Fourth Quarter And Thirty Nine Seconds

Roman Antonio Miguel Sola or Omie as we would fondly call him has been my friend neigh my best friend since forever. He is fighting for his life at a hospital in the Philippines confined within the Intensive Care Unit after suffering from a lethal combination of Brain Aneurism and Heart Attack all at the same time which is not a very common condition. His doctors are having a hard time in treating him.



My friends, this will be the last blog that I will be posting for now not until I find out if there are any significant developments within Omie's condition. In lieu of this I will be posting regular updates based on the information that I will be gathering from his pastor and church members whenever I have the chance. I am asking all of you to please pray daily for my friend and check my blogsite daily for regular updates...oh and please post a comment preferably words of encouragement or prayers for Omie and his family, friends and church members after reading the updates on this blogsite. You can even start posting them right now after you've read this. Pastor Chaz (his Pastor and one of my best friends) takes the nightshift daily at the ICU watching over Omie at his bedside he sometimes gets to talk to Omie by getting close to his ears so Omie can hear the words he sez. Chaz can use these comments/prayers to encourage Omie, his family, friends and church members for them to know that they are not alone that though we recognize that the "battle belongs to the Lord" we are all in this together for Omie in perhaps the greatest battle of his life with our Lord Jesus leading the way. I really don't care who you are I may not even know some of you who will be posting these comments but that is not important to me or to Omie. What is important is a for all of us in Blogland to have a cohesive show of support for Omie. I will be transmiting the comments you have posted to the church members friends and family of Omie who have been distraught and disheartened by this very daunting event in their lives. The more posting of comments I get the better this would show the family, friends and church members of Omie and of course Omie himself that they are not alone in this fight therefore making them feel all the more encouraged.



This would also help me as I myself am coping from all these. I have had sleepless nights waiting for my phone to ring anticipating at what the latest update would bring. I end today's blog by sharing what went through my head as I was watching the Superbowl match last Sunday between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. I remember if memory serves me right that the Giants only had thirty nine seconds during the last quarter to pull one off for the team and become this year's champs. Eli Manning, the Giants' quarterback led his team to victory at those crucial last seconds of the game. I think about the game and I can't help but compare it to Omie's situation he may not be out of the woods yet but God (our team's quarterback) can lead us into the last crucial seconds of the game to victory for as long as it is within His will, either way no matter what the outcome is Omie will still emerge a winner because of his faith and love for the Lord.

Finally I would like to thank you and for your support in behalf of Omie may our good Lord continually bless all of you.



"If one part of the body suffers every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it."

1Corinthians 12:26

Update February 6 from Pastor Chaz: Omie's condition is still critical but maybe a little worse; Docs are telling us to be patient and pray...so that's what we do.

Update February 7 from Pastor Chaz: Omie's condition is a little worse there is blood coming from his brain again he still responds well to your name. Please continue to pray for him. Thank you and God bless.

Update February 8 from Dr. Tellet Pedutem (member of Omie's Church): Omie has pneumonia and prone to infection we are still in a waiting mode, I talked to Omie's attending physician and it seems that if Omie survives this riverting back to normal maybe a difficult either he becomes a vegeteble or have a childlike demeanor. But then Phenjie ... Nothing is Impossible with God!!!