The last time I checked, my last post was about mid-May. So what happened?
A lot, actually.
Over the course of the next few days after my last post, I got busy with things at work. Since the distribution of mid-year bonuses to company employees is approaching soon, as a Supervisor I had to complete some performance appraisal documents for my team members. Of course I had to discuss details of the appraisal to each one of them. We also had to prepare for crucial work items that I had barely time to create new posts by the time I get home.
Then came the unexpected. On the last week of May my wife had difficulty breathing, and she was at work during that time. Luckily the place where she works is just a few buildings away from mine so I was there in less than 15 minutes. I had to rush her to a nearby hospital and we found out that she had Potassium deficiency that caused her breathing muscles to not function properly. I took the next day off just to take care of her. She got better by afternoon, and I told myself everything’s okay now. I can go back to work tomorrow. Or so I thought.
It was almost midnight when I received a phone call from my sister telling me that our father had to be rushed to the hospital. He fell unconscious while preparing to take a bath. When we reached the hospital’s emergency room, it turns out that he had difficulty breathing and his hemoglobin levels were way too high. He was attached to a respirator (luckily CT scans revealed he suffered no head injury when he fell unconscious) and sent to the ICU after the ER doctors and personnel were able to bring oxygen levels in his blood back to normal levels.
My Father stayed in the ER for a week. During that time I was busy going to and from some government offices to do some paperwork to lower down the costs incurred for his hospitalization. Once he was transferred to a regular room, it was evident that he needed to take a lot of rest, and that he needed an oxygen tank for emergency purposes at home. So there I was looking for and buying a new sofa bed and two oxygen tanks to prepare for his return home.
After another week at the hospital he was cleared to go home. Unfortunately being bedridden for two weeks caused his leg muscles to weaken that he could barely stand up. Fortunately my father is a fighter, and he’s continuously forcing himself to be able to stand up on his own again. Nowadays he could stand up and hold on to a sturdy object as he makes small steps from one area of the house to the other (as compared to his first day home where I had to almost carry him up the stairs), and he uses the oxygen tank less often.
So that was it. I’m resting right now, but I’ll be going back to work tomorrow, looking forward to working for 5 days straight.
No tech-related stuff for this post. I’ll save things for the following ones.