Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

I missed the appointment to see the doctor three days ago. A few reasons, first, I wasn’t feeling very well; second, I needed to stay home and finish writing an essay due the next day; third, I didn’t have enough money to pay the consultation fee.

So, if I can’t see the doctor then I could get sick, and when I’m sick I won’t be able to do any work, and without work I won’t have any income, without income I wouldn’t have enough to pay the doctor and buy medicine to get better.

Oh but of course, it’s not really all too hopeless and desperate. My family is here, and I do have some savings (but not really big enough, so if I can save on not seeing the doctor for now I’d do it, but I will make sure I see her next week, anyway I am not an emergency case) , I still have enough to eat and have my mother’s house to live in. And I’m really still very lucky.

But everyone here deserves much better.

My uncle had an enlarged heart and he couldn’t work because of that (he tried very hard but always got refused or laid off). So he doesn’t have enough money to buy medicine. When he did have medication, he’d cut it in half. If there wasn’t any medication, he’d just sleep and hope he’d still be alive the next day. My brother have five kids and he earns barely enough for all of them. Sometimes if there’s no milk (because baby milk is expensive) they put sugar in water to feed the kids. One day the water wasn’t clean because of flooding so the kids got amoebiasis and had to be confined to hospital.

Many years ago I decided not to have any kids.

It has been a rather depressive weekend.

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