Several days ago, I missed an event by Glaxo Smithkline (GSK) for a campaign called No Hope Lost. It’s a pneumococcal and rotavirus awareness campaign. I wanted to go since pneumonia is something that is very real to me right now. My dad’s been in the hospital for 6 weeks because of pneumonia and he’s…
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Weekend dinner at Chili’s Tomas Morato
Last Sunday, our cook took the day off so as usual we had dinner outside. That afternoon, hubby took a nap and had a dream about eating at Chili’s. Thus come dinner time, he suggested that we go there. I was surprised that we actually had to wait a bit to be seated because it…
The decision no one wants to make…
It may not seem like it but this week has been quite a roller coaster ride. As I’ve mentioned a while back, my dad’s in the ICU and since then we’ve had two family conferences with the doctors although I’ve blogged about just the first one. The second one was more ominous. We were asked…
Family conference at the hospital
To continue the story of the dreaded phone call, I went to the hospital at exactly 3pm yesterday, as per my dad’s doctors’ request. I joined my stepmom in the ICU Waiting Lounge. My two brothers came about 30 minutes later as both took off from work. We told our sister not to come anymore…
The phone call you never want to receive…
Some weeks ago, I got a call on my cellphone from the school clinic. When you get a call like that everything just seems to stop up until the moment the person at the other end of the line tells you what’s wrong. I for one automatically assume something is wrong because they won’t be…