Who nose?
Why do feet smell, and nose runs? Isn’t it the
opposite? The supposition being noses
should be the one smelling and feet are the ones running?........
This vacation strengthens the notion that the nose is
mightier than the feet, because without the nose, you cannot run…. Why? the
nose rules. And if you poke it with that white furry cotton buds….it will
determine your fate in the next couple of days!!!!!!!!
Coming back to the Philippines for a vacation was not that appealing
as it did 2 years ago. With the pandemic
plus ‘Odette’, the super typhoon that just passed, I came at a chaotic
time. It should not have been, after
all, I was coming home for Christmas---the best time of the year.
My nose had its runs.
Two swab tests in L.A. before boarding the plane for the
Philippines. (Two because my first
flight was cancelled, and I already had an RT-PCR and another before my final
departure 5 days later.). Then upon
arrival at the Mactan Airport, I was swabbed, then at the hotel where I
quarantined, another swab…and three days later a final swab by the Cebu Health Department
before they released me from the hotel to spend the remainder of my quarantine
at my destination.
One day, my youngest grandson did not feel well and so my
daughter decided to give her household a swab test. That day, no nose was spared from being swabbed
to determine if one is doomed or free for the next few days. Sure enough,
my two grandsons and two housemaids tested positive for that dreaded virus
lurking around the globe. The other half
which included me, my daughter and her husband, my son and another house help
tested negative. It was a sigh of
relief. Immediately like a trained
military leader, daughter ordered the ‘negatives’ into their rooms, to be imprisoned
for a few days.
The house help had their own quarters outside of the house,
therefore that was convenient. My grandsons were isolated in one room complete
with their snacks, technological gadgets and school modules. (Even if online
was hampered due to Odette that cut off some lines, schools kept them educated
through modules they had to submit.)
My daughter was concerned for my sake as I might get bored,
since being exposed to ‘positives’ it would just be right to self-quarantine. I told her about my main purpose in coming
was to be with my son and daughter’s family, be out of the cold in NY this
winter, and attend to several family matters, plus do some research for my
dissertation. She had wanted to billet
me at a hotel so I could be free which I declined since I do not need mobility
but just the internet and a printer plus access to a phone.
It did not take long, that everyone in the household tested ‘positive’. It surprised me more, because I had no
symptoms whatsoever, and tested ‘negative’ at the onset of everyone’s swab
test. But in due time as they would have
it, ‘one for all, all for one.” ……. Household was in a melancholy vacation mode
of rest, eat, sleep, and binge watching tele series on the tube.
Today my grandkids and the house help tested ‘negative’ for
the virus. A clear sign that isolation,
quarantine, and proper medication plus a lot of rest is indeed a cure. In a few
days, we will all be back to normal—a clear sign, that if one heeds to protocols….it
works!!!!
In finality: my 6-year-old
grandson thinks he is smarter than a fifth grader….and he is only in the first
grade. He says that his favorite subject
is math, so his mother gave him a test… and it goes something like this:
Mom: what is 5 plus 5
Grandson: that is 10
Mom: what if you add
8
Grandson: that is 18
Mom: what is minus 4
Grandson: then that would be 14
Mom: NO! wrong! It’s for smelling!!! My nose is for smelling!
Grandson: (thinks for a while and says) ……MOM!
Well, if you ask me, in today’s era my nose is for swabbing…….
for it will determine if your feet will be able to run in the next 14 days……who
nose? Di ba?
BTW….I tested Negative……..And I did say it was for a
pregnancy one, right? 😂😂😂
Pastilan!!!!!
