I wasn’t feeling well last night so I sleep as early as six o’clock in the evening without eating dinner, I had a severe headache with vomiting and I have pain from my period. I really feel so crappy last night that’s why when I was left alone when my family went to town I cried so hard, I don’t know if it is because of my physical pain or the recurrent pain that I can’t overcome. Lights are killing me so I have to turn off the lights in our living room where we sleep, I was also sensitive to sound and voices but our house is near the street so it is killing me every time I hear noises, then my  mother watched a drama series I was glad that she didn’t turn the volume up but since the television is too bright I sleep with handkerchief on my eyes and with a lot of ointment in my head pulse.

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A cousin had told me that maybe I have to get a new eyeglasses because maybe my eye grade went up. Maybe she is right but I can’t afford it right now so I just wish my eyes won’t bother me that much. I also hope it isn’t something serious like brain aneurysm or some sort, when I was a little kid I was hit by a tricycle and my head was also injured but God let me live and gave me a second life but reading through some stories symptoms and accident result sometimes came after so many years.  I watched too many movies and I overthink too much again, isn’t it?

When a new itchy bump grew up in my left arm I treat it with a new method what I did is tape a part of crushed garlic in it and I did the same thing in my face, it was very relieving but a bit painful. It was very stupid of me not knowing it will leave garlic burns so when the skin turn red and darker in my face, I treated it with coconut oil or coconut oil with turmeric.

Garlic is effective in treating fungal infection as well as killing a pimple but definitely should not be left on longer than a minute or so, but I let the garlic in my face longer than two hours. With a thought that the garlic burns might leave a noticeable scar in my face I search for alternative method and I have found out that vitamin E oil is one of the well-known home remedies for healing skin garlic burns.

To do so, you have to cut the vitamin E capsules in half and rub the oil onto the burn, healing won’t happen overnight so you have to do it for a longer period until it heals fully.   Vitamin E has also antibiotic properties that can be helpful in preventing infection.

It was been three days since I am treating the garlic burn in my face and arm with Vitamin E, I have noticed that the inflammation have already subsided but it is still reddish in color.

Last night I have asked my sister to buy chicken head barbecue in the street, I have followed her when I heard commotion outside. It turns out, our second degree younger cousin Paolo was confined in the hospital and in need of operation but there’s isn’t a doctor, they can’t find a doctor that will perform the operation so they have been discussing of bringing the patient to Manila and then ask for help to well-known politicians to facilitate the hospital transfer in Manila to avoid hassle of hospital shopping.

Well, with my mother’s idea we went to the provincial hospital to visit Paolo, since he is her godchild, when we arrived at the hospital we don’t know which building and room to go, so we decided to check the patient’s chart but before we able to see it we’ve seen his mother and his older sister in-law waiting for a doctor. His mother brought us to the public ward where two of his older brothers, cousin and friend are looking after him.

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We are told that Paolo was confined since few days ago because of severe pain in his lower abdomen, he was been confined in a private hospital in the neighboring city where he temporarily resides with his older sister but it was said that the doctor didn’t find anything while his health is deteriorating, that’s when her older sister send him home in our hometown where he was confined again and when his laboratory test came out the findings was he has ruptured appendicitis which has pus already. Upon hearing it, I felt scared with my cousin’s life because as what I know once the appendicitis ruptured it is a matter of life and death and without a doctor who will operate on him, he is doomed. Looking at him in the hospital he is severe pain, I can’t count how many times he agonized in pain. We waited a later longer because his mother talked with a doctor and when he comes back, she was crying endlessly. There isn’t a doctor around, there’s one doctor who can operate him but he isn’t around and he was not picking up the call and they were told to wait until the doctor showed up since he was not in duty. It wasn’t a good idea, it is our cousin’s life on the line so we told them not to wait anymore until the doctor showed up for his duty in the hospital or not to think of the operation cost because life is more important, they can find the money but they cannot return a life so if they can do something right away they should do it because every minute counts, that’s when his sister in-law says they could try to go to the doctor’s house which is just around the hospital neighborhood, they would be lucky if he is around or he was out of town like what they are thinking since he isn’t picking up a call. We went out with them, us going home and them going to the doctor’s house.

Well, early this morning we are told by relatives he is going to be operated by that doctor, probably they were able to see him last night. One young politician would like to send him to Manila because she said it is maybe not appendicitis because once it was ruptured you only have 24 hours to live since it is very dangerous once the poison scattered in his body but it was late already since he is already under the table and being operated. So far, we have no news yet how the operation went. We hope it was successful.