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Bucaya Family’s Spiritual Journey – Testimony
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ur family spiritual journey was a bittersweet experience as our whole family acquired Covid-19 back in January this year on its 2nd wave. During that time, everybody was terrified of the virus as the 1st dose of vaccine was recently initiated to health care professionals working in acute care and senior home facilities with Covid-19 outbreak. As one of the staff working in a senior home heavily impacted by the Covid-19 cases, I acquired the virus and infected my husband Erick, my 9-year-old son Tutz and my parents, who were part of our household. My father, who was frail for a year and bed-bound for a few months, needed to be treated in the hospital which my mother joined him in the
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same unit after three days of his hospital confinement. I was recovering from the virus, both of my parents in the hospital, a husband whom I dropped off to emergency for his worsening symptoms, and a Covid (+) son driving with me to and from the hospital. I had no choice but to be strong for my whole family and no one to rely on but to God, for His divine intervention to heal my family, especially my ill father who was fighting for his life, on the antibiotic course, oxygen, IV, and unable to eat and drink. Hospital doctors have told me multiple times that he may not surpass the virus. I prayed hard and hoped that God would extend my father's life. I can't let go... I wasn’t ready to give up on my dad yet. I approached a dear friend struggling with the same pain
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We lost my father to Covid-19 on his last day of antibiotic treatment. We lost him but found a spiritual family. as mine (we work together in the same Covid unit). A friend who happens to be married to a Seventh-day Adventist husband who was admitted to ICU in the same hospital where my parents were for Covid-19 unmanageable symptoms. My friend and I would talk on the phone, both crying about what happened to our families. I seek spiritual support from her husband's Adventist Ministry to extend
