I've Fought and I Won

“Thanks God, I’m alive!” That’s usually the word a person could stay after passing through a very difficult situation in life-especially a situation concerning life and death.

It’s almost five in the afternoon, when my dextrose is about to get off of my hand. I was confined for five days because of a serious illness. Five days of fighting against Dengue. Five days of staying in a room for sick people. I, being a strong person, seem so weak that time.

Three days before my confinement, I got fever. I’m chilling, so weak yet fighting. I thought it was just a usual/normal fever. Even though my body condition is not really good, I managed to go to Laguna to stay with my mother, for her to take care of me. But my condition is getting worst. I don’t eat. My stomach seems don’t want to accept food. It’s aching. I try to sleep to forget the pain but I can’t. it was terribly painful.

Thursday dawn, we went to the hospital for check up. I am chilling in Pain in my stomach. I thought It is just because of acidity but I am wrong. I was diagnosed with Dengue (Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles. In a small proportion of cases the disease develops into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever, resulting inbleeding, low levels of blood platelets and blood plasma leakage, or into dengue shock syndrome, where dangerously low blood pressure occurs. Treatment of acute dengue is supportive, using either oral or intravenous rehydration for mild or moderate disease, and intravenous fluids and blood transfusion for more severe cases.). 

From 150-350 normal platelets counts, mine is only 76 in the morning. It downed to 25-24 by afternoon. My doctor advised me to undergo blood transfusion because my platelet goes down very fast. I am a JW and blood transfusion is strongly prohibited (Acts 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” “Gen. 9:3, 4: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you. Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat.”)

I prayed so hard. I also received a lot of phone calls from my spiritual brothers and sisters, friends and relatives. Other visited me in the hospital. I truly felt the REAL love – a love from my brothers and sister, my family and friends, and most importantly from Jehovah.

Little by little, my platelet is getting back to normal. No need for blood transfusion!!! It was indeed a miracle and a blessing. I"ve FOUGHT and I WON!

Finally, I was discharged from the hospital. My wheelchair is ready to bring me to the hospital exit. I’m excited to go home, to play with my Nephew again; to see my laptop and do the usual things-WORK. J