SINGING THERAPY FOR MY STROKE PATIENT THIS MORNING, AUGUST 20TH, 2012

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/26/144152193/singing-therapy-helps-stroke-patients-speak-again
I was paralyzed for 7 years.
I was hospitalized in 2002 because of congenital heart disease and kidney failure.
My body system totally bogged down.
I actually "died", clinically dead for 20 minutes.
The nephrologist attending to me that year told me that "I had the chance of 50 percent survival rate. So I told Dr. Ong to release me because my Father in Heaven could give me 100% life or 100% death. There's no 50-50 chance of surviving with my Father, and there's no 50-50 chance of dying, too.

Then before my brother Bern went to Vietnam to work as an electrical and mechanical engineer that year, he prayed me over to our Father. I remember my brother prayed to our Father to have mercy on me; that if HE wanted to take my life away, HE could take it at once since I already have spent decades of my life being sick; that I have been suffering so much and a lot because of my sicknesses; and that if GOD would still want to give me life since HE knows that I have been using my life in serving HIM, HE has all the powers to give my life back at once so I could go back to serving HIM.

I remember the miracle that happened on that day when my brother prayed, but I can't remember the exact date. I was not in the right disposition to remember everything. I was vegetable.

Before my brother Bern took his flight on that night, he sent messages to my brother Arthuro and sister Marivic; that if they would want to see me alive, they should go to my place at once.

Arthuro, my therapist brother who was living in Bulacan province that time came at once, as soon as he received the message of our brother Bern. He gave me a therapy which he learned from Japan. My brother Arthuro gave me a therapy far different from the therapies being given by other Filipino therapists. It's a combination of therapy and reflexology of different countries especially Japan and Thailand which in the later days also became part of my knowledge.

Every one who came to my place the next morning was shocked. My sister Marivic who I have been helping through these years even uttered, "Sabi ni Bern eh mamamatay ka na. Yan ba ang mamamatay na? Kumakanta ka pa?" (Bern told us that you are dying. Is that dying? You are still singing?)

That's real.
I felt that GOD heard the supplications of my brother Bern so I felt there was a force pushing me to get up. And as soon as I got up, the first thing that came to my mind was singing. I was afraid of losing my voice which eventually got lost, I suffered for the next 7 years of my life. I lost my voice. I lost everything that GOD had given me while I was still in the womb of my mom.

That day after the prayer of my brother Bern, the ONLY THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND WAS TO REGAIN MY VOICE BECAUSE I SHOULD STILL BE USING IT FOR GLORIFYING MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.

SO I got the microphone and turned on the karaoke system. When my sister Marivic and her daughter Hannagae came, they saw me sitting on my bed with my legs stretched since my right leg was still not moving while I was singing "You Needed Me".

Yes. I was singing right after the day when my brother Bern asked our Father to heal me. Then the next days were all milestones and great histories of my life.

To make the story short, I totally regained my voice in 2010 after I prayed to my Father during the hours of our worship services while sitting in the choir loft to give back to me the voice that is pleasing to HIM, the voice which I would be using in glorifying HIS MOST HOLY NAME!

Singing and music have been part of the therapies which I MYSELF ADMINISTERED TO MY DEAD BODY, PLUS THE PHYSICAL THERAPIES of my brother Arthuro, and most especially the LOVE AND MERCY OF THE HOLY FATHER, I AM NOW BACK IN THE CHOIR LOFT TO SING PRAISES UNTO HIM.

In the morning of today, August 20th, 2012, I went out of my training centre to give a speech therapy to a stroke patient who lives in Quezon City, Philippines.

I FELT I WAS CRITICIZED BECAUSE I APPLIED SINGING IN THE SPEECH THERAPY THAT I GAVE TO A 57-year-old woman WHO IS STILL BEDRIDDEN. I tried to help the patient to open her mouth and to move her tongue naturally. I also wanted to activate her brain and to rejuvenate her senses. But I felt like I was mocked and I saw some disapproval grimaces from their faces. Anyway, I don't need an audience when I give a speech therapy, but they were all around me this morning.

And because of what I felt inside the room, after my online classes this afternoon at 2, I searched the answer from the internet whether I could use music and singing to a stroke patient, and this is what I have found.
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144152193&m=144273991 

AMAZING! I thought I was the ONLY ONE USING MUSIC AND SINGING IN THE SPEECH THERAPIES. I can't say that they are copying me because they have this audio while I don't have any audios or videos of my speech therapies BECAUSE I DON'T WANT SOMEONE TO BE MY COPYCAT.

On the other hand, they can't also tell that I am copying them because it is ONLY TODAY THAT I CAME ACROSS WITH THIS....http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=144152193&m=144273991 

THIS IS ONLY ONE PROOF THAT FILIPINO OCCUPATIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND SPEECH THERAPISTS LAG BEHIND IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THERAPIES. MY KNOWLEDGE IS NOT JUST DERIVED FROM BOOKS AND NOT JUST ACQUIRED FROM SCHOOLS. MY KNOWLEDGE COMES FROM MY FATHER, ONE VERY IMPORTANT REASON THAT I SHOULD ONLY USE MY KNOWLEDGE IN GIVING GLORY TO MY FATHER.