disclaimer: names of the characters have been changed to protect their identity.

it has been a while since i visited my blog...but with events of today, i find the need to document in my blog suck it up.  such is life.  even as we live it, there are certain events that happen which are so UNBELIEVABLE that we would just have to laugh at it in order for it to have good comic index and for the experience to have high value. 

sayang sa time kung di tayo tumawa. 

the following is such an event.

today i got a text from my dad: "sir magandang hapon po.  john po ito.  sir baka pede niyo naman po tulungan papa ko kasi mag iisang linggo na po siyang hindi nakakakain.  kahit po tubig ininusuka niya agad.  Parang awa niyo na sir, tulunggan (yes, spelled this way) niyo naman po kami.  Marissa, please help Mr. Dioqno. Daddy JT Lim"

I read the message twice and sounds of crickets came into mind.  I don't know if i was suffering short term memory loss, or if i was stuck in an alternate universe.  yes, the text came from my dad but i really didn't get the message.  he was referring to jonathan or mr diocton as if they were our closest family friends, but i had NO idea who they were.

I didn't know what to say.  so i texted the obvious.

i replied a curt, nose-wrinkling, alta-toned reply with a hint of disgust and distaste: "who's that?"

my dad replied: "Mr. Dioqno, father of Marjorie and husband of Mama Mary Dioqno of Pateros"

pause.

then, it made made sense.  but it turned my life into a funnier, twilight zone-ier life. 

if you get this story, then you are included in my circle of closest friends.  hehehe.

i did all that i could to stop myself from rolling on the floor laughing.  i was living my life everyday, but even then, i could not believe that this was happening. 

so of course, i performed all my doctorly functions to that patient. later on, i get a message saying "mamamatay na siya" and "cancer, baka cancer, kung kailangan ng CT scan, sagutin mo muna, babayaran ko!"  OMG.  Then as it turns out, this Mr. Dioqno is a 56 (take note, 56 is really way less than 70) year old male who is ambulatory and very fit, walking to our ER.  talk about near death.  so i endorsed him to the ER officer and instructed them to text me if there was a problem.

to hellellell with these doctorly functions which i want to get out of.  i have no obligation to these people.  but just like that, i was vortexed into a family i really didn't want to get into.

but then again, we are taught, early in life, to suck it up. 

so i did.