He's sick and my tooth is aching so much

July 4, 2022

Hello everyone! How was your weekend? I had a long weekend since we had no work today. And I'm gonna share with you what happened to my day.

It's hard when a baby is sick. They can't tell you what they are feeling, you will just hear them coughing, sneezing or they had high body temperature. If only we can bear their sickness or pass it to us so they don't suffer but it's not possible. What we need to do is to take care of them and bring them to the doctor so that they will check them up.

Last Saturday morning, I noticed I am coughing it was not hard and my partner thought that he just choked on his saliva so he was coughing. But in the afternoon I hear him coughing continuously and it is not a usual cough it is hard and you can hear that there is phlegm inside. The baby won't know how to get rid of the phlegm. I get worried and nervous at the same time, I told my partner that we should bring our baby to the center, only to realise that the center is closed during weekends.

And this morning, we went to the center very early so that if there is a line we will not going to wait long. Fortunately, there is no line and so we went straight inside. However, the staff told us that there was no doctor available there, the doctor went to a seminar and will come back on Thursday, we can't wait that long. I remember I have money left in my atm which was supposedly used to celebrate my baby's nine months it is only P500 ($10) but we need to use this for my baby's check-up. I cash it out and we headed to the clinic. There was a line and our number is 10 so we need to wait first.

My baby was just behaving and didn't cry even when it was our turn already, we went inside and talk to the doctor, and she check my baby's heartbeat and weight, and also asked me questions like when the cough started and if he also have a sneeze and fever. My baby doesn't have a fever which I am thankful for. After the doctor gave the prescription, we headed to the cashier. There are three medicines which are all oral drops, one is for phlegm, the second for sneezing and the last one is antibacterial. We buy it all and the overall cost is P405 ($7.36) including the check-up fee of 150 pesos. Good thing that our money is enough and we still have for our transportation fee. I still need to buy three pieces of oral drops for antibacterial since the doctor said they should be four, good for 7 days. I am waiting for my salary so that I can buy the remaining.

I hope my son will get well soonest and the cough and sneeze will shoo away. It's hard seeing and hearing him coughing so hard. I know how painful it is in the throat :(

While me:

I am having a toothache since yesterday morning. I just woke up and feel that my tooth is aching. It has already a hole and is not in condition, and whenever I eat a small portion of the food goes inside of the hole and it causes pain but it will fade away when I get rid of the food. However, yesterday and today were different even though there is nothing inside it is still aching bad. I already drink meds to lessen the pain but it seems to have no effect and it looks like it's begun to swell, not yet obvious on my face right now but I can touch it.

As much as I wanted to get rid of this decaying tooth I can't because it is costly. I can't afford it yet, yes I have work but my salary is just enough to cover the needs of my family and my baby. I need to budget my money. For now, I can still manage the pain, I just need to take meds again maybe it will affect me now.

Ps. I can't upload pictures because of poor internet connection here, so no more pictures for today's blog.

Thank you for reading! Have a good night :)

-Loveleng18