Sunday, September 7, 2008

show me money

My sister has just called up that we need a relatively large amount of money for the antibiotic of my mother. Yes, relatively large amount of money because we are not financially stable at this time. Only I and my one sister are taking care the burden of keeping my mother in the hospital. And now that my mother is already one and half month in the hospital, we spent the supposedly reserve money for the payment of bills for the discharge of my mother from the hospital.

While I borrowed money from a friend and from the office's cooperative of P100,000. My sister spent the daily expenses which do not go below P1700, excluding the food and fare in visiting my mother in the hospital. That is acceptable for her and her husband, but when the expenses soared to P2000 and above a day, they can hardly meet it up because the income of their veterinary clinic cannot cope with their expenses and monthly payments for veterinary medicines and other supplies and it is not always everyday that there will be patient. So, we resorted to get money from the reserve.

Before, when my mother needed an albumin supplement, we think that was still fine when each bottle costs P4200 and we needed 6 bottles. We felt a little worry when an additional 6 bottles were needed week after when her protein was still below the normal, accordingly because of her being immobile and bedridden. And now, week after we were done with the albumin, we needed again an antibiotic that costs P1,300 each and should be given 4x a day for 7 days. This is aside with her maintenance for her stroke medications. This antibiotic (Piperacillin + Tazobactam) is needed for her infection acquired in the hospital because of her tracheostomy.

I was wondering, until when can we survive with this? I believed God is with us so we need not to worry.

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