Manghihilot

Two Sundays ago, my friend’s 90 year old manghihilot paid her a visit. After their session, I borrowed Lola Cita from her and treated myself to a well-deserved hilot (massage). You see, for several weeks now, my shoulder muscles have been feeling stiff, perhaps due to the fact that I’ve been babywearing my son for the most part of the day every single day since I got my sling in late August. That translates to carrying 6 kilos of weight for around roughly 900 hours! Whew! No wonder I was feeling so sore.

Lola Cita is not your ordinary lola. Unlike other elderly people, she is not at all stooped. She can still climb up and down the stairs without any difficulty. She can still read the newspaper without any reading glasses. She attributes her good health to her vegetarian lifestyle.

Her grip was surprisingly strong, firm and forceful for someone her age. Her expert hands really soothed my tired body. And she was so fun to be with! My daughter, yaya and I were doubling over with laughter with her stories and jokes. While going down the stairs, my Yaya told her, Lola ingat po baka matalisod kayo. You know what she said? Anong mag-ingat, gusto mo maghabulan pa tayo dito eh! Hahaha! She was really so hilarious but the fun ended abruptly when she lifted her hands off my body saying, o ayan tapos na. So soon? I was so bitin! We’ve only been into it for just about 20 minutes, I was just starting to warm up, tapos yun na pala lahat yon? Tapos na?!

Oh well, okay na rin since she only charged me 100 bucks for it.

She said she’ll be back every Sunday for 4 consecutive weeks and on the 4th Sunday, she’ll massage my tummy so that my womb will go back to it’s pre-pregnancy size. Yay! That means no more bilbil!

So I waited and waited for her last Sunday but she didn’t come! Haay, I was so looking forward to it pa naman…..