Loving Your Liver

Last week, my mom went on a staycation with a group of friends in a hotel in Manila.

- Chichi Barba

These were her friends from her old caring group in the Light of Jesus Family. I’ve known them for more than two decades and most of them already have their senior citizen cards. On their first day, my mom asked me to visit them at the hotel. Her friends wanted to talk to me before the staycation started.

Curious, I went to meet them. After exchanging greetings, the questions started pouring in. Seated while surrounded by all these titos and titas, I spent an enjoyable, story-filled hour and a half trying to answer all their questions.

About what?

When people reach sixty, they start “feeling” their age and become more conscious about going through regular health checkups. But if maintaining good health through a balanced, healthy diet has not been a previous habit, the yearly physical checkup usually results in the doctor asking the patient to be on maintenance meds.