The Jolly Toes
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A hospital visit
One day, I happened to meet my best friend who is a chaplain in one of the hospitals in our area. During our conversation, he mentioned to me of his experiences with this hospital. One thing that brought to his attention was the services of the nurses who were on duty. He has observed that the nurses just carry the medicines through their hands while they deliver these to the rooms of the different patients of the hospital. For him, it is time-consuming and it will cause the delay in the delivery of the said medicines. He was thinking, he… Continue reading
A Mom’s story of her teenager daughter
One night, I went to the room of my youngest daughter. We talked about the college activities of her school in the previous month. I was interested because she was a member of the choir group. As we go along with our conversation, she mentioned to me that most of her friends always surrounds her because they like her natural long eye lashes. I have just known that her friends always dreamed to have long eyelashes like hers. I told my daughter if they are interested their dreams will come true. My daughter was surprised of my answer and asked… Continue reading
A Family Health Insurance Issue of Denial to Support
Our family health insurance for the first time was studying our prescriptions. I wish not to make this a big issue but it is just to let others know some precautions. The issue we got was that they deny to support paying a specific medication being administered to our baby via injection. As for our understanding, they explained to us that our baby should not have taken a particular shot called Synagis because he did not have symptoms of RSV infection like chronic lung disease or congenital heart disease. The said medication should be administered to infants who were… Continue reading
Health Facts: Pediatric Statistics on How long Common Cold Symptoms last
I took this Statistical picture on how long colds symptoms last when we went for a pediatric appointment last month. I thought this is an important information to all people and parents having kids out there. Having a common cold is frustrating. It makes us irritable and lethargic. Common cold is an acute infectious disease. The symptoms of having a common cold are: sore throat, nasal discharge, cough and fever.
According to this statistical picture, sore throat last for 9 days, nasal discharge lasts for 14 days and same with cough, and fever lasts for 9… Continue reading
Mommy’s Lost Purse
A week ago, my husband and I had a dental check up. We left the kids to their Grand Ma who baby sit them for a while and so we took some freedom of spending time together. We just went to the mall, then to the library and then to McDonald’s for lunch. We got back to the Grand Ma’s house and I just felt so tired and slept for a few hours. I woke up when my Mom in law decided to go to Bonton as they had a community sale and we might see something we like.… Continue reading
Holiday travel and deluxe disney hotels
Apart from being the most-anticipated holiday of the year, Christmas is also the most opportune time to catch up on bonding moments with your family and loved ones since everyone will be free from work due to the holiday off. And one great way to bond with you entire family is to get on with that long overdue travel you have planned but never had the time of day to actually realize. Now that everyone will be available for a few weeks, dad will be off from work for several days, as well as the children who has a couple… Continue reading
