02/05/2025
Long post:
The Golden Hour
(Brain Aneurysm Survivor)
There is one thing that I always wanted to try, to experience the holidays in the States specially the famous Ball drop in NYC. It’s been an ongoing plan every year but God’s plan is always better than ours, and His timing is perfect because it’s a triple treat, I’m with my travel buddy as always and his mom this time (Maybe she has a role to play), it’s her first long haul trip, that’s why we gave up our previous plan of traveling to Antarctica (It’s so hard to give it up because it would be the completion of our 7 Continents but we just did gave it up for now)
It’s been a tiring but happy journey as we went first to LA and San Francisco before finally coming to New York where The Golden Hour of my life will take place and God’s power will be revealed. It was the 3rd of January 2025, days after a week of going here and there, late night sleeps and some stressful stuffs related to work back from the Philippines, I took a shower because we have a tour that day but I passed out inside the bathroom, I didn’t know how long it was but I was standing (Unbelievably standing with eyes open not lying on the floor) when my buddy found me in the shower with my phone down the floor and hot shower pouring continuously (Thank God for the defective door lock he easily opened the door), he laid me down the floor and my consciousness slowly got back and I remember them walking me gently back to the bed. With the instinct that they have, they gave me meds and did stuffs that they thought could help me but I only vomited and just told them to cancel the tour and that I will only rest the whole day, it could only be because of the exhaustion from the trip and will get back to normal soon. I also thank God for not sleeping because it could be my last.
Fast forward. That’s what I only thought what happened, that I just need some rest, but because of my unceasing complain, they decided to call 911, I was brought to the nearest hospital as per their protocol. I never knew that the nearest one is the Best one not only in New York but in the whole of The United States (God prepared the best for me). In the hospital, NYU Health Langone, I was treated efficiently and they told me that I had a Cerebral Ruptured Aneurysm and that the blood needs to be drained immediately from my brain within “The Golden Hour” (It’s the part of the day when you see an orange-like color of the sun both during sunrise and sunset but it only appears very short that waiting for it is longer than actually catching a sight of it), I only have 4 hours or less left, it’s a golden hour for me. It’s really a divine intervention, God placed me in the right place at the right time with all the triggers including late night sleeps, stress, tiring daily routines and a very hot shower too, etc., the Aneurysm burst like a balloon. I was in an uncomfortable but perfect situation because it will eventually happen as I have it with me all along, it could be here back home or anywhere in the world but if it happened here, my Golden hour will be compromised, we have a less competent system of doing things medically speaking, I don’t mean the doctors because we have excellent doctors here but the system per se. In NYU Health Langone, they immediately sensed what happened, they gave me proper medical attention, the tests were fast like a photocopier, once they put you in, you go out with the result, that’s top-grade! And their doctors are the “gods” (with small letter “g”) in their field. They asked me if in case I’m unable to decide for my life, who’s the one to decide for me? And I just pointed out to my buddy and say his name, Eric, that’s the last thing I remember.
During my unconscious state they operated on me, they call the procedure WEB (Woven Endo Bridge) Procedure, it’s an endovascular technique, not an open brain surgery which is quite common, a much older and delicate procedure. It was a successful operation. It took approximately 4-5 hours. Four hours that could turn out to be eternal. But God is not finished with me yet, I still have a purpose, a mission in life to fulfill.
Thy will be done.
Why did it happened? Genetically speaking, both of my parents are hypertensive and I am no exception. I’m like a walking time bomb, my BP on a regular basis is around 200+/100+ ever since I can remember, not only that I have a hypertensive genes which I cannot control, there are things that I can control but unfortunately I did not mind as a young person, I’m not a fan of vegetables, I never eat them, I like meat and processed food and I have a habit of sleeping late at night that’s the reason why I developed the Aneurysm because the prolonged high blood pressure will eventually lead to the ballooning or bulge in a blood vessel in the brain.
What’s the role of Intra in all of these? It helped a lot, for if without it, I could have died early on, years ago. Remember that I have 200/100 BP, that’s the pinnacle of cardiac arrest, heart attack or stroke.
Intra, extended my otherwise short life span with all the genes and the bad habits that I had. But again, it didn’t exempt me from developing the aneurysm because I just kept my BP on its high levels.
With these amazing products that we have, Intra, Nutria Plus, FibreLife and CardioLife. I am now a case study, a subject for research in The United States because up until now, they couldn’t believe that I have survived a decade long of very high BP, passed out but remained standing, not falling down on the floor, I am their fastest patient to recover, I respond greatly in every procedure and meds that they gave. These are the resons why they requested me to be back there for follow up check ups and tests and hopefully, I can contribute to the advancement of their medical study in any form.
To sum it up, what I thought to be a ruined vacation was really a God’s Master Plan for me. A Miracle indeed!
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