This is not good for my productivity. My desire to write a long piece today has gone from 80% to zero.
Given that I am emotionally and physically spent, I am so much tempted to sleep in and ignore work. Just beg off and say I’m sick. But I can’t. Majority of editors are still on holiday.
Last night, I saw Twin A struggling with school work because she was exhausted and wanted to sleep. Poor thing went to bed last night at 11 pm after our battle with her Math homework. She has to get up at 5 am because school bus comes at 6:45 am. Can’t skip breakfast because she has a cocktail of medicines to take.
My struggle now is how to help her gain weight. I just bought from Lazada a new digital weighing scale since I lost my old one from the move. Aside from the weekly uric acid test, we should be monitoring her weight and record the changes (or no change). I’m not sure if our doctors are using weight as one of the markers for drug response/resistance (as one study from the Philippines suggested) since her GeneXpert result was negative. The GeneXpert assay was supposed to determine the susceptibility and drug resistance of the MTB found.
My fear is that she is not gaining fast enough since she does not have enough sleep to recover because of homework load. She still has dark circles around her eyes that show she is not well.
Never-ending anxiety coiling inside me. I still couldn’t get a schedule for MRI and my priority is to have it done at PGH because I do not trust other hospitals. Imagine, our old hospital thought she had nodules all around when they were in fact calcification, hence, lymphoma was already ruled out in the second opinion/reading. 🤦🏻♀️
I would just like to say I am floored that a pop drummer was able to do Slipknot and gave her own spin on it. When you have talent and know your instrument, it doesn’t matter what your genre is—you can cross over.
And this guy, the session drummer for Madonna and Michael Jackson, takes on Linkin Park. He is completely self-taught—doesn’t do charts and write drum beats but man, he plays on the fly by completely feeling the song and adjusting on real time. That’s real talent.
Meanwhile, I spoke to the Radiology Dept at PGH and the earliest schedule I could get is Oct 25th and I must rush to have my daughter’s creatinine blood test taken tomorrow because the MRI is for full abdomen with contrast. Then I should go to PGH to submit the medical abstract and MRI order plus I will be interviewed for the full history of the patient.
I don’t know how I will shoehorn everything within this week but I must find ways.
I was chatting with my sister-in-law this afternoon regarding my schedule for the blood tests, follow up check up with our IDS, and the submission of docs to PGH, when this happened.
I was using my phone when I was chatting with her then this appeared.
And true enough, I came to my room and saw this:
