of Aches and Pains

tried jogging. new sport? hobby? torture? half walked and half jogged my way round 7 laps of ultra's track last tuesday, october 6. ok, 2/3 walked. then on october 8, not wanting to break what i was able to start, i planned on jogging again. unfortunately, power outages confined me to jog in the comfort of my home instead. today, i tried again. that's three days now. i wonder how long i will be able to keep this up. lower body aches.

mom got her lumpectomy (?) operation yesterday. if i had patience and saw the point of a twitter account, it would probably look like this:
october 9, 2009
2am - just finished reformatting & reinstalling stuff on our dektop pc. ready to sleep.
6am - woke up early to accompany parents to the hospital.
645am - left the house.
803am - hate the makati traffic. arrived at makati med. accompanied mom to have dyes injected.
830am - had seattle's best hot chocolate and chicken pie. *yum*
945am - accompanied mom to OR.
1010am - mom got prepped. waited outside.
1030am - dad got coffee. can't piss coz nurse might come out looking for us and/or mom might need something.
1045am - dad still not back from coffee break. really need to go pee.
1050am - waiting area really really cold. want. pee. now.
1055am - dad finally back. gotta go pee.
1120am - dad inquires with OR. operation has started.
1130am - dad needs to go and "survey" parking area and check if car's park lights were left on. (probably an excuse to smoke)
1145am - so cold. have my jacket on already. gotta pee again. dad's not back yet. can't pee.
1200nn - dad got back. visited the restroom again.
1215pm - dad inquired with OR again. operation ongoing.
1220pm - dad went to "survey" restaurants and/or where we can have lunch.
1230pm - getting hungry. and sleepy.
1245pm - some random family's population (also waiting in the area) getting bigger.
1pm - lola from said family already invading my personal space on the seats.
115pm - hungry and grumpy. lola's space invasion increases. feet now raised on seat. *ew*
120pm - family evolves to a baranggay.
130pm - 3 seater accommodates a lola, a guy, a chubby lady, and me. dad decides to go get lunch for us. mcdo take out it is.
1:32pm - chicken burger, large fries, and regular orange juice, please.
1:50pm - got chicken burger, regular fries, and large orange juice instead. left to pee. again.
2pm - OR: operation still ongoing.
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jacq curses and abandons twitter. patience ends here.

anyway, mentioned family increased exponentially in population. by the way, patient they were visiting and waiting for just had a torn stitch on his leg. personal space left: 10% of 3-seater. noise increases to xx db, failed to hear nurse's announcements. got pissed. thisclose to throwing a fit. mom's operation ended at 3pm. had to let her sleep for a while. in the mean time, we processed the bills. she had a pathologist, anesthesiologist, and the oncologist. one of the three had a doctor's fee twice the OR dues. the other had half the OR dues. and one had 1/8. (sounds like a math problem gone bad) everything totaled to more than 150k. God help us. well, most important thing's mom's better. the verdict was a good news of stage 1 breast cancer which hadn't affected the surrounding lymph nodes. she would still have to do the radiation and maybe the chemo though. i'm temporarily playing nurse. had merienda with dad's lady boss. food was eh... ok. then went on home. phone battery died. passed by little store to buy more food.

got home... a new story altogether.
main door's dead bolt jammed. keys were rendered useless. the bolt simply didn't want to turn. triple checked if we were trying to open the right door/unit. mom's sister and our cousin came to see how mom was doing. waited with us outside. finally had to call in a locksmith to force it open. dad bought new bolt to replace it. additional expenses. kaching kaching.

all's well that ends well. for now.