Our old Mitsubishi Lancer GLXI took a trip to Diamond Motors to get a 15-point checkup last Wednesday. It’s got a nasty bump on its rump. Besides that, its transmission is shot and its radiator’s full of dirt. It had problems with the alternators and air condition as well. Plus it waste a lot more gasoline than necessary.
The gentleman who handed me the lowdown on the auto’s ailments told me the transmission alone would cost more than the car’s value.
That old car is my father’s favorite. I believe they share similar predicament.
My father’s now has vicious-looking bedsores on his rump. His brain is damaged from hydrocephalus and because of bouts with infections, his temperature is high. Other patients have come and gone from the hospital, but he remains.
We don’t have the hundred thousands to spare. Otherwise we would fix our car, we would fix our dad. Each of them old and too expensive for our family to keep running.
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My internet connection and landline were restored March 10. I had called from day one (February 11) of the disconnection and the Globelines service people only arrived March 10 even after I had phone their service people. Apparently I had to CANCEL an OLD REPORT & FILE A NEW REPORT instead of having their call center people make “followups.” Oddly I am still being told to pay Globelines 3/4 of the bill when for practically 98% of the time I had no dialtone or connection.
In the meantime, my dad has been in the hospital since March 3. First because of a fractured femur, then for complications which include bleeding in the brain, blood infection, pneumonia, and now anemia and bed sores.
Cardinal Santos charges way too much. Meronem, a drug prescribed to my dad costs 3000Php at a drugstore - at Cardinal Santos they have it at 5000Php!!! Not just that, but even the price on items such as syringes and gloves are ballooned exorbitantly! It’s nice that they have nuns visiting patients, but not whilst the hospital sends your bills to heaven!!!
It made me think twice whether I’m making enough money. Whether or not what I’m working on now is going to support me in my old age.
Many people had to chip in and continue to chip in for the biggest expense of my father’s (very expensive) life. Me and a pair of my cousins have already donated our blood to the hospital blood bank to drop costs down for my dad. As of this time, we’re looking for 6 more guys below 50 to donate!
I try to busy myself with work, but such a traumatic financial experience has me asking myself & God a lot of questions.
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Our Globelines phone and internet connection in Mandaluyong is STILL DEAD. For almost month!!! It began February 11, 2008… and until today March 6, 2008 - the phone is still dead. My multiple requests for a temporary alternative line seem to have fallen of deaf robot ears. No one calls to inform us of situation or of the request I made. There is no restitution being provided by Globelines, not even a word from this vaunted telecom company only impotent consolation. I have to keep calling them, and they never call back, knowing very well how difficult it is to call them in the fist place.
If I were God, I’d send them all into exile. But I’m not, so I’m going to exile myself instead from them.
On my recent call to Globe telecom, I again requested for a temporary line. I added too that they should note down that my dad is in the hospital for a broken femur after stumbling in the bath. But hey… I don’t think the technical support people care all that much that we can’t use the phone to facilitate his speedy recovery.
I also don’t think they care that I can hardly work anymore - because of the precious time I have to spend at an internet cafe instead of at my home office.
Globe telecom and Innove are just begging for me to give an ultimatum and I will give it tomorrow.
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