Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Miracles do Happen..... It happened to me....

A year and a half today, i went back to my blog. Never have posted anything since i cannot remember when. Then i saw this unfinished post, it was about my Dad's Miracle. A colleague wanted me to write about it coz we cried when i told them the story and to give hope to those who need it and to let readers know that miracles do happen... I forgot about it until now...

So, I am posting it now.. the part 1 of it.. This gave me reason to blog again...


God Makes Miracles Happen thru His Angels

Just this year, my family have been a witness to so many miracles from Him. My dad was diagnosed by a 3 vessel coronary artery disease and he badly needed a Triple heart bypass.

July last year, my dad experienced severe chest pain at home, alone. At around 11pm, alone in our house in Matusalem,Roxas Isabela, he suddenly felt a heavy chest and cant move due to pain. He was alone because my mom was with my family here in Manila. They sacrificed being apart to help their kids. Dad dont want to leave his "bukid" since this is their primary source of income as retired senior citizens.

That episode happened twice that month. My dad normally dont want to go to the doctor but when he ask mom to accompany him to the doctor, we knew it was serious...

August to December was a series of check-ups, laboratory and maintenance medication. But despite being monitored by his internal doctor, he still felt pain even during late hours of night. We would be awaken by the lights in their room in late in the night. Dad is restless due to chest pain and mom is worried.

Finally, his internist advised that he undergo Angiogram, it is an xray of the heart that will confirm suspected blockages in his heart.
His angiogram showed 3 major artery that are 100% disfunctional. The left xray showed the normal blood flow, while the right showed my dad's xray. Even if i am not a "medical" person, i can see that there's a problem... 

Immediately after the angiogram, the cardo doctor who did the procedure talked to us and this is when we knew he has 3 vessel coronary artery disease and he needs Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting or simply Heart Bypass or CABG (medical term).

The next logical question was How Much? And the doctor told us the procedure is worth P750,000.00. Our shoulders and jaws dropped all at the same time....
But the doctor said procedures like this can be applied with Philhealth, and we could apply for Philhealth's Z benefit program where in they will shoulder P550K of the procedure. We had hope.

On the next checkup, the doctor explain how can we avail of the Z benefit program. We had papers to sign,laboratory procedures to repeat and clearances to acquire. It was a long list of  to-dos but its the only option we know we can do. So step 1 was to acquire all all documents to fill, 2nd is to be oriented on the procedure.
During step 2, we received the bad news, so bad, it shattered all our hearts into pieces... The Philhealth personel checked the requirements that we have, she saw our 2D echo results and i could see in her face "Bad News" tattooed over her forehead. I could feel it.
She went inside, we waited outside the waiting area, minutes after, we saw our cardiologist rushing inside where the girl was. I felt something bad is going to happen...

Then our cardiologist went out of the door, in his hands were all our papers and folders, went straight to us and delivered the news.... "Hindi po tayo nakapasa sa Z-benefit" was all i could ingest from his words.

Apparently, Philhealth only allowed "Standard-Risk" patients into the program. Dad was "HIGH-RISK". His 2D Echo indicated that a portion is heart is already not moving, similar to a wound scar tissue, this was due to the limited supply of oxygen/blood to the left portion of the heart.

So..
High risk case -- needed by-pass immediately -- no P700k on hand...
... it was like the world fell on our shoulders, blood left our faces kind of a reaction...
i dont want to look at the faces of my parents , we were all devastated...
..i felt pressured at that moment, i need to think of how to give them hope in this trying desperate time..

I returned to our doctor's office the next day, determined to find other options to our situation.
He offered me to avail of the Phil Heart Center package for CABG for P700K  as a private patient. If i am going to avail of the package, i have to make a 50% down payment before they do the procedure.

But still we don't have even P350K???? Is that an option??? OMG!!! My mind panicked...

I didn't know how i switched the conversation around, but i told him straight-face, sincerely, i think with a little teary eyed, "Doc, wala kaming ganyang pera..."

I would like to believe that he genuinely would like to help, because he started to write down doctor endorsement in five pages. And with her secretary advised that i could reach out to different agencies and politician thru this letter.

So that's the plan, i will solicit help from agencies, politicians and who ever is willing to help, and i will return to him when i have P350K... then that's the only time we can have the operation...

Gosh!!

I cannot contain in me the devastation,  the heart-breaking news... i have to let it out... I cant tell my parents i cant do it.  As the "Äte" of the family, i was pressured to make this happen..


Due to desperation, i succumb myself to pressure and vent out my frustrations in FB. I cant help but be frustrated with how can't the government provide free medical service to us, tax payers.  I also felt helpless at the moment for not preparing well for this moment financially.

I prayed and prayed for wisdom.

Prayed hard...


.. to be continued..


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