JD's Musings Decomplexified

Ito yung mga panahong nasa kwarto lang ako at nakatitig sa kawalan. Haha. No, actually I'm staring at the wall. And when I observed something, I'll text some people about it. Here are some of my messages and my recipients' replies....


April 19, 2008
SENT TO MANY:
Minsan masaya din pala ang makipagtitigan sa pader. Try mo! (^_^)

SOME REPLIES:
Ate Marj: Sori ala akong time hehehe enjoy m lng!
Shierl: Haha, walang basagan ng trip...
Don: Haha wla ka mgawa noh, kausapin u nrn yang pader
Est: Haha! ö kaw tlga! Wlang mgawa. Pati wall pa.. :-P
Est: Haha. Katawa ka! No tme to talk to the wall. Dami ko pa gagawin eh.

April 21, 2008
SENT TO MANY:
Pag hinipan mo pala ang langgam na umaakyat sa pader, tumitigil sha maglakad para di ma-out of balance. Ang galing noh? Tsk. Buti pa yung langgam busy...

SOME REPLIES:
Est: Haha. ö kamusta ka naman dyan. Bestfriend mo na ang langgam?? Hahak ü
Jayne: Shockerz k jhen bka ngsa2lita k n mgisa dyan ha kausapin mo ung langgam hehe
Krissy: Jeneva Monica! bum ka noh?ü
Abby: Un langgam..May point ka infairnezness! ...
Don: Ang galing ng langgam noh, kelangan imitate ntn ung attitude nla. Wen the going gets tough sumtyms its d best thing to stop, be stil, focus on ur foundations and listen to GOD para hnd tyo matangay ng hangin db. Maybe GOD s teling us to stop 4 a wyl and focus on HIM. hehe kaw ha nktitig kna nmn sa pader

...Don's reply was so nice! Made sense. So I decided to forward his message to some people.
Eto, may pahabol pa pala si Don:

Don: Kya impt ang foundations, kung weak foundations ntn tatangayin tyo. Nnjan pb ung mga ants, try u cla hipan, ung iba matatangay but strong ones remain

...Ang galing ng reply nya di ba? What an insight! Then here's Krissy's reply to the forwarded message... What an observation!

Krissy: Sabi nung nagreply sau, "nakatitig ka nanaman sa pader". Sa palagay ku ndi, ndi ka lang nakatitig, nose to nose kau nung wall, hinihipan mu pa.ü

Hep hep hep! Babalik... bumabalik... bumalik!

Yippee. I'm back to blogging! Hello hello! It's been a month, right Maf? Tsk. Pity. Well anyway, since I'm zoooper excited to tell the world what happened in the last (finger count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...) six weeks, Ima tell you right away! Well, in bullets, since nothing's changed with this lazy blogger...

- Nag-resign na'ko sa e*el*ca*re.
- I had an anaphylaxis last March 28 (supposedly my last day in the office).
- Nanakaw si Raven last April 8.
- Nag-I.V. Therapy Training na'ko. Completion of cases maybe next month...
- I'm back in the Kid's Church!
- I'm "home". Back in serving God and fulfilling the Great Commission. Back in the life which gives me contentment and security more than ALL the temporary happiness this world can give me. YEAH!!

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"ANAPHYLAXIS: My Childhood Enemy."

Aside from crabs, I am allergic to Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid or ASA). I know that fact with all my heart because I had a serious allergic reaction to it when I was a kid. One time, I was sick and took it; my mother didn't know yet that I'm allergic to that med.

Now last March 27, I had gone into anaphylaxis around FIFTEEN HOURS after taking an innocent-looking 500-milligram Ponstan.

I'd taken mefenamic acid many times before for pain relief. Ponstan is just a branded mefenamic acid so I thought, even if that's my first time to take Ponstan, it's safe. That's a mistake.

I took the capsule at around 5 AM on Thursday. I was still in the office taking in calls and my teeth started to get hurt so I swallowed one of the two Ponstan pills, which I bought from Mercury Drug. Just a brief background, I've been seeing my dentist that week because of constant toothaches. I'll soon have this dental operation thingy (not extraction FYI), and till then I was advised to take mefenamic acid when the pain gets intolerable.

Good thing we didn't have work in the evening so I went home to Bulacan after my shift.
I was already sleeping before sunset. At around 7PM (or was that 11PM?), I suddenly woke up, feeling cold. Tried to find my blanket but it wasn't there so I asked my aunt for it. It was my brother who gave me my freshly washed blanket. I went back to sleep. After sometime, I woke up again feeling itchy around my stomach and waist. I thought nahigad ako dala nung blanket so I kicked the linen off my bed and tried to get back to sleep... I couldn't. My face felt funny. It's like getting swollen or something, and the itch around my tummy was getting worse. It's like the itch had spread on my thighs and neck as well. So I got up and checked myself in front of the mirror.

OMG.

I prayed that what struck me would disappear in 24 hours... I prayed. Prayed. Then went back to sleep. After sometime, I woke up again and decided to get up to tell my family about what's happening. There. Standing up - that was the last thing I remember.

My family's story of what happened after that: Narinig ng auntie ko na parang bumagsak yung patong-patong na karton ng sapatos sa kwarto. So pumunta sha sa room. Nakita nya'kong nakahiga sa sahig malapit sa pinto, walang malay. Nahirapan na kasi akong huminga. Eksaktong dumating na rin si Mama sa bahay so sinugod nila ako sa hospital.

Nagkamalay ako sa sasakyan pero nung dumilat ako, wala akong makita. Everything's bright and white na parang may nagtapat ng spotlight sa mga mata ko. Parang ganun. Then I passed out again. Nagkamalay ulit ako nung nasa stretcher na'ko tinatakbo papasok ng ospital, at nawalan nanaman ako ng malay. Sa E.R. na'ko ulit nagising dahil nilalamig ako at sobrang sakit ng tiyan ko. I even threw up. Nakakakita na'ko pero sobrang labo. Never ko nga nakita yung mukha ng doctor. Basta narinig ko lang na sinabi nya, "Bibigyan kita ng antihistamine, aantukin ka dito..." Naramdaman ko na lang yung karayom sa left deltoid ko. At nakatulog na nga ako.

Paggising ko umaga na and I'm home.

Sigh* Naisip ko, what if I didn't get up from the bed that night? What if I didn't knock into the boxes and they didn't fall with me? There would be no noise to alert my aunt. If there was, what if my aunt didn't hear it? What if I decided to just continue sleeping, thinking that the hives would disappear in the morning? No one would know that I lost consciousness... No one would know that I almost couldn't breathe... No one would know that I already stopped breathing. I'd just lie there.

I'M FOREVER GRATEFUL TO GOD. PRAISE HIM. I THANK HIM WITH ALL MY HEART.

(Thank You, Lord Jesus!! My Savior!)


Info on Anaphylaxis.
Ponstan should not be taken by people who are allergic to Aspirin!