Like Father like Sons
Dad and Mom related a dinner they had yesterday. This was a get together with coworkers from way back at 1974. Strangely, the most notable element about the get together was my parents. While everyone else were still employees and haven't much changed their station since, Mom and Dad were unusual in how they turned out.
I found out that not much was expected from Dad (as mom would imply "loser"). Something, my siblings and I have strongly in common with him. Another strange parallelism is how both of us repeated grade 2 and fell on our face braking our front teeth. Stranger still is many other things about the lives... It is just so strange... I don't know what to make of it.
Beyond these conversations with my folks, in some way they gave their blessing with some of the plans I have made.
My Hepa. I came from the national kidney transplant institute in Quezon. It was really, really strange to have to listen to a child desperately pleading no when, like that child, I was in for a blood sample. His cries were unnerving, especially since what aggravates pain is the imagination of the person who is subject to it.
My Doc explaining to me yesterday that my condition may be permanent is quite sad, but not that depressing. To me, its ok since my parents secured already some of my financial future already. Too bad this means that I can never have alchohol again... a loss that is pretty much felt because of my certain appreciation for it. I consider myself truly luck though, and my Doc shared the distress that many others arent as lucky to be born as well off as me, as to afford my very expensive medicine.
He told me many people just stop taking it because it is just too expensive... I'm left wondering what happened to the cheaper medicine bill that was passed by the senate?
Unwittingly in the conversation I find out that I was taking HALF the recomended dose. That would have been really bad, had not that my HBV-DNA tests consistently related levels far below detectable levels. To think that my medicine at 0.5mg already costs 9k a month, how serious could it be if it became 19k a month.
He stressed the danger of getting of it. He said that without the meds, the virus would be active and will consume part of my liver. My liver would heal, regenerating but the regeneration may mutate into cancer. Hepa B thing I have in common with my father. Although he, according to my Doc's father, "won the lotto" when he naturally developed the anti bodies against it.
Other than Hepa, I have what seems to be some sleeping disorder that is breathing related. I'll be going to a Pumonary Specialist to have it assessed before going into anything more costly.
I may be from a well off family, but so much of my life happens to need the wealth more than I am able to enjoy it.
Schools. I was talking to my mom about how some of the subjects are utterly useless. When you consider that there are 12 units of relgious subjects required by all the Catholic Universities. In Ateneo (I'm not sure its required now) there are 12 Additional units required for philosophy. In DLSU there is the uselss subjects as Home-Work-Life Balance and Peace Education, It really drives home how ARCHAIC and unefficient the school system is.
Consider how many filipinos do well with these useless subjects, consider how much BETTER they would all be without them. Adding more USELESS subjects should be the way they can increase profit or balance the sheets, removing these usless subjects and repricing the CORE subjects are what does.
It is about time, more modern teaching methods; modern administrative and management techniques used in running these schools; and more secular approach to education be made in order to break free from the bonds that disallow the new Generation Filipinos from accomplishing more and becoming more!
I found out that not much was expected from Dad (as mom would imply "loser"). Something, my siblings and I have strongly in common with him. Another strange parallelism is how both of us repeated grade 2 and fell on our face braking our front teeth. Stranger still is many other things about the lives... It is just so strange... I don't know what to make of it.
Beyond these conversations with my folks, in some way they gave their blessing with some of the plans I have made.
My Hepa. I came from the national kidney transplant institute in Quezon. It was really, really strange to have to listen to a child desperately pleading no when, like that child, I was in for a blood sample. His cries were unnerving, especially since what aggravates pain is the imagination of the person who is subject to it.
My Doc explaining to me yesterday that my condition may be permanent is quite sad, but not that depressing. To me, its ok since my parents secured already some of my financial future already. Too bad this means that I can never have alchohol again... a loss that is pretty much felt because of my certain appreciation for it. I consider myself truly luck though, and my Doc shared the distress that many others arent as lucky to be born as well off as me, as to afford my very expensive medicine.
He told me many people just stop taking it because it is just too expensive... I'm left wondering what happened to the cheaper medicine bill that was passed by the senate?
Unwittingly in the conversation I find out that I was taking HALF the recomended dose. That would have been really bad, had not that my HBV-DNA tests consistently related levels far below detectable levels. To think that my medicine at 0.5mg already costs 9k a month, how serious could it be if it became 19k a month.
He stressed the danger of getting of it. He said that without the meds, the virus would be active and will consume part of my liver. My liver would heal, regenerating but the regeneration may mutate into cancer. Hepa B thing I have in common with my father. Although he, according to my Doc's father, "won the lotto" when he naturally developed the anti bodies against it.
Other than Hepa, I have what seems to be some sleeping disorder that is breathing related. I'll be going to a Pumonary Specialist to have it assessed before going into anything more costly.
I may be from a well off family, but so much of my life happens to need the wealth more than I am able to enjoy it.
Schools. I was talking to my mom about how some of the subjects are utterly useless. When you consider that there are 12 units of relgious subjects required by all the Catholic Universities. In Ateneo (I'm not sure its required now) there are 12 Additional units required for philosophy. In DLSU there is the uselss subjects as Home-Work-Life Balance and Peace Education, It really drives home how ARCHAIC and unefficient the school system is.
Consider how many filipinos do well with these useless subjects, consider how much BETTER they would all be without them. Adding more USELESS subjects should be the way they can increase profit or balance the sheets, removing these usless subjects and repricing the CORE subjects are what does.
It is about time, more modern teaching methods; modern administrative and management techniques used in running these schools; and more secular approach to education be made in order to break free from the bonds that disallow the new Generation Filipinos from accomplishing more and becoming more!
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