06/22/2022: Here's Another Reason To Hustle More Harder

ARTICLE NO. 91 OF 2022
TITLE: <06/22/2022: Here's Another Reason To Hustle More Harder>
DATE OF PUBLISHING: <JUNE 22, 2022>

How much do you love your Mom? What are your greatest fears in relation to her?

Me? So much that even the word "love" won't be enough to define how I intense my feelings is for her. I had shared many things about my Mama in some of my short posts in noise.cash and blogs here at read.cash. Like how most of us describes our mothers, mine we're "the best that no one in the world can beat & replace her."

I won't trade her for anyone out there who's more financially capable, educated & professional, and successful in life. No! She's rare and I opt to keep her only for me and my siblings.

What do I feared the most to happen to my, our parents?

Be sick. Yes, for them to be diagnosed with any disease or illness. Why? If it happens, it'll be a serious problem for us. Primarily because it will gonna test us more than ever especially our financial capabilities.

Our family isn't rich. I am not even sure if I can call us "average." In a daily basis, money was our greatest challenger. Aside from financial reasons, I and my siblings couldn't afford to lose one of them, especially Mama. That fears me the most~ can't even imagine it to occur.

If you can still remember, Mama was attending two different jobs: as a laundry washer (labandera) and maid (kasambahay).

Every morning, she will leave the house around 5:00 to 5:30AM and comes back by 9 o'clock AM. As a kasambahay, her tasks are to wash the dishes, clean the backyard, and do the laundries once a week. When she returns at home, she'll do various chores too. In short, she often has no time to rest.

Whenever I'm seeing Mama looking so tired and exhausted just to earn little amount of money, I can't stop myself to think and ask:

"What now, Papa? Are you even feeling guilty that you made and pushed Mama to carry all your supposed-to-be-responsibilities? While you're here, doing nothing but to watch movies, lay down, sleep, and be so demanding."

I may be a bad daughter at this point but I can't stop it. Nagpatong-patong na lang sama ng loob ko sa kaniya~

Apparently, my fear seems to happen for real and not just with me, thinking of it.

Mama's boss is our late grandmother's old friend who's living alone in their house as her husband had died long time ago and their children are all in overseas. Let's just call her "Lola V."

Lola V had been regularly checking Mama's sugar level for free as she's afraid that my mother might possibly inherited our grandma's illness, diabetes. It's been three consecutive days that her sugar level was around 290 to 370.

For me, Lola V's tests has flaws. Like she's doing it after Mama do her tasks which tends for her sugar level to rose up, that shouldn't be like that. But to be honest, it already made me and Mama worried and think of many what ifs.

Why be worried? Diabetes is a serious illness, it was also known to be a "traitor." This is what caused Lola to passed away. Even before, I ain't a fan of sweets. Seems like its a poison for me. Yes, I do consumed foods and drinks with sugar but just moderately. Don't want to be a heiress of it~ I've been strict too with my parent's and sibling's sugar intake.

This morning, Mama came home more earlier. I saw her sitting in the living room, alone and silent. In there, I already have an idea that there's something wrong and was bothering her. And, I'm right. Her sugar level had rosen up again. Minutes after, I saw her crying. Gosh! That's one of my weaknesses, her tears.

So I asked her, "Mama, what's wrong?" There, she told me that she wants to have her checked but she lacked in money. So I said, "go and have your checkup even in the pharmacy na lang muna. And, I'll give you my extra money here."

I only have PhP 500.00+ ($9.15) here and I should be spending it for my sister's sandals for her graduation. But, Mama's health is way more important. Told her what to use that money to buy medicines, green tea, and wheat breads. She don't like teas but I said, "no, Mama. I'll be more strict from now on and you should follow me this time, okay?" Glad that she obeyed and starts preparing.

After more than an hour, they returned with a good news. According to the registered pharmacist, it's not diabetes. It was just because of what she had been consuming these past few days but she should be more conscious with her foods and drinks. Also, she'll undergo a checkup by Sunday (06.24.2022) when their resident Doctor visits their branch.

The pharmacist also suggested for her to take food supplement which contains natural bitter gourd, moringa leaves, and turmeric. She'll be taking it for 10 days or until the day of her checkup. Apparently, she didn't buy a box of green tea coz it's quite expensive daw. And I was like, "MAMAAA! You should've bought it. That money is your's naman na."

Aside from the food supplement, I'll be lessening her rice consumption. Only a cup of rice per meal will be served for her and I'll be doing the measuring personally. Will make a chart for her and be more strict. It will be an additional responsibility for me but it's fine. I'll do it for her and her health~ good thing that she's different from Lola, not stubborn.

Hopefully, her next checkup will show similar results. *crossed fingers*

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