A Hospital Experience

Last week i was geared up for our first out of town trip which i have planned months before ( my vl was filed as early as june). Unfortunately, the night before we were to leave, my princess was down with fever and we had to cancel the trip. What seemed to be a harmless fever shoot up to 42 degrees the next day and we suddenly found ourselves in the emergency room of St Luke's Hospital. What was scheduled as a vacation turned out to be a couple of nights stay in the said expensive hospital (thank God for health cards) and all our baons were consumed in the hospital, making it look a picnic for the whole family. I will never forget the look on Julia's face when she was shaking/having chills due to high fever, and when the interns were were inserting the IV on her left hand, i was literally sobbing in tears. If only i could spare her from all the pain she went through that ordeal. And we were relieved when the lab tests showed negative for dengue, instead apparently she took something that made her tummy bad, thus explaining the acute gastrointiritis diagnosis. After almost 2 days, the fever was gone and she was almost back to normal, sorting through our baon and playing with the cellphone.

I know all families will have to go through this experience one way or the other, but i do hope this will be the last one for ours. Although i have to admit that made our family stronger, I wouldn't want to go through that ordeal ever again.