You’ll never believe this but last weekend we were in for a rude awakening. FIL ended up in the hospital. Because of his age and this happening for the first time, we were all a nervous wreck.

But, thank GOD he’s back home now and doing so much better. He went to the hospital for a medical procedure to remove the stone from his bladder and to correct his enlarged prostate. Everything happened all of a sudden and the surprise was definitely not one that we’d like to have repeated.

We brought him to the hospital upon the GP’s referral. We didn’t even decide to go to his regular University Hospital where FIL is a pensioner but to another private hospital. We knew that if we brought him to UH, there will be delays and whatnots. This private one was way more efficient and they assigned him the urologist immediately. Of course, we will have to pay through our noses or more like, we already did but nevertheless, we didn’t think about what it would have cost us then. All we had in mind was FIL and how we were gonna get him well.

After this episode, hubby’s now scouting around for possible insurance policy for his parents. They don’t have insurance plans because like I said, they are pensioners and well, the government’s supposed to take care of them. After this incident, we are not taking any chances; we will be hunting for one soon. Although, we have no clue as to what kind of insurance plans we are looking for; possibly one that is as good as the NC health insurance, if we can find one. And, nothing less mind u, we are talking about saving lives here!!