WHEN AND WHERE PART

Finally got mom out of the hospital, but with a lot of consequences. As a result of the latest skirmish on the hospital , the "Phil Health" medical insurance is used up and can't be used again till next year and still have remaining debt of roughly 8,000 Philippine Peso (the latter being resolved by going to the social service worker). The medical bill overall on the period of hospitalization (14 days) was as high as 50,000 Php, it was reduced to 30,000 Php when an associate of my sister negotiated to cut down some of the expenses, the remaining expenses was resolved by the medical insurance and by the social worker (I mentioned earlier).

 

Speaking of which , I would like to write down that the social worker on a public hospital is not exactly that friendly and charitable. As a matter of fact they certainly don’t live up to their name (and the publics expectation). Now why the hell do am I writing this ?!  As I mentioned that despite the Phil Health medical insurance trimming down greatly the depth to just now 7000 Php - it's still far off from the zero. Now my younger sister gave me an instruction to check out the social services if they could help us out. So I was off to another area in the hospital and see if it was true - to my dismay it was a bad idea asking help on those sons of bitches. Not only that they had me waiting for more than four hours but asking help from them was even difficult from the moment I entered on the door and sat on their desk, and can you believe that they even accused me of being an opportunist . Saying that the reason I'm asking for their help is that I'm a freeloader (person who takes advantage of the generosity of others) and wanted to escape  the medical bills. And believe or not that nasty witch we call a "social worker" even wanted me to beg - YES act like begging right in front of her just like in the movies and TV , that bitch !!!  It’s a good thing that I was defiant , besides being accused of being an opportunist and freeloader was already insulting and I'm not going to put myself on that degrading act just to appease that old hag regardless of any situation. In fact that bitch should consider herself lucky that I held my posture and didn’t retaliate on what she just said.

 

For my sister sake , I remained silent. Without that fact I would have definitely said , "lady your face is as ugly as your manners, and why don’t you lick my balls first and give me a blowjob" . She should kept in mind that it was not my choice to go to their pathetic office asking for help, and I wouldn't be asking their help even if it was voluntary - The only reason I was there was because my sister ordered me to go there, nothing more. So that bitchy social worker better give me some damn respect that I even considered going to their worthless pathetic office in the first place.

 

Despite being turned down on the request and insulted , I calmly left their office. I didn’t even bothered to say thanks because they simply don’t deserve my respect and thus didn’t give it - besides what for ?! It's just a Pity that they are social workers and yet they act like they own the whole government social services or its their money that was being used for charity. Damn arrogance and cocky sons of bitches ! They think they have the power of life and death over the sick . Those Bastards !!!

 

Anyway going back ….

 

The hospitalization , this time didn’t accomplished anything and to sum it up was just basically a costly waste of money, resources and effort for the basis of just  malaise (false feeling of sickness). The most insulting part of it was that we paid a hospital for nothing , they didn’t provide any treatment and just gave a bottle of oxygen every now and then , some lodging and bed and viola - the whole 50,000 medical bill just went on those expenses. Even the medicines were not provided and we have to buy our own meds - and some of them even got stolen by those crooked medical nurses and staff. On top of that handling mom during the hospitalization was exceedingly difficult not on the medical situation itself but on the part of her behavior. To the point that me and my younger sister refuse to look after her and let our younger cousin to that work. 

 

Overall , The public opinion on moms hospitalization is very negative. It’s a shame my mom is just squandering all the money I had worked so hard for years as an OFW - and she just waste it on unnecessary petty medications like some sort of drug addict and to add more her hypochondriac mentality makes it even worse (meaning imaginary symptoms and ailments),  to the point that my sister and I are now in the edge of being financially bankrupt paying those hospital expenses that cost thousands of Philippine Pesos. She should be grateful that she's one of the few people who can afford dialysis treatments in the Philippines, some other people deserve to live but never got a chance because of those expensive treatments. She should know better not to squander that kind of opportunity and bear that in mind.   

 

I am writing this as an OFW Dilemma, that most OFW's spend years away for the sake of financial gain and when they get back in the Philippines - much to their surprise to find out that their relatives have squandered all the money they had tried to acquire in all those years. In my situation, I guess this is the case that is happening.  

 

In other news

 

Currently in a loophole situation where I'm left and still figuring out on what will happen next on my work. It's pretty obvious that I'm already overdue here in the Philippines and there is no word yet on which vessel I'm going to be assigned with or on what date will be my deployment, at my rate its certain that I will miss Christmas and New Year celebration in the Philippines - the whole holiday season as a result of this overdue and delay.

 

Anyway for now there is nothing much I can do about it and it just plainly up to my company the "when and where" part.

 

Speaking of which last Thursday I visited my company to check and inquire a few stuff about my employment status and did notify to my company my contact phone number in case they needed me. I wasn’t able to talk to Mr. nidoy himself during that time since he's not around at the office during that time (Medical Emergency) and probably I'd be going back again to him again and ask about my medical certificate issue. After two weeks , I decided to try again and see if there was any improvement on my status of employment - sadly it was still the same. But I was assured by Mr. Nidoy that the medical certificate had a validity of more than 3 months - its good in the sense that I don’t have to do another medical after 3 months , but bad in the sense that it meant that my stay here will be longer than 4 months and the company is not in a rush to reassign me to another ship.

 

Given with this situation of uncertainty of what date I will be put back, I have the option of doing a sideline land based work while there is no announcement yet. I haven't thought yet on what kind of job I should be looking for and I still have to plan and acquire the necessary documents that I had to need in looking for a job.