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The Planner

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I have lived my life and continue to live my life around organizers and planners.  This must be the OCness in me.  I started having one when I was still in high school.  And now I'm asking myself why I had one (hahaha!).  Did I have meetings and events back in high school? Lol :P  Maybe my classmates can remind me.   In college, organizers and planners became all the more important.  Schedule of exams, meetings, co-curricular activities and extra-curricular ones.  In law school, more important exams, meetings, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.   In the profession I am in right now, planners and organizers are a must.  I must say I have many professions, foremost of which is being a mom.  It's a full time job.  I am also a lawyer and an educator.  So having three (3) professions, it is all the more important to have a planner to schedule my life and to schedule everyone else's.  I write down my hear...

Toddlers and Antibiotics

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The other night, at around midnight, we had to rush our youngest to the Emergency Room.  He started having chills (this is something we can manage) but then he suddenly turned black.  This made us panic and so off we went to Davao Doctor's.  Surprisingly, we had a good experience at the ER of Davao Doc.  I was earlier consumed with negative thoughts as some of people I know had bad experiences.  The resident doctor was very nice, the nurses and the medtech were also very accommodating.  We were able to go home after he was given a suppository (I learned this is a must in one's medicine cabinet!) for his fever and after a routine CBC and urinalysis.  Although the results were not yet available, the youngest was adamant that he wanted to go home because his older sibling was not there with him (Ahia had to stay at home with Grandpa).  I was glad that he wasn't admitted.  I heaved a sigh of relief.  I don't like admitting kids to hospitals....