LIFE Notes Manila

  July 06, 2024. Saturday The negotiations with the hospital admin on the promissory note was a disaster last July 04 (for background, see the very first post of this blog). They were not willing to help us pay them and they stubbornly stuck with the date in the promissory which is July 08, Monday, giving us a mere three days to work it out (except Saturday and Sunday) to look for funds. Imagine looking for 320K pesos in 3 days. They were so unreasonable.  Photo by Natanael Melchor on Unsplash . We understand that it's already a signed promissory, but out of too much stress and depression (my son and his wife stayed in the hospital for some 2 weeks and the compounded daily rates were giving us a hell of a stress and often depression and frustration). I know my son was dead wrong to take his wife to that costly hospital without enough money, but their obstetrician is from that hospital and my son thought it dangerous to change hospital abruptly, and a hospital where their doct...

  July 02, 2024. Tuesday Mt first blog entry. We have been trying to figure out how to help our son settle his hospital bills incurred by his girlfriend (GF) or live-in partner (LIP) who gave birth to a baby girl at a very expensive private medical center in San Juan. They've been held there for 2 weeks now due to inability to settle their bills and payables. My son suddenly lost his account at his call center job although his company was able to give him and his team a new client account. So he's under training again. That means no salary yet. Photo by Martha Dominguez de Gouveia on Unsplash . And it's largely my son's fault, really. I had warned him of sending his GF to a private hospital for delivery, much worse to this medical center famous for catering the rich and famous, but for some wild reasons he insisted. I suspect it's his GF's wishes. I had told my son never to opt for a private hospital because he was not prepared, especially if the delivery resul...