archive for the “health” category
This morning Andy knocked on my door much earlier than I expected, earlier than the time I’d set on my alarm clock. Yesterday we’d agreed to go with Nanay into the city to see a physician in a free clinic. I should have gone to bed earlier! Bleary-eyed, I pulled on a white t-shirt, tan trousers, shoes, slipped my wallet in a pocket, poured some coins in a front pocket, picked up my keys and sunglasses, and headed out without breakfast or caffeine. »→
Thanks to Quin and Joyce for their donation through Wachovia. We will be able to build another chicken coop, add corrugated sheets of galvanized steel to the roof of the A/V/A family’s home and buy another barrel, for potable water for the kitchen. I will tell the kids tomorrow of their Florida benefactors.
My head feels as if it’s stuffed with putty, and it aches. My throat is sore. I’ve been getting worse for days. My body aches. I’m achy and fatigued. So I think that I’m fighting an infection. I could have gone to a pharmacy – or gone to a physician for PhP 200 then to a pharmacy. Oh, well. »→
Mack* met met at home early in the morning so that I would accompany him to the National Statistics Office in Baguio City. I had suggested last week that we go to apply for a birth certificate copy because I would likely not have a copy in my mail box on Wednesday. Mack had Nick* with him, so I asked him if he wanted to go to the city. He said yes, so I picked up my backpack and keys and locked the front door, wondering why Dominic hadn’t come home yet. And away we went.
*names changed
Today I, Mack and Rose accompanied their grandmother to a physician’s clinic in the Anita Theresa Building, off Session Road. Afterward we walked to a nearby Mercury Drug store to fill prescriptions. Several “st.josephdrug” and “Mercury Drug” stores, and many physicians’ offices, are in the buildings overlooking Session Road. »→
Today I will accompany Nanay to a physician in downtown Baguio City whom she visited three or four weeks ago. The doc can discuss with Nanay the efficacy of the medicine inhaler that she has been using for a week and a half.
Dominic wants to take the kids shopping for student supplies tomorrow, and Friday I will take Andy to the pediatrician so that she can discern whether his current medicine regimen is helping him. †
This afternoon, Mack, Andy and Nick walked uphill to go with me to Baguio City. I waited at the end of my street, then we walked up to the jeepney stop on Tuding Road. We had wanted to find the family’s previous physician, Dr. Ventura, on Session Road, but we couldn’t find him in the slim Baguio City telephone directory. So we went to a pediatrician in the Patria de Baguio Building, near the cathedral. »→
I have taken melatonin to help me sleep because I could lie awake quite awhile thinking of the people living in poverty in Baguio Gold Barangay. And I earlier took meloxicam for pain relief (knees and ankles), so now I’m bleary-eyed and heavy-headed and desire only to go to my bed. I had shut down my computer. But as I haven’t typed anything today, I switched it on, logged-into this site, and I’ll hunt-and-peck now. »→
Friday afternoon we had a very late lunch in Pizza Volante in Baguio City. Upon return home to Tuding, Dominic and I walked down Main Avenue in Monterrazas Village, behind our home, to visit the kids in the gold-mining neighborhood and give a volleyball to the boys. »→
