Survivor's Tale By Rhodora E. (The author is a teacher who lives in Davao. Her identity is not fully disclosed to protect her.) “Every day, we have a chance to practice the small deaths, for each moment is a small death leading to a new life”, says Bob Edelstein. My physical “deaths” were...
SURVIVORS TALE By GLENDA D. RELOVA (The author is a nurse and a social worker by profession. She is the assistant secretary for the Operations Group and Statutory Programs of a government agency. ) Mahatma Gandhi once said “Where there is Love there is Life.” My survival story revolves around...
SURVIVOR’S TALE Survivor's Tale By NIKKI REGIO (The author is a 38-year-old full-time mother of two doing a little bit of everything. She lives in Parañaque City.) May 7, 2020 was when we lost my mother-in-law to cancer. That was when COVID-19 cases were increasing and lockdowns were being...
SURVIVOR’S TALE By MELA LESMORAS (Mela Lesmoras is a news correspondent from the government's flagship network, PTV-4. Currently, she is a member of the Malacañang Press Corps, covering presidential and Malacañang events. Before joining the media, she also served as a Sangguniang Kabataan...
(Eliza Gutierrez, 39, is a senior IT analyst in a multinational Indian tech company. She lives in Quezon City.) For 20 months now, this pandemic has indeed affected all of us in one way or another. As someone with a handful of comorbidities, it has been a challenge to see doctors for a routine...
By JOHN KARLO LEGARDE (The survivor in this story is a four-year-old girl named Kassy. Her father tells this story on how faith drew communities together to pray for a miracle to heal her from a very rare virus.) Thirty days in the hospital, 23 of those in the intensive care unit (ICU) where my...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author is a senior graphic designer working at a home furnishings company in the UAE for 12 years now. ) I've been wanting to take a break from work. My husband and I have been away from home for three years now because of the pandemic. Since traveling abroad is now...
Prayers and support helped her gather the courage to fight the virus SURVIVOR’S TALE I was home for almost two months when I got COVID-19. The only time I went out was to visit my late parents in Manila Memorial Park in Sta. Rita, Bulacan with my siblings and their families, together with my...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author is a Filipina transgender who was managing a bar in the Ginza district in Tokyo until it closed due to the pandemic. This is how she coped and continues to live in an expensive part of Tokyo for more than a year since the lockdown.) TOKYO, Japan – I opened my iPhone...
SURVIVOR’S TALE “I am God’s miracle,” Cora Villanueva, 65, said a year after she tested positive for COVID-19 and became one of the most critical cases in Bacolod City. She survived the disease after being in the hospital for five weeks. Three weeks of that, she was in the ICU,...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (The author, who hails from Bohol, is currently in Canada. He works at a Catholic School in Manila.) This pandemic goes beyond any prediction, calculation, and data analysis. It has been a year or more of lockdowns and quarantines. Most of our senses cannot afford to notice the...
SURVIVOR’S TALE (Ricky Ibe, 52, is a creative and events director. He lives in Cainta, Rizal.) I have always declared myself a self-made man. Everything I achieved and acquired was because of my own doing. Then, I was made to realize it was not all about me. In life, people face trials that test...
