Gary  kinuwestiyon ang Diyos nang magkasunod na nagkasakit

MA at PA
ni Rommel Placente

SA panayam kay Gary Valenciano ni Karen Davila para sa kanyang YouTube channel, nagbahagi siya ng mga pinagdaanan sa buhay nitong mga nagdaang taon, kabilang na ang pagkakasakit.

Isa sa mga naitanong sa kanya ay kung naramdaman ba niyang katapusan na ng kanyang buhay dahil sa pagkakaroon ng iba’t ibang sakit?

Sabi ni Gary, “I never thought this is it, but I told myself if this is it. I think I’ve left behind enough to continue the legacy. My music will continue to plant seed on good soil and that’s okay na with me.

“I can’t complain, eh. I’ve been given an awesome wife and then I have great children who are now spreading their wings and flying so what else pa? But siyempre there was that fear of could this be it? But I didn’t think that this is probably the moment I’m going to die, no,” aniya pa.

Naisip din ba niya na baka hindi na siya makapag-perform tulad ng dati matapos sumailalim sa open-heart surgery.

“For a while. You know, just to put up my hand.. it kinda hurts parang magbubukas (‘yung dibdib).

“But the one that got me which made me feel I’m not going to be the same again, which was a lie, was when I was down, and it was the first time I was going to go on the bike. I ride bikes all the time and I didn’t have the strength,” ani Gary.

Kasunod nito, unti-unti na ngang bumuti ang kondisyon ni Gary pero makalipas ang dalawang linggo, na-diagnose siya ng cancer sa kidney. Nang dahil dito, may pagkakataon na kinuwestiyon din niya ang Panginoon.

“I did question na what is this all for, wasn’t this enough? Isn’t the diabetes enough? What is this? But when I looked at the bigger picture here, if I didn’t have the bypass, they would have not diagnosed the kidney with cancer because there were no symptoms.

“I had symptoms in my chest area, but I did not any symptoms (sa kidney). Even when I had operation, the reason they did a CT scan because there was another problem that occurred which was they called pleural effusions, wherein I ended up having fluids on my left lung,” pagbabahagi pa ni Gary kay Karen.

Nahirapan daw ang iconic OPM artist na ipagtapat ang pagkakaroon ng kidney cancer sa kanyang pamilya.

“I shed tears when I had to tell my son Paolo (Valenciano).

“That was kinda difficult to say because I know the family were all shook up when they found out that I was going to have a bypass and I come to them two weeks later with [them thinking] that I was healing and tell them I have cancer. And [the cancer] was big 4cm x 6cm. It is as big as a child’s fist,” kuwento pa ng tinaguriang Mr. Pure Energy.

Taong 2018 nang ibalita sa kanya ng doktor na cancer free matapos sumailalim sa chemotherapy at radiation.

“When God restores, He’s not going to bring you back to the former, He always brings you back higher than where you were before.

“I experienced that time and time again. 

“I experienced that time and time again, so I say that with confidence,” sey pa ni Gary Valenciano.