It has been 19 months since Ate May posted on her blog. Days after she wrote her last blog titled "House Arrest", she had a very bad fall my mom was almost sure she hit her head on the cement step. The Lord cushioned her fall and she hit her shoulder instead. It took three persons to move her from where she fell to her bed. That was the last you all heard from her.
That event signaled that ALS is advancing. She completely stopped using the computer and she had to be fed by my mother. I had to listen so carefully when I talk to her on the phone, I was in San Diego until October 2nd of 2008. Pictures of her 50th birthday organized by my cousins were depressing as her body continue to atrophy.
I went home on October 2nd, 2008 and witnessed for myself how my Ate’s condition progressed. Though I chatted with her and saw her several times in YM, it is still different to see her in that condition in person. But I am surely glad the Lord brought me and my husband back home to be with her at this time.
These days, she sits most of the day on her wheelchair, but a few visitors commented how she retains her beauty, both in and out despite ALS. Her quiet and peaceful spirit endures the pain and the limitations brought by ALS on her.
For many of you who will not be able to see her in person, I am posting her most recent picture with our one and only nephew, Ian.
