Every morning me and my wife rise up early for the market.It's a a daily routine or shall I say a daily date. When we got home, my mother was so dizzy, high blood maybe. so I rushed her to the hospital. when we're on the hospital the emergency room was not that busy. she underwent a couple of lab test good to hear its not that serious. we have to stay...waiting for her blood pressure to normalize. Boredom came to me after 10 minutes. everything that moves never slips my keen eye.
some nurse chats ..some are busy, then a loud cry caught my attention. a baby girl beside my moms bed, nurses huddled around her. I learned that the nurse cannot get a strong vein for the dextrose. The child is dehydrated, has a high fever and pale. she badly needed fluid. though her mother never talks you can see in her eyes that she's panicking. she cannot put the lip of mineral water bottle easily on her child mouth, she trembles and when the nurse talks she just stare as if she cannot comprehend on what is happening. It's been four hours since they arrived. almost everyones eye in the room is on them, "Lord please help this child" I whisper and I know that I am not the only one whose praying for her. after a few minutes the nurse shout's "thank you lord". The dextrose has been placed and the stream of life saving fluid flows.
her mom broke in tears, some people in the room did. well I must admit, tears almost fell on the edge of my eyes. We chit-chat with the mother and told us that its been 2 days that the child is in high fever and when asked why she didn't bring her child "wala po kasi kaming perang kahit pamasahe papunta dito while crying" ( we don't have money even fare to go here).
Maybe God did it on purpose. He put us beside that girl to open our eyes. To learn and be thankful on what we have.I learned that life can changed suddenly and may caught me flat footed. I've learned that even the darkest side of life, there are people who suffers more than you do. The mother, who sometimes cannot buy medicines no money for the fare to bring the child to the hospital. still clings and believe to God. And what a contrast to most of us who are quick to point out to our misfortunes when caught with our mistakes. In them, I've learned to hope for things when things seem to go the other way.
I may lost all of my money on my pocket that day but I gained a fortune on how to go through on this journey called life.
I know that God cares for them far more than I do. That though He allowed them to experience such a terrible life which our finite minds cannot comprehend, His unquestionable love will surely follow them through.
I know their time will come...a time they will not regret that they trust their life to God.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
it was not an ordinary day
Monday, May 18, 2009
nuggets
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Leia Mais…PROBLEMA FOR SALE
isang titig sa kawalan gamit ang balintataw na di alam kung san nakasilay, d alam kung ano ang unang iisipin...ano ang unang hakbang na gagawin at ano ang uunahin sa mga suliranin.
Kung pwede lang na ibenta ito...blockbuster to sigurado...
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Leia Mais…Tuesday, May 5, 2009
nuggets
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
“People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?”
Friday, May 1, 2009
"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.”
Leia Mais…confusion about swine flu............
Paris Hilton says "I don't eat that" when asked about swine flu in an online video. She's not the only one confused about the outbreak.
Others have vowed to stop eating pork. Some, worried about germs spreading in confined spaces, won't fly — anywhere. Or they think petting zoos and farm visits are off limits.
Like the swine flu itself, misinformation is spreading like a virus across the Internet, around the watercooler and across the backyard fence. Here are some facts to dispel myths about swine flu.
Q: Should I avoid pork?
A: There's no evidence that swine flu spreads through pork. While it's important to cook it properly to protect against other germs, experts say even handling raw pork poses no realistic risk of swine flu.
Q: What about airplanes — aren't airline cabins breeding grounds for germs?
A: Vice President Joe Biden suggested he believes that when he said Thursday he has advised his family not to fly. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises against going to Mexico, the country hardest hit by swine flu. And public health officials say people with flu symptoms should avoid public transportation. But they aren't telling healthy people to avoid all air travel, and Obama administration representatives later said Biden had misspoken.
Most modern airliners have air filtering systems that are as efficient at weeding out germs as those used in hospital isolation units. While there have been occasional infectious disease outbreaks associated with airplane travel, they're not common, and generally only people within a few rows of the sick individual have gotten sick.
"We shouldn't go overboard" on limiting air travel, said Dr. Mark Dworkin, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago. But he said it's a good idea to check the CDC's Web site before making travel plans because the agency's advisories may change as the outbreak develops.
Q: My child's preschool class is planning a visit to a petting zoo — with piglets. Should we skip it?
A: Dr. Kenneth Alexander, the University of Chicago's pediatric infectious disease chief, says there's no danger in touching pigs, although a sneezing, sick-looking animal should be avoided. Adults also should be vigilant about making sure kids keep their hands away from their faces after contact with farm animals and they should always wash their hands thoroughly afterward.
Q: My child is healthy and there are no reports of flu at her school, but I'd feel more comfortable keeping her home for a while.
A: Right now, public health authorities say there's no reason to restrict healthy children if there's no flu at school. That could change if the outbreak turns into a global pandemic.
Q: If this outbreak is declared a real worldwide pandemic, tens of millions will get sick and die, just like in the 1918 Spanish flu — right?
A: Public health officials say there are a lot of reasons why that's unlikely, at least in the United States. Unlike that crisis, we now have flu-fighting medicines and antibiotics for secondary infections such as pneumonia, which killed many people during the 1918 outbreak.
Because it appears to be a novel flu strain, everyone exposed to the virus is at risk of getting sick. Authorities are trying to determine how aggressive the new flu is, but even if it turns out to be a particularly dangerous strain, the United States and other developed countries have a strong surveillance network and comprehensive public health measures that didn't exist in 1918, Dworkin noted.
If the new flu turns out to be similar to regular seasonal flu, as some authorities predict, Dworkin said it might double the number of illnesses and deaths seen in an average flu season. In the United States, that would mean about 70,000 deaths and more than 400,000 hospitalizations.
In developing nations, without strong public health networks, the situation could be more dire.
"It could do much more harm than we would see in a country like ours," Dworkin said.
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