My mother's advice and stories about saving up marked into my head and heart that when I finally started to earn myself, I also applied it to myself. Her advice and tips become my guidelines, and thanks to that, I have a little money in my wallet. I can sustain my needs, and at the same time, I can help with the expenses in our house.
But those savings can be dried up in an instant due to those unforseen events. It's sad because it took us years to save up, but it will only take a short time for it to run out. It'll be no problem if we have "a lot" of savings, but what if we don't have that much? If only having unlimited money is that easy, no? But not all people can have that much money. That's the sad reality.
But anyways, some of you are already aware of my surgery on February 5, 2024. Then I have to be admitted again last February 24 due to bleeding of my nose, no choice, and that's another expense again.
After the first surgery, I'm still confident because I have my savings. I'm just lucky that my mommy F volunteers to lend money to me. She will lend me her retirement money in the meantime, and I promised her that I would pay for it. And just to make sure, I also told her that it may take years for me to pay for that debt, but she agreed, and so I proceeded with the surgery.
The surgery was a success, and I can finally breathe again in my nose. I'm really grateful to my mom, seriously. And the reason why I told her it may take me years to pay for my debt is because my money is in crypto and I'm just waiting for the bull run, so it may really take some time. Of course she understands, she knows about my cryptoblogging journey and how crypto has helped me a lot of times already, she's a witness to that. That is why she can trust that I can surely pay off my debt.
So here's the amount she pays at the hospital. That's not all of them because she had to spend money on the biopsy of those polyps that were taken from me and also on the blood. If I add them up, I think I have 135,000 PHP in debt to her. I never really thought that it would be this big, but even with PhilHealth, it didn't do much for it.
And you know, I thought this was the final amount of my debt, but then something happened on February 24 that I had to be admitted to the hospital, and unfortunately, I have a bill of 35,000 PHP. With my PhilHealth it became 22,000 PHP. Shit can really do happen, sad to say, tch. I haven't even started paying on my first debt, and here's another one, tch. It sucks, really!
When I saw the bills, I was like, "WHAT THE ACTUAL FVCK?!!?!" I just really can't believe that for just one and a half days, my bills are already this big. Like really! WHY? And that is why, even though I am really shy about asking for help from someone else, I still did it. Because I know to myself that I can't do this alone and that I really need help. And this pushed me to ask for help on this amazing platform.
Once I felt better, I started to compose the words I needed to write for my article. It took me hours to compose it because my vision at that time was still a little blurry. Well, I lost too much blood, so that's to be expected. Or maybe it's really because I've got poor eyes now, lol. Kidding aside, I wrote THIS article with some expectation. I'm really not expecting that much, though, because I know that we are all facing our own battle, but I still take my chance here.
After publishing my article, I put down my phone and went back to sleep. I also share my GCash account on that article and also on Facebook because I badly need financial help. And then, OMG, I first received help from this one person, I received 1500 PHP from him, it's the same person that already gave help before. God bless him really for his kindness. I messaged him in discord to give my thanks to him. When I received a notification from GCash, I showed it to my mama excitedly.
Then more came the next day. Seeing my wallet balance change really made me happy. I almost cried, but with tears or joy. Just imagine the amount it can contribute to my big bills. I'm just full of gratitude.
And it didn't end there because there were more amazing people who sent help to me. Seriously, guys, "thank you" is not enough to say how grateful I am to you. You are seriously a blessing to me, all of you guys.
And here's more ( ◜‿◝ )♡, thank you @hiveph community and Adamada po, a billion thanks to all of you (✯ᴗ✯).
And last night someone sent this to me. Thank you so much, whoever you are. Thank you, thank you, salamat (◜‿◝ )♡.
And to those who curated that article, a billion thanks to all of you. I borrowed a total of 24,000 PHP from my mommy again to pay the bills at that time and for the blood and so that I could be discharge immediately. I already sent 15,000 PHP in total to her, and those amounts that I received will be given to my mommy as a payment for the rest, which is 9,000 PHP.
Once again, THANK YOU EVERYONE. I will never forget this help I received from you all.
