DR. BANICO

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                    [Title] => My first blessing
                    [Summary] => What did I do right? Is this a miracle? Am I just so naturally brilliant that these things happen to me? I have received my first blessing in 2006 and it is so major that my life has changed. My mother and I are friends again. She no longer hates me and I can come down and spend some time with her daily. It is wonderful. Let me tell you how it happened.


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                    [Title] => On strokes and Alzheimer’s
                    [Summary] => I called up my neurologist’s office to find out her appointment schedule. It was 10:30 a.m. and I was told she would be there until noon. "Does she have any more patients?" I asked. No, I was told. I told her secretary I would rush over, hopped into the shower, threw on a coral skirt and T-shirt, dumped five minutes of makeup on my face, donned my newest, smartest earrings that may friend Marl gave on my birthday, and went rushing out. The hospital is just down the street from where I live. It was close to the second anniversary of my stroke, you see, and I wanted to see Dr.
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                    [Title] => Give me a simple road
                    [Summary] => Was the road to recovery simple? Is there anything in my life that’s simple? In the beginning everything was quiet. I just followed instructions from my children and when there were none I slept and knitted. I did not think. My mind was either blank, disconnected or tired. That’s how September passed and October too except I was beginning to feel more active. I think I was sleeping later – around eight-thirty – and knitting more, knitting constantly. I was playing with my grandchildren and enjoying it more. 


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                    [Title] => Road to recovery
                    [Summary] => It is early in the morning. We head for Makati Medical Center, make straight for the emergency room, straight for the x-ray section deep inside. I am with my two daughters, Sarri and Panjee, and they are in charge. I go in for all manner of x-rays. I take an MRI and sleep in it. Dr. Banico, my neurosurgeon who I am meeting for the first time, arrives. She is young and pretty. I like her immediately. Apparently, the night before they came to see me, my daughters spoke to my former therapist and described my weird behavior. "I think your mother has had a stroke," she said.
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My first blessing

By Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura | January 14, 2006 - 12:00am

What did I do right? Is this a miracle? Am I just so naturally brilliant that these things happen to me? I have received my first blessing in 2006 and it is so major that my life has changed. My mother and I are...

Modern Living

On strokes and Alzheimer’s

By Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura | September 10, 2005 - 12:00am

I called up my neurologist’s office to find out her appointment schedule. It was 10:30 a.m. and I was told she would be there until noon. "Does she have any more patients?" I asked. No, I was told....

Modern Living

Give me a simple road

By Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura | August 14, 2004 - 12:00am

Was the road to recovery simple? Is there anything in my life that’s simple? In the beginning everything was quiet. I just followed instructions from my children and when there were none I slept and knitted....

Modern Living

Road to recovery

By Barbara Gonzalez-Ventura | August 7, 2004 - 12:00am

It is early in the morning. We head for Makati Medical Center, make straight for the emergency room, straight for the x-ray section deep inside. I am with my two daughters, Sarri and Panjee, and they are in charge....

Modern Living