliver on committed projects. 

The DOE then filed a formal complaint against Leandro Leviste and five other Solar executives in May 2026.

Senator Legarda's response was to file a Senate resolution seeking a probe into the DOE's actions. 

The mother is now presiding over the chamber — she was elected Senate President Pro Tempore in May 2026 — that could either investigate or shield her son from a ₱24 billion liability.

When reporters asked her about the conflict of interest, she declined to address questions.

Sound familiar?

THE DYNASTY SHE BUILT WHILE FILING ANTI-DYNASTY BILLS

This is the irony that I have to put in writing because it is almost too on the nose.

Senator Loren Legarda has now filed an anti-political dynasty bill seven times. Seven. 

The bill has never passed. 

It keeps getting filed. It keeps going nowhere. 

Sixty-four percent of Filipinos support an anti-dynasty law according to Pulse Asia, and yet it never moves forward in a chamber where Legarda now holds the second-highest seat.

Meanwhile, the dynasty she has been building looks like this:

- Loren Legarda — Senate President Pro Tempore, fourth Senate term, having bounced from Senate to House and back to Senate using term limit rules as a revolving door

- AA Legarda (Antonio Agapito Legarda) — her brother, currently serving as Antique's lone district representative, having won a second term in 2025 with 210,491 votes — the same Antique seat Loren vacated when she returned to the Senate

- Leandro Leviste — her son, currently serving as Batangas 1st District Representative, with a reported net worth approaching ₱50 billion, chairman of Solar Philippines, now facing a ₱24 billion DOE fine

The Vera Files investigation published in March 2025 documented how AA Legarda ran on the name "Inday Loren" on the official candidate list — a name that voters in Antique associate with Loren herself, not with her brother — making it difficult for voters to know the difference. 

She had to cut ties with previous allies in the province, including Governor Rhodora Cadiao, to clear the field for her brother.

The woman who files anti-dynasty bills is simultaneously managing a three-front family political empire across two provinces and the national Senate. 

Her legislation was not hypocrisy by accident. It was hypocrisy as a brand.

THE MOST RECENT FLIP: MAY 2026

As I write this, there was a leadership coup in the Senate.

On May 11, 2026, the pro-Duterte bloc engineered a surprise shakeup that ousted the sitting Senate President and installed Alan Peter Cayetano. 

Loren Legarda voted for Cayetano. In exchange, she was immediately elected Senate President Pro Tempore — the chamber's second-highest position. 

This is at least her fourth major Senate leadership alignment shift in recent years.

When reporters asked her about it afterward, she evaded questions.

She has done this so many times now that the evasion itself has become the statement.

WHAT I GOT WRONG EARLY ON

I spent years giving Loren Legarda the benefit of the doubt because of the legislation. 

The Climate Change Act. The Magna Carta of Women. The Anti-Trafficking law. 

These are real bills. They protect real people.

But the pattern I kept seeing was not the occasional bad alliance choice. 

It was the consistent subordination of every stated principle to what was good for Loren and Leandro. 

The legislation was real, but it was also never the organizing logic. The organizing logic was always the family.

The ABS-CBN abstention was not about parliamentary procedure. 

The UniTeam alliance was not about unity. 

The seven anti-dynasty bills that never moved were not about reform. 

The Senate probe into the DOE that could shield her son from a ₱24 billion fine is not about energy policy.

Each one is about power — held, transferred, and protected.

THE QUESTION I NOW ASK

I used to wonder when Loren Legarda became this way. I now think that is the wrong question.

The better question is whether she ever wasn't this way — and whether we just weren't paying close enough attention. 

The journalism career that made her famous was built on a network, ABS-CBN, that her family later acquired a significant stake in. 

The province she represented, Antique, had been tied to her family going back to her great-granduncle, who served as mayor of Sibalom. 

Even the early reform credentials were built on top of a foundation that was always partly about family name and family position.

She chose Marcos in 2022. Her son Leandro supported that choice. Her other son Lorenzo disowned her for it. 

The family fractured publicly over the decision. 

And she went to the Senate anyway — and won bigger than she ever had before, with 24 million votes.

That number is the most honest thing in this whole story. 

The voters knew. They watched the same pattern I watched. And 24 million of them said it was fine.

I am not writing this to tell you how to vote. 

I am writing this because I lost my faith in Loren Legarda a long time ago, and I think it is worth saying out loud why — and being honest that part of that loss is on me. 

I believed in someone because she looked like she believed in something.

She may have. Once.

But principles without the spine to hold them at cost are just talking points. 

And in twenty-eight years of watching Loren Legarda, I have never once seen her hold a principle when it cost her something real.

That is the faith I lost. And I do not expect to get it back.

SOURCES

1. Loren says she's no political butterfly | GMA News Online

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/185793/loren-says-she-s-no-political-butterfly/story/

2. Loren Legarda fattens her dynasty - VERA Files

https://verafiles.org/articles/loren-legarda-fattens-her-dynasty

3. Legarda explains why she didn't participate in ABS-CBN franchise vote

https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/07/11/20/legarda-explains-why-she-didnt-participate-in-abs-cbn-franchise-vote

4. Legarda heartbroken over abstention on ABS-CBN franchise voting

https://politiko.com.ph/2021/10/21/i-spent-the-best-productive-years-of-my-life-in-that-station-legarda-heartbroken-over-abstention-on-abs-cbn-franchise-voting/

5. Son of Loren Legarda, "disgusted" at mother for running under UniTeam slate

https://kami.com.ph/politics/142334-son-loren-legarda-disgusted-mom-running-uniteam-slate-i-dont/

6. Leviste raises stake in ABS-CBN to 10%

https://www.philstar.com/business/2024/06/06/2360599/leviste-raises-stake-abs-cbn-10

7. Leviste buys 8.5% stake of ABS-CBN

https://business.inquirer.net/457141/leviste-buys-8-5-stake-of-abs-cbn

8. Leviste hikes ABS-CBN stake; inches closer to board seat

https://tribune.net.ph/2024/06/05/leviste-hikes-abs-cbn-stake-inches-closer-to-board-seat

9. Group questions 'hasty' processing of franchise for firm led by Legarda's son

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/companies/684476/group-questions-hasty-processing-of-franchise-for-firm-led-by-legarda-s-son/story/

10. DOE fines Leviste's Solar Philippines P24-B for failed commitments

https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2026/1/14/doe-fines-leviste-s-solar-philippines-p24-b-for-failed-commitments-1151

11. DOE files complaint vs Leviste, 5 other solar firm execs

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1274539

12. Legarda files seventh bill on anti-political dynasty

https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/2/19/legarda-files-seventh-bill-on-anti-political-dynasty-1730

13. Legarda: Congressman AA's triumph is victory for Antique

https://lorenlegarda.com.ph/legarda-congressman-aas-triumph-is-victory-for-antique/

14. Loren Legarda returns to the Senate on her 4th term

https://lorenlegarda.com.ph/loren-legarda-returns-to-the-senate-on-her-4th-term-much-to-do-many-to-help/

15. Senate coup: Sotto out, Cayetano takes over

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/05/12/2527301/senate-coup-sotto-out-cayetano-takes-over

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_ABS-CBN_broadcasting

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Legarda

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Philippine_Senate_election

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https://jur.ph/jurisprudence/digest/legarda-v-de-castro-42390

20. It's final: Loren loses election protest case vs Noli

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2008/02/20/45743/its-final-loren-loses-election-protest-case-vs-noli

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Hernia

😣 When part of the stomach pushes upward through the diaphragm into the chest, it can lead to acid reflux, chest discomfort, and swallowing problems—this condition is called Hiatal Hernia.

🩺 Hiatal Hernia

A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach bulges through the opening in the diaphragm where the esophagus passes into the stomach.

👉 Medical term: Hiatal hernia

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🔹 Location

• Between the chest and abdomen

• At the opening of the diaphragm (hiatus)

• Near the stomach and esophagus junction

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🔹 What Does It Do?

• The diaphragm normally helps keep the stomach in place

• In hiatal hernia, part of the stomach moves upward into the chest

• This can weaken the valve that prevents acid reflux

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⚠️ Common Symptoms

• Heartburn

• Acid reflux (GERD)

• Chest pain or pressure

• Difficulty swallowing

• Burping or bloating

• Sour taste in mouth

• Shortness of breath in severe cases

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🧠 How It Happens

• Weakness in the diaphragm opening develops

• Increased pressure pushes the stomach upward

• Acid more easily flows back into the esophagus

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🧾 Risk Factors

• Aging

• Obesity

• Heavy lifting

• Chronic coughing

• Pregnancy

• Smoking

• Straining during bowel movements

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🚨 Possible Complications

• Severe acid reflux

• Esophagitis

• Barrett’s esophagus

• Esophageal ulcers

• Strangulated hernia (rare emergency)

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🩺 Diagnosis

• Endoscopy

• Barium swallow X-ray

• CT scan

• Esophageal manometry

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💊 Treatment Options

• Acid-reducing medications

• Lifestyle and diet changes

• Weight management

• Surgery in severe cases

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🛡️ Tips for Better Management

• Avoid large meals

• Do not lie down after eating

• Maintain healthy weight

• Avoid spicy and fatty foods

• Elevate head during sleep

• Quit smoking

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🚨 Important Note

Persistent reflux, chest pain, or swallowing difficulty should be medically evaluated.

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