MARGIENARY

In the beginning, God made the heavens and the earth, and the rest were made in China! :)

I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes soon after I was told that my ultrasonography showed a string of pearls in my ovaries, i.e. a polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Any woman with PCOS has a high risk of developing diabetes later in life.  Well, later-in-life came to me too soon, unlucky me. My dad is a Type2 Diabetic also and that increased my predisposition to the disease.  He died a month ago of unexplained causes.  He was an active man, hiking all over the mountains of Nueva Vizcaya almost on a weekly basis.  I believe now that his death was diabetes-related.  Maybe his heart gave up just like that due to some systemic anomaly caused by an episode of too much or maybe too little sugar in his blood.  I regret now why I was not forceful enough in telling him to pay closer attention to his illness and suggest other remedies after he decided to just quit his Metformin medications due to its uncomfortable side effects.  His death caused me to surf the...

B and I went for our annual break this month and this year we decided to visit Cebu and Davao City. We left our house at