ANTI-RABIES SHOTS FOR DITSE

Last night Ditse arrived home from visiting her apos in Tondo and it seems their situation is still pretty much the same (the girl, her manugang, still bitching about Ditse's son) and her grandkids still crying buckets of tears whenever Ditse leaves them. It’s a heartbreaking situation that they have but it’s the best that she can do since her manugang won’t let her borrow the kids anymore because she’s using them to spite her wayward husband and make him come back to her (highly unlikely!) So even though she can’t stand being with her manugang and her troublesome family, she still makes it a point to visit her grandchildren because she loves them dearly. Her visit would have ended uneventfully if not for her being bitten by a stray cat as she was about to leave. She said the cat bit her on the heel of her foot and at first she thought nothing of it but last night when she mentioned it, I immediately grew apprehensive because I knew for a fact that cats have rabies too. So I searched the internet and saw that indeed some stray cats have higher rabies than dogs because they forage around in dirty trash bins and thus their bites are more prone to infections.

The next day at work, after the office flag raising and while eating breakfast of oatmeal on my desk I decided to conduct a more thorough search and discovered that the first thing she needs is a tetanus shot within 48 hours. And so I immediately texted her and told her to proceed to the nearest health center so she can have her shots for free. I tried to search for nearby animal shots center so she would not have to go all the way to San Lazaro where we went when my son was bitten by a dog when he was just four years old. Good thing, an officemate of mine said that anti-rabies shots were given at the San Jose del Monte health center and so the next day, DItse went there where it would be much cheaper. She spent only 500 for the first shot and the rest of the money I gave her (I gave 1K from the first pisonet savings) she spent on antibiotics. She told the health center officer that she didn’t have much money to spare so she was given a discount on the 2nd shot and would pay again on the third shot another 500, so I guess it’s better that way, huh! At least now she can sleep better at night knowing she would not suddenly howl at night like a rabid dog or feel her body stiffen as the rabies slowly spreads to her nervous system and her brain…ugh! Well, at least that’s one less thorn from our side, I just hope she stays safe from now on.