Alice and I did not get a good night sleep yesterday because of the news that our two boys were rushed to the hospital late last night. The culprit, food poisoning. Yesterday was the 25th wedding anniversary of Kuya Pepe and Ate Thelma. Kuya Pepe is one of Alice's brothers, and is the third in her family. For their 25th anniversary, they decided they will renew their vows and wed again (we're hoping we could do that also). Anyways, my mother, who attended the occasion, said it was a very successful activity and everybody (re: Alice's clan) was there. From our family, my three children -River, Rain, and Ash, my parents, and my sister Marian and her family attended the occasion. Everybody had a good time they said, especially the kids who ate lots of food. They went home at around 7:30 in the evening tired but happy.
And so we thought that the occasion was successful indeed.
At around 8:30 pm local time (12:30 am in the Philippines), while watching TV, I received a text message from dad asking me to call him quickly for an urgent development. Before I could call, my brother-in-law Bryan called me to tell the news that River is in the hospital, and they are about to bring Ash too due to continuous vomitting. I also learned that my mother, my other brother-in-law, Elmer, and his two sons are already there for the same reason. Both I and Alice started to get scared.
We decided to call Alice's family to check further. There, they narrated that some of the family's members are also already in the hospital suffering the same sickness. They were food poisoned.
Talking to my father later gave us some sense of relief. He intimated that River, Ash, my mother and the others, although still vomitting from time to time, are all already stable and are recuperating from the ordeal. He told us not to worry too much anymore, even joking that it's a good thing he and my sister Marian were spared so that they can take care of the others. He said that we don't have to worry about our little girl, Rain, since she was not affected also and is currently sleeping soundly at home.
Though the situation had already become somewhat stable, we still had apprehensions which resulted in not able to sleep comfortably the whole night. Very early this morning, my mother called to say they are well and resting. I called River to check on his condition and he said he feels fine already, and had taken his breakfast. Ash is still asleep when I called so I did not bother waking him up. It will be better for him to rest. I called home, and my little girl answered the phone. The first thing she said to me was "I did not vomit last night, daddy". It was comforting. I asked her if she feels anything different or funny, and she said she's fine. It gave her mother a big sense of relief.
Alice and I got scared big time last night. Thank God everything is better now.
And so we thought that the occasion was successful indeed.
At around 8:30 pm local time (12:30 am in the Philippines), while watching TV, I received a text message from dad asking me to call him quickly for an urgent development. Before I could call, my brother-in-law Bryan called me to tell the news that River is in the hospital, and they are about to bring Ash too due to continuous vomitting. I also learned that my mother, my other brother-in-law, Elmer, and his two sons are already there for the same reason. Both I and Alice started to get scared.
We decided to call Alice's family to check further. There, they narrated that some of the family's members are also already in the hospital suffering the same sickness. They were food poisoned.
Talking to my father later gave us some sense of relief. He intimated that River, Ash, my mother and the others, although still vomitting from time to time, are all already stable and are recuperating from the ordeal. He told us not to worry too much anymore, even joking that it's a good thing he and my sister Marian were spared so that they can take care of the others. He said that we don't have to worry about our little girl, Rain, since she was not affected also and is currently sleeping soundly at home.
Though the situation had already become somewhat stable, we still had apprehensions which resulted in not able to sleep comfortably the whole night. Very early this morning, my mother called to say they are well and resting. I called River to check on his condition and he said he feels fine already, and had taken his breakfast. Ash is still asleep when I called so I did not bother waking him up. It will be better for him to rest. I called home, and my little girl answered the phone. The first thing she said to me was "I did not vomit last night, daddy". It was comforting. I asked her if she feels anything different or funny, and she said she's fine. It gave her mother a big sense of relief.
Alice and I got scared big time last night. Thank God everything is better now.
