Thursday, April 10, 2008

This April, a lot of things just surprised me. Its like a jack-in-the-box; when you open it, it just pops out right in front of your face. This month also has been stressing me out majorly because of somethings I can't understand.

My lolo's brother, uncle Ben (may he rest in peace), just died, April 8, tuesday 5:45pm. He was confined at capitol medical center. His life was very sad. He was abandoned by his wife, sons and daughter. They left him because they didnt really like the way he acted. He treated them so badly, as if he didnt love them at all. And there he was, left all alone in the cold to fight for a living. My lolo pittied him, so he visited his brother occassionally and gave him money. Even though my lolo was being so nice to Uncle Ben, Uncle ben still went against my lolo and blamed everything on him. I felt sorry for my lolo because all the burden of his brother fell on him and still, his brother wouldnt just shut up and be nice to him. Time passed and they both grew old. And still, my lolo supported his very own brother. Then suddenly, while my lolo and uncle Ben were together, crossing the street, uncle Ben collapsed. My lolo rushed him to the neares hospital which was ospital ng maynila. The hospital told my lolo that they would have to put Uncle Ben in an ICU but unfortunatelly, they were occupied by too much ICU patients. So what my lolo did is to go all the way to capitol medical center because aside from it being a private hospital and not a government hospital, my mom worked there as a dentist. And there, Uncle Ben was confined as an ICU patient. When my mom and my lola heard this, they were shocked. So my mom called up the hospital and asked about uncle Ben and they said he was in a critical state. Next, my mom called the billing office and asked how much the bill was. She was very shocked because in one day, the bill reached 40, 000 pesos and had no idea how to pay it since all the bills were under her name because she works there. So what my lolo did was called up all his brothers and sisters and notified them about the event. They suddenly sent big amounts of money and everything was going smoothly. My mom tried to visit uncle Ben and she told me that he looks so weak but has a strong fighting spirit. She felt that he already wanted to die but he still wanted to se his sons and daughter before he dies. So what she did is called up a tv network and asked if they would be able to announce the names of the sons and daughter of uncle ben and if they could tell them to go to CMC because there father was in a critical state. The next day, the older brother came and he started crying when he saw his brother. Then the other siblings followed. That day, at around 2-3pm, the oxygen tank was taken off because there wasnt anything in it and the siblings didnt want to replace it since this would make the bill bigger since it reached an estimated bill of 100, 000 pesos. at 5:45pm, he died.

The next thing was the funeral. we tried to be a supportive family by attending to the wake every single dat from like 7 or 8pm to 1am. There, I discovered I still had cousins who I didnt realize were exsisting. I remember, while we were going home on the first day of the wake, my mom, sister and my lola were in the car with me while my mom's brother and lolo took the other car. While my mom drove, i startes to smell sampaguita and a candle burning. It smelled like the candle was burning the sampaguita and its smell was so strong all though my mom, my sister and my lola cant smell it and it was giving me the creeps.

And now everything was finally coming to an end on April 12, tommorrow, saturday at South Cemetery.

11:51 PM
♥ Lady Tin ♥

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