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Some essential wonders for sore throat, burns, and sticker residue

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I’ve been an Oiler for 9 months now and this has sparked my intense fascination with natural lifestyle. Day by day I get to have an appreciation of God’s amazing creations through the properties of essential oils. I would have wanted the oils to work for my Bell’s palsy, which I have been enduring for exactly one year already, but admittedly, I haven’t really been consistently using it for some months for that purpose, so maybe that’s why it hasn’t significantly improved my condition. Even though it hasn’t done much for my Bell’s palsy and my other issues, I would say that I have seen for myself the power of these oils in other ways: 1) Healing sore throat One morning I just woke up with a very sore throat like there was a wound inside. I let it pass for a day thinking that it will resolve itself, but it just got worse the following day, so I thought of consulting a doctor to rule out any major health issue. I used MyPocketDoctor and within an hour or so, I was connected to a GP who
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Things we won't be doing anytime soon

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The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely changed the way we're living today and in the foreseeable future. The highly contagious silent killer has already affected millions worldwide and left hundreds of thousands dead. Since my immune system has been weak which triggered my Bell's palsy a year ago, I have not gone out for more than 2 months now. My sister has been the "tribute" in our household and I just feel sorry for her that she's forced to do the errands and take care of my sick aunt at the same time, all while also working from home. Anyway, just a random thought crossed my mind about the communal activities in the Philippines that we won't be doing anytime soon given the cesspool of germs you'd probably get: (1) Boodle Fight I probably only did this twice in my life, the most recent one was probably 8 years ago, after our house-building CSR activity in partnership with Gawad Kalinga. Though it was fun and initially nice to look at before the eatin
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Not getting any better

Life has not been great the past days. It has been a complete 180 from the time I was quite hopeful and optimistic about the future just about 2 weeks ago. I had this glimmer of hope that my breakthroughs in life will already start to unravel. I already have the crystals I could possibly need to transform my life, so I just have to pray that these treasures from God will already help me get out of this very depressing and deep rut that I’ve been into for a long time now. But it doesn’t really seem like it for the past week. I don’t know if it’s going to get any better soon. In just a week, my aunt has been reduced to skin and bones, and I just get chills down my spine seeing her in that condition. She has become quite dependent on my sister that even if I ask her what she needs, she doesn’t answer me, but looks for my sister instead. Honestly, if I could just die instead of her, I’ll take that. I just feel worthless and hopeless. I have gone through so many frustrations in my life th
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Starting the week on the wrong foot

I just want to do a catharsis of my thoughts, hopefully, to get rid of all the bad juju in my head and in my surroundings. I have to say I was very optimistic a few days ago, around that time when I just received all the crystals for prosperity and positive vibes. Surprisingly, just a few days after receiving the crystals, one of my items in Carousell (a marketplace like eBay to sell mostly used stuff) which I posted over a year ago and was taking a lot of space in my room, was sold. It was a Naipo massager which I bought when I was in France, and I was selling it for Php 4,500. The buyer haggled for Php 3,000 which I would normally decline, but since it has been over a year since I posted the item, I conceded. He told me right there and then that he would come to our house to pick up the item but it was already past 4pm when he messaged and I was worried he might be caught due to the curfew being implemented during the ECQ. He told me that he's a frontliner though, so he's exe
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Break the Cycle!

I normally prefer to write on my blog at the end of the day, but this time, I’m just really bothered that I felt compelled to pour out my thoughts right this very moment. I grew up in a low middle class family, a one-income household where my self-employed father sometimes had a job, sometimes didn’t. I was fortunate that I was able get scholarships during my high school and college years that my parents only had to think about funding my basic necessities and other miscellaneous school expenses. As a child, I didn’t experience a lot of things most middle class kids enjoyed—taking a piano or ballet class, getting involved in sports clinics, and traveling abroad. I honestly regret not being able to experience these because I am really disappointed that I have no talent in sports, or music. It appeared to me that as a family, we were just merely surviving—when my dad had a job, we could eat, when he didn’t, we had to sleep off the hunger or borrow money if something was urgent. Same
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Tita had a stroke

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Last Wednesday morning, (May 13, 2020), while my 72-year old aunt, Tita Lina, was sweeping at the backyard, she suddenly felt dizzy that she could not balance herself to walk upright. As usual, I was working from home and locked inside my bedroom so I was only informed about her condition when my sister sent me a Facebook message. I would not have thought that it could be stroke because when I checked up on her, she didn’t have the usual stroke symptoms so we surmised that she could have just felt dizzy due to the extreme heat the past few days. Aside from being dizzy and not being able to walk properly, she also complained about the pain in her stomach and legs, so I took out the Young Living essential oils that could possibly help her: Panaway and Copaiba for her headache and leg pain, and Digize for her stomach ache. I put these oils neat on the affected areas and prayed that these oils might help her. After putting them on her twice, she reported the next day that her condition did
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ECQ thoughts on Day 56

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Today marks 56 days since the Philippine government announced the order to put the capital under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). Since the first case reported in January 30, 2020, the Philippines didn't have any further cases for some time, apart from the 3 Chinese nationals, whose cases were eventually closed with 2 of them recovering completely and the other one succumbing to the disease. I was feeling at ease then because we could say that our country was "COVID-free". I was even frequenting Makati Medical Center at least 4 times a week for my physical therapy and perineural injections. I also went to see my favorite drag queens in their show at the Araneta Center on February 29. But of course, despite being "COVID-free" then, I was still cautious most of the time and was wearing a face mask whenever I was outside, you'd never know who might have the disease and unknowingly spreads it. By early March, the situation started to become alarming as we
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