Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Doctor

Yesterday before sundown, Ate Malou (my neighbor in her 50s) asked me to verify her bed-ridden mother’s blood pressure because the old woman was shaking.

I went to see the patient free of charge (my standard for my neighbors) and reminded Ate Malou about sublingual anti-hypertensive meds before leaving.

People looked at me as I walked up and down the street hooked to an IV line (which I inserted myself because of LBM).

It was a rare sight for all of us.

- sent to friends as a text message on 1 May 2013

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Living alone made me learn to insert IV lines to myself without any external help.