August 30th, 2005
god is so good
i was confined in the hospital for a week. i acquired dengue fever.. the experience was so traumatic. i almost died. the fever is so deadly. there is no anti-biotic or any other medicine that can directly fight against the virus, the patient's ultimate and only weapon is his immune system. my doctor who happens to have taken her med proper in U.p manila prescribed a lot of multivitamins and this very expensive milk that costs sixty pesos in a single drinking, eh i have to drink that milk three times a day as supplement to meals since i could hardly take any food. the experience was the most terrible so far. i vomit everytime i eat. but the thought of a long life kept me from puking so i mustered the energy to not puke no matter how hard it had been for me.
but the very reason why until this very moment, a very pretty human is keeping a blog and currently making another entry is no less than GOD's divine love for me. I had a very formidable case compared to other typical dengue cases. i am not talking about the complexity of the fever but the odds we have to daunt just so that we may not compromise our highly valued religious credence. you see, my parents are Jehopvah's witnesses and my faith in Jehovahs is unreserved though i am not baptized as his witness. and one of my religion's decisive convictios is its firm preclusion of blood transfusion. we value the bible's teaching about abstaining from blood. and the only way (tat is according to the doctor) that a patient infected with dengue could be saved whenever he internally or externally bleeds is by means of undergoing blood transfusion. and since we do not buy this option, during my critical phase (that was when i no longer had a high fever, that's the time your body temperature gets back to normal) which was day 7, my dad signed a waiver telling that the hospital and my attending physicial shall not be held liable if anything bad happens to me since we won't agree with blood transfusion. the whole of my extended family including my closest friends prayed for my recovery. Until day 8 came that the doctor noticed that my tummy seemed to have enlarged and that i might have been bleeding internally so she summoned me to undergo an ultrasound test so as to check whether my internal organs have enlarged. Because God Jehovah is good, the result was negative just in time with the result of my platelet count which went high on the 8th da. (the platelet count is the determinant whether a person has dengue or not.. the normal is 150-350000, mine went down to 70000 and went to 90000 until i reached 150000 again)
so to god thank you for giving me my second life..

