March 28, 2021 Sunday
I heard Boni talking to his friend Jaida*, whose family was also struck by Covid-19 a week earlier. “Hey, I tested positive, wanna play Roblox?”… Read More »March 28, 2021 Sunday
I heard Boni talking to his friend Jaida*, whose family was also struck by Covid-19 a week earlier. “Hey, I tested positive, wanna play Roblox?”… Read More »March 28, 2021 Sunday
I woke up at 4 a.m. with a splitting headache. It could be the stress from the previous days. I popped a pain reliever and… Read More »March 27, 2021 Saturday
Morning came and went. No barangay or city health officials came to fetch Auntie Liza or facilitate our tests. I called the barangay hall at… Read More »March 26, 2021 Friday
Boris, my nine-year-old, now has a cough, too. Buck called the barangay at 8 a.m., but was told the person in charge wasn’t there. We… Read More »March 25, 2021 Thursday
The testing team arrived at 7 a.m. Buck and I tested negative in the antigen test. Phew! Auntie Liza had an RT-PCR test. We paid… Read More »March 24, 2021 Wednesday
My seven-year-old son Boni approached me early in the morning to say that Auntie Liza has fever. I felt sucker-punched by the news. Is it… Read More »March 23, 2021 Tuesday