The Most Tragic Love Story of the Decade

News story: 13-year-old boy shoots alleged lover, then self

I just received this disturbing email from a friend. The authenticity of the email has not been verified. But it seems believable. The story was both tragic and scary. I got nightmares after reading this. I thought it was a mistake reading this email, and I am thinking that the two lovers involved in this story and who had died may be up to haunting me! Anyway, I'm too much of an asshole to even make a blog out of this. Haha. It could be said then, Young Love can be dangerous.
- Lawrence

 P.S. Email starts now! Texts in blue (except the hyperlinks) are created by me. If you may get offended by the fact that this email has been posted, please surf away from this page now; otherwise, read on! =)

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Ito na un pinakihihintay nating love triangle tragic story of the year ….
 

PAULO, the 3^rd PARTY
 

 
 
JONATHAN….  The 16-year old who was shot
 

 
 
JAKE HERRERA PEREZ  (aka Josh) … The 13-year old who fired the gun….  
 

Facebook profile link

Don't "friend" or "message" if you don't want to get an unexpected reply.

       
 
 
LAST POST ni JAKE (aka JOSH).. in SM, while waiting for Jonathan….a few minutes before nya ito binaril …
 

 
 
All started through FB.
All started through FB.

[Part 1]
Kwento ko lang love story nung nasa balita. :p

May 26. They knew each other through FB. Madaling araw.
May 27. Jonathan posted things on Jake's wall. They were getting close.
May 28. Jonathan wanted Jake to change numbers. Masyado na silang sweet.
"Itext mo ako kaagad kapag nakabili ka na ng sim na globe ha? I miss you. ♥"
June 5. Jake posted on FB: Jake went from being "single" to "in a relationship." Jonathan liked it. (june 4 naging sila)
August. Nagkakalabuan na. Palagi na lang may selos na kahalo sa mga post ni Jake. Jake posted: "love you september ok na tayo magkikita ulit tayo muahhhh"
September 4. 3rd monthsary nila.
September 5. Jake commented on a video (The best father yata): "i wish my father is like him kaso hindi ako pinalad sana sya nalang tatay ko" (obviously hindi nya makausap parents nya)

‎[Part 2]

September 9. Jake: "you said you love me bakit ginaganto moko gago ka tignan mu kung anu kaya kong gawin tahimik ako pero gago ako baka my magawa ako sayo at di na kita makita at makita ako na nasa kulungan nalang"
September 15. Jake: "nung wala ako nakikipag landian anu yan tapos ako nag hihirap kakatrabaho para sa gift ko sayo hai ang landi mu naman makontento kana sakin ok kasi balang aral marerealize mo ako lang ung taong kelangan mo habang buhay"
September 17. Jonathan: "JAKE." (nag-aaway na talaga sila and i think they broke up) Jonathan: "Ingat. "
September 18. Jake: "gusto ko sumigaw ng malakas nakakainis ka bat kasi sineryoso kita tignan mo ngayon ang gulo na ng buhay ko"

[Part 3]

September 18. Paulo (Jake's "new") tweeted: "So Kailangan Magkatext, Magkachat and Magkamessage pa? hahaha! OHHHHHHHVEEEEEEER!! )"
September 19. Jake chatting with a FB friend: "hindi move on kailangan ko brad sya ang kailangan ko tatapusin namin bukas kung anu man ung naumpisahan namin"
September 19. Paulo tweeted: "Off to School. Blessed Monday Morning People. I LOVE YOU BABE. "
September 20. 5AM. Jake posted a pic with a caption "the last photo haha"
September 20. 11AM. Jake posted a pic with a caption "nandito nako sm hai naku naman bye na po dami tao dito asan na kaya ung isa haha"
September 20. around 12PM. The tragedy happened.
September 20. 8PM. Paulo: "kasalanan mo kung bakit nasa hospital si jonathan ngayon! napaka sama mong tao!" Paulo then deactivated his account. Trying to hide his identity, I guess.
 
 

News: SM Pampanga Shooting Incident | The Shirt And The FB Status

Posted by Biboy Ordinario Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Labels: news, pampanga facebook,pampanga shooting incident, pampanga suicide shirt, sm city pampanga shooting incident

THE NEWS

A few days ago, a shooting incident was rendered inside SM City Pampanga. A 13-year old boy shot his 16-year old boyfriend with a 0.22 caliber and declared himself "brain dead".

The security missed to detect the 0.22 caliber due to its small size. In fact, this gun has a similar size of a cellphone so it's really hard to detect this minute gun with a simple frisk. After the incident, the investigators found a suicide note indicating hatred and jealousy. The suspect also made a white t-shirt filled with scribbles of extreme hatred and pain; and he wore it during the said incident.

 

 

 

THE FACEBOOK STATUSES and THE SUICIDE SHIRT

I was shocked after hearing this news. Our minors nowadays are leading into a path influenced by the negative contents of the internet, mass and social media. I managed to discover the Facebook account of this 13-year old boy.

Observing the Facebook statuses of this guy before the incident, it was emblazoned with mysteries of depression, messages of loneliness, pain and hatred. These are his disturbingFacebook statuses and photos before the incident:

di mo ko kilala ang galing ko mag tago sayo ang alam mo mangyan na mayaman ako pero di ako bobo bro.im not stupid im care full lang sa sinasabi ko kasi ang alam ko ipang lalaban mo im pretending to be gurang tawa ako haha
Monday at 11:58pm


if he left you then came back to search for you, don't tell him
"I am dead cause you killed me",
but tell him "A new me is born, that you don't deserve".
Monday at 11:59pm


After these 2 FB statuses, he posted a photo of himself with a caption "The Last Photo Haha"
Then by 4:41 AM Tuesday, he uploaded a photo of himself carrying the Suicide Shirt that he made. It seems like he didn't sleep before the incident because of his extreme emotion of hatred. You can also observe in his photo some self-infliction that he made in his left arm.

 

i make a shirt on my own lahat ata ng galit ko sa mundo naisulat ko un ung susuutin ko mamaya bago ako umalis hai naku eto sumple ng damit ko mamaya ang ganda ng gawa ko haha sayang talent ko (Caption of the Photo)

‎2nd time ko mag seryoso sau lng ako nag kagn2 hehe sau muli ko naramdaman ang pagmamahal na ito ngunit anu maggawa ko? mahal mo ba ako? alam ko may mahal ka iba b8 mahal kba nia? hheeh xDD ok lng kh8 masaktan ako basta sumaya ka lng un lang paraan para sumaya ka lang ganyan kita kamahal :) lol di ikaw yan wag mu isiping ikaw yan ok
Tuesday at 5:12am

Then by 10:43 AM Tuesday, he posted his last photo of himself, wearing the suicide shirt inside SM City Pampanga!
 
 

 
 

nandito nako sm hai naku naman bye na po dami tao dito asan na kaya ung isa haha (Caption of the Photo)

 

Then in the end... It happened. The SM City Pampanga Shooting Incident

 

 
PAMPANGA, Philippines (8th UPDATE) – The 2 teens involved in a shooting incident inside SM Pampanga passed away Wednesday, their doctors and families said.
The 13-year-old boy died before 3 p.m. after his family decided to have his life support tube removed, doctors said.
The life support system on the other boy, a 16-year-old, was also removed Wednesday night.
He died around 11 p.m., according to his family.
He and his younger companion were earlier declared brain dead by doctors.
Dr. Eric Salas of San Fernandino Hospital, the attending physician, said the family of the 13-year-old boy has decided to donate his vital organs.
His remains have been brought to his family home in Mariveles, Bataan province.
Salas and Dr. Alfonso Danac, head of the emergency room of Jose B. Lingad Hospital in San Fernando City, coordinated for the harvesting of the organs.
The family of the 16-year-old victim said his vital organs will also be donated. His body has been brought home to Bulacan.
Danac said the teen's family accepted that he no longer has a chance to live.
He said only the life support system kept the boy alive.
The bullet from the caliber .22 handgun used by his companion in shooting remained lodged in the 16-year-old victim's head.
Before he was brought out of the hospital, the manager of SM Pampanga visited him in the hospital and reportedly promised to help pay for his medical expenses.
 
 
Warm regards,
Jam

Judas, the Traitor no More

“… you will be greater than them all. Judas, you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.”

By: Josef Angelo Quero and Marcel Lawrence Emil Agpasa

For more than two thousand years, the Catholic Church has stood against the whips and lashes of time. It has endured countless issues against its doctrines and teachings. For more than two millennia, we have been taught of the same thing…

But what if latest discoveries in our time reveal the greatest scandal of the Church, so shocking it could spell its downfall… and the Church could be willing to silence those who would speak of it? The truth is about to be revealed. There is no turning back. Prepare to open the GNOSTIC GOSPELS, THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS!

Who is Judas?

The name itself sends a wicked feel. Judas Iscariot. It has been equated to treachery and deceit. For many centuries, Judas has been the world’s most hated figure. He has been portrayed as an evil incarnate forever damned to burn in hell. Judas Iscariot – the apostle who pawned Jesus to His death.

With the advent of the discovery of an ancient leather-bound book in Egypt, the story of Judas’ betrayal turns unimaginably upside down. What happens when we see the side of a story in the eyes of a betrayer? What if the lie behind the world's most famous kiss is a lie in itself? The answers could take us back to the Garden of Gethsemane and deeper into the rowdy history of the Catholic Church.

Mystic Secret

When the Church was young, early Christians preached in groups to spread the Word of God. There were no standard Gospel (“good news”) to teach that time. Things got worse when Roman soldiers started persecuting those who had professed as Christians. During those daunting days, the Christian community was in massive disarray. Different sects of Christianity emerged, each having its own versions of Christ’s teachings and contradicting one another’s interpretation. Some of them: the would-be Catholics and the Gnostics.

Gnostics propose a more abstract belief: that salvation can be achieved by achieving gnosis or secret knowledge. It suggests that each man holds a divine spark within him that needs to be freed from the material body, and that one can attain divine perfection or reach heaven by deciphering the mystic teachings of Jesus Christ. They suggest the ultimate key to salvation is by self-activating the ‘latent God’ within every soul to a path to self-mastery and spiritual enlightenment. Hence, Gnostics were in no need of priests nor bishops.

This view bothered the early Church leaders. It spelled confusion among followers of conventional Christianity which had gained rapid spread over Asia Minor and the entire Mediterranean and had won the heart of the Roman Empire.

Survival of the Simplest

Then came Saint Irenaeus to the rescue. As a Church Father in 180 A.D., he severely denounced the teachings of Gnosticism, proclaiming that it was a dangerous doctrine never to be read by any righteous Catholic. He was then given the ultimate task of saving a very confused and threatened Church: to choose the righteous gospels that would take the Bible center stage.

Irenaeus had to make sure the selected gospels would not raise questions among its believers. After a private conclave, he declared “there are four gospels and only four… like the four directions of the wind… four corners of the earth…” Since then, the rest of the Gnostic gospels were discarded, burned and banned. And thus started the fame of brothers Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

But the Gospel of Judas refused to fade into eternity. After almost 1800 years from hiding, it had finally seen the light of day.

The Bombshell Unearthed

History has repeated itself. In 1896, the Gospel of Mary shocked the world. Then in Upper Egypt in 1945, a peasant accidentally discovered the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of 12 ancient leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar. It contained the Gnostic Gospels like the Gospel of Philip, Thomas, Truth, the Egyptians, and other apocalyptic writings. Two years later, two shepherds accidentally uncovered the “Dead Sea Scrolls” in a cave in Wadi Qumran in Israel.

And finally in 1978, near the Egyptian Nile River, a farmer in search of gold and treasure came across an old burial cave. There laid a rugged stone box with a leather-bound book inside. He never knew the language was written in Coptic, an ancient language by the Egyptian pharaohs. Never did he know that he discovered what could be one of the greatest biblical archeological find – the Gospel of Judas.

Then Judas’ devastating journey began. After having been found by chance, sold twice and stolen once, little by little the pages of the Gospel of Judas slowly turned to fragments, the remaining pages bore many unrecognizable traces of blank ink. About 15% of the whole texts were completely wiped out from history but the remaining texts were just enough to finally redeem Judas from mankind’s mockery…

Fragments of the lost Gospel of Judas were subjected to a very precise time test, a test that measured when these ancient papyri had been made. The result? Radiocarbon dating revealed the papyri dated back 50 years before or after 200 A.D. – the years when the early Church was still beginning. There is thus no doubt. The Gospel is an authentic ancient artifact.

What’s with this gospel that so got into the nerves of Catholic conservatives? At long last, the world is ready to hold the secrets of the Judas Gospel.

The Gospel of A Hero

In the Gospel of Judas, the author reverses the story of Jesus’ betrayal. Judas is not a traitor. Instead, he is the greatest among the apostles and the closest to Jesus Christ. He is cursed and envied by the other disciples.

The Judas Gospel unfolds with an opening remark “This is the secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke to Judas three days before he celebrated the Passover.” Jesus then is described not as the authoritative preacher. He does not speak of sin and repentance. Instead, he presents himself as a guide for his followers to spiritual understanding (gnosis). It portrays Jesus among the disciples as a child who laughs a great deal.

A disturbing revelation by Christ was again made known. In the gospel, the twelve apostles see a vision: they saw a great house with an altar; near it were twelve priests; and the twelve were receiving many cattle as sacrifice to the altar; people around them were doing evil deeds. In response, Jesus very bluntly says to them, “Those you have seen receiving the offerings at the altar—that is who you are. That is the god you serve, and you are those twelve men you have seen. The cattle you have seen brought for sacrifice are the many people you lead astray before that altar.”

Is Jesus Christ predicting the future of the early Church? Did it mean then that that the 2.2 billion Christians worldwide are actually being led astray?

The Divine Revelations

Then, in another occasion, Jesus divulges an Apocalyptic message. He compares the human race to the “unperishable race”, which would be the only race to remain throughout eternity. Jesus says the human race and even the angels shall be destroyed, and only those who shall attain divinity will be spared.

Jesus also explains to Judas a very mystical Gnostic theme that Matthew and the other three gospels fail to mention – cosmogony. In Judas’ Gospel, Jesus narrates the entire process of Creation! From the Supreme God, the great angel Autogenes is created, He soon creates another league of angels (“aeons”) to aid Him. They create the luminaries who are to govern portions of the Universe. Figures like 6, 12, 72 and 360 are used to define the orderliness of creation. Then from the perfect aeons it branches out to Saklas and Nebro, then to Seth and Adamas until the “accidental creation” of the human race.

At the night of the Passover, Jesus and his apostles are talking. Judas shares his vision: he was being stoned, cursed and hated by the twelve apostles. He was hated by the entire world. In reply, Jesus reveals that Judas will have to make the ultimate sacrifice to release Jesus from the physical body that wraps him. Jesus says, “You will be greater than them all, for you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.”

The passage reveals a very deep-seated philosophy of early Gnosticism. It speaks of the doctrine of reincarnation! Jesus shows how the body is likened to clothing which the soul wears and removes in a given lifetime. For the Gnostics, the body is just a material vehicle which the soul uses for self-expression and self-perfection. In the end, if the soul has gained divine perfection through gnosis, the prison body must then be shed off. Jesus’ death would then signal the completion of Christ’s mission as a preacher of Gnostic truth.

Thus, in the Gospel of Judas, Jesus arranges his own death and asks his brother Judas to hand him over the Romans. Judas obeyed.

A Sudden Ending

The Gospel of Judas abruptly ends with Judas receiving the coins from the high priests, as Jesus is handed down to the Romans. In a few hours, the Christ’s ever-celebrated Passion-Death-Resurrection mantra would commence.

The author of the Gospel of Judas might have aimed to rehabilitate Judas’ identity in history. Throughout the gospel, the author assumed a very angry mood. He was despising the disciples…

Perhaps Judas might have foreseen that his unlikely obedience would turn him from the great traitor we know to the greatest hero in history. His ultimate sacrifice could sound the death knell to his life-sentence. If it be true, then he is not to be ridiculed but to be thanked.

The Gospel of Judas and the other Gnostic gospels are but reminders for us to reassess what we have as Christians. It is no more a question of whether the Gospel is authentic or not, but rather it is a question of faith.

We may never know who exactly wrote these gospels and why they were written. But their existence does not entirely mean that they are the absolute truth. They may be false. They may be true. But we do know one thing. We still have our own free will to choose what to believe in.

Judas had his…

Pottermore Interview

What's your Pottermore username?
PatronusOak114

What House do you think it sounds like?
It sounds like Gryffindor because it sounded generic. Wizards do use spells, and the number 114 sounds like it's a multiple of 7 (although it really isn't) which is a number that holds a very mystical meaning for me. There are a lot of 7's in the magical kingdom.

What House do you want to be in?
Ravenclaw! I always wanted to be in Ravenclaw because it thrills me to think that the house is very exclusive. Not to brag, but you really have to be smart to get sorted here, ‘coz if not, then you have to wait for someone else to arrive to give the correct answer to get past through the Ravenclaw entrance.

Does your username relate to you at all?
Yes, a bit. It seems to me a very magical username (but I guess all are). Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve always believed in magic. I’ve always thought that there are things in this world that could not be explained by orthodox science. Even up to now, I firmly believe in paranormal and psychic phenomena. Having been raised within a culturally superstitious community, I would have a hard time putting out this belief from my system.

(The Patronus charm is an advanced sort of incantation that wards off evil (dementors). It fits me well because I have mostly been part of an advanced class or a member of an honor organization that aims to dispel ignorance. The term Patronus suits me well. The term Oak does me well too! Oaks are ancient and mysteries. Some legends say that oak trees are dwelling places of magical entities like fairies and dwarves. I can't seem to find any relevance with the number 114 to my life.)

What kind of wand would you wish to get?
I would rather use a wand made from a wood or tree from my native land. I mean. I have never even seen a holly, elder nor a hawthorn tree. I would prefer my wand to be made from a special native tree called Kamagong tree (Mabolo fruit,  Diospyros blancoi) related to the ebony tree. Its wood is very dense, hard and “unyielding.”It’s very difficult to carve or break. The core should be that of a phoenix tail feather or a unicorn hair.

What I got was Black Walnut, 11 1/2 inches, with dragon core. I'm okay with it!

Are you pure, half-blooded or Muggle-born?
I think I’m a pure-blood. My father came from a remote locale where supernatural activities are almost part of daily living (I’m telling the truth). My mother is from an urban state, but she has this unusual affinity for the unexplained. She loves Feng Shui and incantations (prayers).

Which day did you get into Pottermore?
Day 2 (August 1, 2011)! On July 31, 2012, I visited the Pottermore website only to find out that there was this magical contest to find the magical quill. And Day 1 was over. So I decided not to sleep for Day 2. I was closely monitoring the Pottermore page for any changes. I even installed a Chrome extension that refreshes a page every 5 minutes.

What shape is your Patronus?
It would be a tapir. This will be a great Patronus. The Tapir – the eater of nightmares!

What does your boggart look like?
It would be me, in rugged clothing, begging for food and coin!

Would you rather be an Animagus or a Matamorphmagus?
Animagus. Although being a Metamorphmagus allows you to morph your anatomy (to which many males may find interesting), I’d still prefer being a total animal. Being an animal won’t look as freaky as being a human with a pig’s ear!

 If you were an Animagus, what animal would you be?
I’d rather be a tiny bird (a Eurasian tree sparrow). I would fly around houses and spy on people! They would never suspect that I’m an Animagus, because sparrows are pretty common. They perch on almost every spot!

The Church and the Aliens

The Catholic Church says EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE does NOT conflict with the Church's teachings.

I say the Church just wants to go ahead of the game.

They anticipated that the disclosure by science that Aliens do exist is imminent. Church leaders know that the evidences for extraterrestrial life is hard to debunk. Hardcore modern day scientists attest that alien life is completely rational when taking into account the vastness of the universe. Even high-ranking U.S. military officials could no longer hide the undeniable fact that aliens have visited the earth since the dawn of the early civilizations. (Remember the Roswell crash in 1947?)

World leaders also hinted to the nearing of a worldwide information disclosure about extraterrestrial life. What do you think would happen if UFO's and aliens had suddenly been proven to be true? Won't the Church have some heavy explaining to do? Won't the Church crumple to pieces if it can't provide possible explanations?

To avoid confusing its followers, the Church went ahead and proclaimed that Alien life is compatible with its doctrines! Silly Vatican. Here goes my own Catholic Church saying NOW that there may be aliens out there, when it ONCE ordered the killing of people who had believed in alien life 500 years ago. Poor people who were burned at the sakes and fed to the lions.

On LGBT Rights

Same-sex marriage, an abomination?

MANY FILIPINO CATHOLIC PEOPLE ARE SOOOOOOO NARROW-MINDED! Being RELIGIOUS is different from being SPIRITUAL. You can go to church every day and pretend to understand the Word of God, but still be NON-SPIRITUAL!

By Grzegorz Wysocki

RELIGION is a cultural myth! And to you guys quoting verses from the BIBLE??? Know your history! Don't you even know the origins of the Bible? Let us assume God wrote it through human hands. But history would tell you straight in the face that the BIBLE had been EXPURGATED and EDITED and CENSORED by my dearly beloved CATHOLIC CHURCH more than 1000 years ago! Now, we, Christians, are sooooooo narrow-minded that despite the eruption of new AUTHENTIC ancient GOSPELS (Gospels of Judas, Mary, Thomas) during the last 50 years, we still chose to refuse to believe!

Same-sex marriage may be thought as a VIOLATION of HUMAN NATURE. But look at this: people in the middle ages had also thought that having a terrible disease is a curse of GOD. No one ever thought that disease was caused by microorganisms. Yet, the proponents of this modern-day disease theory, like Louis Pasteur, were ostracized by religious fanatics; and so was Nicholaus Copernicus for thinking that the Sun was the center of the universe; and so was Aristotle for thinking that the Earth was round; and so were the EARLY CHRISTIANS for believing in a god named Christ!

Now, IN THESE TIMES, who would NOT know that diseases can be caused by microbes? that the Earth is round? that the Sun is the center of the solar system? that there are more than 2 billion Christians worldwide???

Who are we to judge what SHOULD BE and what SHOULD NOT BE? 

When did we even feel the need to classify a person to what group he belongs?

Why do we always think that what is common is right?

Where should we lay our beliefs?

How does one know what is and what is not?

You see, history is repeating itself. And the reason is clear: it's because humanity fails to learn what should have already been learnt. These LGBT people are being mocked, NOW. They comprise the marginalized sector of our land.

BUT KNOW ALL MEN . . . that Time may come soon enough when the prevailing social norm may no longer mandate heterosexual union; for the LGBT group may pretty much be like Louis Pasteur, Nicholaus Copernicus, Aristotle or the early Christians. They may be holding to themselves what is wrong today, but will be right tomorrow.

Mount Pulag: A Journey to the Heavens

It was a great experience. I've seen sunrise and sunset many times, but those are nothing compared to what I've seen at the summit of Mount Pulag.

I've seen how protected this place is, how the indigenous people tried to preserve the beauty of their place. I've seen that there is hope. For when the sun sets in the west, you'd expect it to rise on a different place, in the east.

Life's like that, I guess. It's a never ending cycle of sunsets and sunrises.

Project DIO-MAN-JI

FAMILY – THE CELL OF SOCIETY

What is a family?

How well a family works together and how well it can organize itself against potential threats depend on who its members are and the activities or roles the family members carry out. Recognizing different family structures allows health care providers to focus on family-centered care or provide a family-friendly environment for care.

A family is traditionally defined as a group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption. However this definition is limited when assessing a family for its health concerns or the support people available because some families are made up of unrelated couples, and at certain points in life not all family members may live together. A broader definition of family is then formulated. A family then is two or more people who live in the same household, share a common emotional bond, and perform certain interrelated social task. This definition addresses the broad range of types of families that health care providers often encounter.  Our chosen family – the “Diomanji” family – worked immensely hard for so long a time to fit this definition.

By context, we define “family client” as a group of people who live in the same household, share a common emotional bond, and perform certain interrelated social tasks to which health care is directed. With the aid of health care providers, the family client is the co-facilitator of its own care.

But such care can only be achieved if health workers dedicate themselves to mastering an organized and dynamic approach towards health. The Family Health Care Process is a deliberate activity where the practice of a health worker is performed in a systematic manner wherein the health worker utilizes comprehensive knowledge as a base to assess the family’s health status. Involving in the health care process entails making judicious statements of health problems and to plan, implement and evaluate the plan of care.

To every successful activity, planning is an essential factor. It is expected of a health worker to be always geared towards achieving optimum health care provision for his/her clients. This can be carried out through having a properly prepared nursing health care plan, where interventions are purposely made for a specific family client.

FAMILY HEALTH CARE
A Family Health Care Plan (FHCP) is the blueprint of care that the nurse designs to systematically minimize or eliminate the identified health and family nursing problems through explicitly formulated outcomes of care and deliberately chosen set of interventions, resources, and evaluation criteria, standards, methods and tools.

The importance of the Family Health Care Plan is as follows:

1. It individualizes care to clients. Planning facilitates the delivery of the most appropriate care by considering the uniqueness of each client.

2. The nursing care plan helps in setting priorities by providing information about the client as well as the nature of his problems. From the available data, the nurse sets his priorities for care.

3. The nursing care plan promotes systematic communication among those involved in the health care effort. Problems are defined and the details to resolve the nursing interventions are present.

4. Continuity of care is facilitated through the use of nursing care plans. Gaps and duplications in the services provided are minimized, if not totally eliminated.

5. Nursing care plans facilitate the coordination of care by making known to other members of the health team what the nurse is doing. Coordination of care prevents fragmentation of services and increases the efficiency of health service delivery system.

Developing a Family Health Care Plan involves many steps:

a. the prioritized condition/s or problems based on its nature, modifiability, preventive potential and salience
b. the goals and objectives of nursing care. We should formulate (a) expected outcomes which include conditions to be observed and client response/s or behavior, and (b) specific, measurable client-centered statements.

c. the plan of interventions, where the nurse (a) decides on family-centered alternatives, and measures to help the family eliminate barriers and underlying causes of health tasks; (b) determines methods of nurse-family contact; and (c) identifies specifies resources needed.

d. the plan for evaluating, where we should specify outcomes based on methods and objectives of care.

At the end of the family-health care worker relationship, the family is expected to continue strengthening their health potentials and minimizing, if not totally eliminating, the health risks and problems. The family must have also learned all the teachings on health promotion and disease prevention taught to them by the health care provider/s. Moreover, such teachings should be applied and practiced in their daily living. The outcomes that will result from our family health care plan will be our basis in modifying, changing or terminating our plan of care. We as health care providers should still keep in touch with the family client even after the family health plan implementation so as to establish continuity of care.

KNOWING THIS UNIQUE FAMILY

A single mother, a handicapped son and an aunt – they form the triad of the “Diomanji” family’s humble abode. Situated in the upper fragments of the mountainous terrains of Amgaleyguey, Buguias, Benguet is the brick house of the family, a house that surpassed the bone-chilling cold, blinding fog and treacherous mountain rocks. For more than a decade, it is here where they live; for many years, it is here where they start dreaming of a better life; for almost their entire lifetime, it is here where they think dreams would forever just be dreams.

The event was glorious. Fourteen shivering individuals freed themselves of the red van’s confines. Twelve were college students, one was an instructor, the other was the driver who might have forgotten that the ones riding in his van were people and not Buguias vegetables. These individuals stepped out to the cold and unforgiving atmosphere with only their flimsy jackets and mittens on. They were still nauseated.

Then it happened. A family of twelve and a family of three – two families bound to meet unknowingly at a certain junction in the most highly-elevated highway at a certain hour of a foggy morning on a certain duty day. Was this luck?

Behind the blurry spectacle that the clouds had brought, there lay the silhouette of a woman seemingly waiting outside of a familiar brick house. She seemed to face away, a reason for the twelve to notice a bulk on her back. It was strapped on a white cloth with its ends tied around her left shoulder. The bulk let out an unusual whimper. The bulk was moving.

It was “Baby Manny” – the one whom the community duty instructor was talking about weeks ago. At first, the little child seemed like he was only one-and-a-half years old. But he is not. He is already five years old. He is severely malnourished. As if this little boy’s malady is not enough, he has another handicap that cripples him to his ill bed. He has cerebral palsy.

Then there were more. While the student nurses continued with their history taking and physical assessment of the family, more and more of the family’s dilemma surfaced to dig deep into the students’ hearts, one by one. The father has left them for another family. They have very scarce funds for their daily living. They all have physical ailments… and more… It’s as if the world has forsaken them. It was heartbreaking.

At that time, the role of being community health student nurses dawned upon the twelve individuals as they started providing the care that they can give to this humble family. They have little time left to do the best they can – very little time, indeed.

A single mother, a handicapped son and an aunt – they struggle to fill the gaps of their own living. They struggle to attain a status with which they can be called a family.

KNOWING THE CHALLENGERS
What did Baby Manny and her family do to receive these? An infinitesimal question that knows no answer, just yet… Luck or destiny might have played their roles to this family. But who is to blame? The answer is a needle on a haystack. Cerebral palsy (in severe malnutrition), and stroke are the respective ailments that Baby Manny and Auntie Dionisia were fighting against.

According to Wikipedia website, Cerebral palsy (CP) is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, motor, non-contagious conditions that cause physical disability in human development.

Cerebral refers to the cerebrum, which is the affected area of the brain (although the disorder most likely involves connections between the cortex and other parts of the brain such as the cerebellum), and palsy refers to disorder of movement. CP is caused by damage to the motor control centers of the developing fetal brain and can occur during pregnancy (about 75 percent), during childbirth (about 5 percent) or after birth (about 15 percent) up to about age three.

It describes a group of permanent disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation, that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances that occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, communication, and behavior, by epilepsy, and by secondary musculoskeletal problems.

There is no known cure for CP. Medical intervention is limited to the treatment and prevention of complications arising from CP's effects.

On the other hand, stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia (lack of blood supply) caused by thrombosis or embolism or due to a hemorrhage. As a result, the affected area of the brain is unable to function, leading to inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body, inability to understand or formulate speech, or inability to see one side of the visual field. In the past, stroke was referred to as cerebrovascular accident or CVA, but the term "stroke" is now preferred.

A stroke is a medical emergency and can cause permanent neurological damage (as manifested by Auntie Dionisia), complications, and death. It is the number two cause of death worldwide and may soon become the leading cause of death worldwide. Risk factors for stroke include advanced age, hypertension (high blood pressure), previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), diabetes, high cholesterol diet, cigarette smoking and atrial fibrillation. High blood pressure is the most important modifiable risk factor of stroke.

Now there are many other conditions that restrain the Diomanji family from improving their health state, be it in the physical, emotional, mental and financial level. It is up to us student nurses to try to educate and empower them to live a healthy lifestyle to the best of their abilities.

Impossible? For student nurses who are ever so willing to try, impossible is nothing!