it’s barely the 10th of january and yet i already have an eventful 2007. for starters, before 2006 ended, c and i received a summon to appear before the nlrc arbiter. the settlement hearing was slated last january 4. however, upon the advice of our lawyer, we didn’t make an appearance. he told us that our presence before the esteemed office was not necessary. the number of emps who filed the complaint already received their settlement payments and they signed their quit claims before a representative from dole. besides, the purpose of the hearing was to come up with a settlement. thus, the assurance given to us. yet even with this, i still have a nagging feeling that the issue isn’t over. as mr. lawyer himself said, any disgruntled or misled individual is afforded by our law freedom to file as many case as s/he wants. true enough, we received another summon. this time from dole. the hearing is this january 17. i’m yet to know how we’ll proceed from there, the same way that i’m yet to know what has come of the hearing at nlrc.
on a personal matter, i just had my first ever hospital visit for the year.
reason:
i had an allergic reaction to something and it triggered my beautiful u’s symptoms.
the drama:
around 10:30 pm, sunday, i noticed a couple of rashes on my skin. they were bigger than your usual blotch from a mosquito bite. since they were itchy, i applied rubbing alcohol on my left arm. after a minute or two, the rashes spread all over my body. at the same time, i felt a queasy feeling in my stomach. i rushed to the cr. next thing i knew, i was sitting on the floor of our very cramped cr with no memory of what happened to me a minute ealier. when i came to, i was a bit disoriented but still managed to get out of the john. by this time, i called my sister telling her that something’s wrong with me. i felt like fainting again as if the floor’s beckoning me to sit. not wanting to lie on the wet floor, i dragged myself to my folding bed and lied down. recounts from both my sister and mother, who i remembered were trying to instruct me to do deep breathing and were massaging me, reveal that i look like death. color was drained out of my body and was perspiring cold sweat. as they continue to massage me, i asked to be taken to the hospital as my condition hasn’t improved and i felt that my beautifu u was acting up. when we got to cdh’s e.r., my allergic reaction has let up, but the pain on my beautiful u hasn’t. additionally, i threw up what’s left of my dinner. unfortunately, the doctors couldn’t attend to me immediately as they were busy trying to revive two other patients. when one of the doctors was free, she did a quick check up and had a nurse administer an injection of pain reliever on me. a few minutes after, i went to the lab to have a cbc and a urinalysis. only a cbc was taken as i suddenly had a surge of blood. after this, another doctor examined me. two hours after, the result of my cbc came. my white blood cells count was 16.1 to the normal 5.0-10.k/cumm. the docs said that it wasn’t alarming but according to them this suggests i have an infection somewhere. as to what, they couldn’t find out. when doc 3 couldn’t find out what’s causing my pain, came israeli-pakistani descent doc 4. he did some poking and the mandatory interview and left. a little later, doc 3 came with filipino doc 5. by this time, i was bleeding profusely. this alarmed the docs, which i explained to them was not alarming as it’s my usual discharge when i’m under stress. doc 5 proceeded to doing his own set of physical check-up and then left. around 3AM, doc 3 and doc 4 came with another pakistani-descent doc 6. he asked me the same questions the other docs been asking me the past hours. [haha, by this time nahutdan nako ug english trying to explain to the foreign doctors my uterine condition]. when pakistani-descent doc 6 couldn’t figure out what’s wrong with me, he came back with filipino doc 7 [and 3]. here, doc 7 finally ruled that my case isn’t surgery-related, but that of ob. so doc 3 asked if i have an ob. i gave her a name, but apparently my ob is not affiliated with cdh. thus, they gave me a list of their affiliated docs. since i’m a little sensitive about my condition, i didnt want just anybody else poking me. haha, pabaga ko ug nawong and texted a couple of friends for a name of an ob they knew. ping! i was embarrassed because my doc friend was on duty and dropped by the e.r. as i couldn’t fool her that i’m at the hosp for a routine check-up. yeah, my befuddled mind forgot that it was 4AM and NOBODY in their right minds does a routine check-up at such an ungodly hour. cdh’s resident ob on duty then came for the exams that i dread the most, huhuhu… left cdh past 12 in the afternoon.
