Last week we hit 22,366 and it seems like we’re just yo-yoing from 19,000 to 22,000++ with positivity rate of almost 30%. It seems like it’s just a matter of time that my household will get it. God forbid.
I’m on tenterhooks right now because both of my twins are having low-grade fevers. I’m still observing so I will have enough data to tell the doctor before I book our teleconsult. I don’t want to panic yet and book a Covid test for all of us. I checked their tonsils and both have inflamed tonsils so I’m hoping that could be the culprit and not Covid. I made them gargle Bactidol three times a day.
Two weeks ago one of them had canker sores on her tonsils after I teleconsulted their pediatrician in our hometown. She stopped with Bactidol once she felt better. I don’t know if what they have right now is the same viral infection (no sores though) or a completely new one.
Oh God, please don’t let this be Covid.
I’m just so tired and having a nasty headache now. I think my astigmatism worsened.
I just found a gem hidden somewhere on Youtube. I first fell in love with this song when 3D (Dancel, Dumas, Danao) did an acoustic live version of this, which felt like…burnout. Or the middle of a burnout. This version, on the other hand, feels like a breeze caressing your cheek after a meltdown. Especially the part where Clara Benin sang, “tinatawag kita/sinusuyo kita/di mo man marinig/di mo man madama…” I felt that.
Unfortunately for me this is not available on Spotify so I can’t add this to my playlist. So I always have to hunt this down on Youtube.
…Tinatawag kita, sinusuyo kita Di mo man marinig, di mo man madama O kay tagal din kitang mamahalin O kay tagal din kitang mamahalin…”
Hanggang kelan? Hindi ko alam pero ang alam ko lang ay pagod na ako.
I went food shopping this evening and I bought slabs of steak for me to grill tomorrow because my very good friend, K, will be coming over. Must have heard that I got sick.
Photo by CallMeCreation.com
But I wouldn’t eat this after my tests came back and indicated that I am a walking heart attack. I will have grilled salmon instead. Made potato salad tonight to go with these and some steamed veggies. No alcohol, as the doctor ordered so I just bought sparkling grape juice for me while K will have red wine. I also bought brie cheese to go with the wine.
And yeah, no caffeine for me either.
I now only have flower teas or milk for breakfast. Then lunch and light dinner. Can’t wait for this lockdown to end so I can bike and burn calories.
For the second straight year, I haven’t been to Big Bad Wolf book sale, which is basically a huge warehouse of books marked down to 60%-70% of their normal prices. This time, though, they managed to have an online book sale until 7 July and during the first hour I was able to snag some books for my girls–boxed sets–but overall there are only a few good titles and most of the books for me got sold out in a few hours. I only managed to get one, which is a memoir by Salman Rushdie during the time he went into hiding after the fatwa on him was issued following the publication of his Satanic Verses.
I still have tons of books on my shelves that I have yet to finish. Always on the “to read” pile. Tsundoku.
My mom just messaged me on Viber that there is a growth of something where her malignant mole had been. She had surgery years ago to have that removed but now it seems like there’s an outgrowth. She went to two doctors today and she will have new sets of doctors to see on Monday.
Lord, please don’t let it be full-blown cancer. 😞 It’s a difficult disease and she’s past 70.
I need to go home soon. 🥺
So many drastic changes this past 30 days. One of my househelpers is pregnant (I’m not surprised) so she will be going home to her province on 15 Aug. Another person gone from my household. J had been urging me to send her home earlier because there’s an excess labor here at home and they’re not being maximized and I’m just wasting money. But I said I’ll just wait for her to resign on her own since it was just a matter of time that either she will get pregnant or get engaged, whichever comes first. I was right.
One of the people I had been helping for years has turned his/her back against me. For a petty reason. I guess I was not a friend at all, despite all the help I’ve been extending to this person.
Another reporter is resigning. Now I’m at my wits’ and how to bridge the gap.
Lord, give me and my mom the strength to deal with all of these.
