This Wednesday morning, January 28, 2021, I just finished taking calls because I was working from home. My friend called me on the phone. We talked for a long time because we missed each other. After a while, I heard a commotion outside our door. We live in an apartment. We are on the 2nd floor. It doesn't matter when you go up the stairs. There's the first door, the second of us and my sisters the third door.
So I said to my friend, "just a moment, huh? It looks like there is a commotion outside our door."
I can see in the lower part of the door beetle with the shadows of people walking. Walk as if confused. Then I heard their voices as if shouting. So my friend and I ended our conversation on the phone. I went to the kitchen. I washed my hands. Opposite our sink, I heard the man's voice. The voice came from the third door next to us.
The man said, "You didn't think about the boy? Didn't you think of ***?"
So I thought, maybe their sister just fell and my head turned outside and my sister just forgot to watch so the man was angry.
Our landlord shouted, "We'll take you to the hospital, that's poison!"
I was nervous when I heard that. So I did, I went out our door and went down to the ground floor. When I arrived at the side of the stairs when I was just going down, I saw my sister who was being supported by our landlord and her brother-in-law as she was going down the stairs. They almost dragged my sister away because she did not want to be sent to the hospital. But They still insisted until they released it to our gate.
When I got down, I found my mom on the side of the stairs. My mom was shaking and her eyes were watering. So I asked him, I said, "What happened? What happened to my sister?"
"Nak, your sister took MURIATIC ACID."
I was stunned. I shivered and cried. Only now have I experienced having a near saken or neighbor attempt suicide. I can't help but cry. I am not very close to my sister but I can talk to her sometimes. So I can't believe why he did that.
Later, they had a tricycle parked and they took my sister to the hospital. My mother told me that she was even surprised by what she saw. When mama allegedly climbed on them, she saw her sister with red eyes and her mouth swelled up to her cheeks and chin. His front clothes are also full of blood. Dark blood dripping from my sister's mouth.
By the morning, around 8am, my sister was locked in the bathroom. Her Aunt thought it was normal. Eventually he heard it vomiting. It sounds like vomiting. Not normal. Seems to have agony. So her Aunt knocked on her door. But my sister did not throb.
Tita quickly went down to the ground floor and knocked on my mother's door. Ask for help. What is the cure for vomiting? So they just thought my sister was really sick, feeling bad or maybe she was pregnant. So Mama, on the other hand, gave a liquid supplement to neutralize the acid if my sister was just acidic. Our landlord also went up because Ate's Aunt knocked on them.
When they went up, Ate was still not really coming out of the CR so our landlord stepped on it. They were surprised to see that the toilet and floor were full of blood while my sister had fallen on the floor inside.
They quickly pulled it out. My sister really doesn't want to stand up and just let her go.
My sister said nothing but "I don't want to. I don't want to" while blackish red blood was dripping down her nose and mouth.
My husband even got the chemical bottle that my sister drank. That is Liquid Sodium.
It was sad and it happened without Kuya ***, my sister's husband, when my sister did it. Kuya is on duty duty at work and he has not been able to go home for 3 weeks. Their only child who is only 4 years old is orphaned.
Ate's Aunt gave my husband Ate's cellphone to try to contact Ate's wife and siblings in the province. My wife also went to my sister's bestfriend who was with them in the apartment at her job to tell her what happened to my sister. He was also shocked by the incident. We did not think that the sky, although a quiet person, could do it. Depressing.
What my mom remembers, when she saw my sister's face was that she had no trace of suffering from the pain caused by the chemical. It's just a poker face while he says "I don't want to"
Ate was taken to PGH Manila and unfortunately she passed away on Friday.
To those who can read this, may we be vigilant with our Neighbors. To those we love in life. As long as we have a chance w,e will talk to them and love them.