I saw my high school classmate on Facebook. I saw her wearing hospital scrubs in one of her photos. So I asked her if she is a doctor or a nurse. She replied that she is a nurse. That didn’t came as a surprise to me because most of my classmates, male and female alike are nurses or taking a second course to become a nurse.
Here in the Philippines, most graduates from the past years are mostly taking up nursing. All wants to be a nurse because this is one of the quickest ways to go abroad. Filipino nurses are hired everywhere and mostly in demand in Europe and in the US.
But of course, aside from nurses, the second most in demand in Europe and in the US, are SpEd teachers; special education teachers especially in urban areas.
As for me, I am likely to study education as my second course rather than nursing. I won’t probably last a day injecting humans especially babies!
When I have the time, I do watch those soap operas on TV, either by a local production or those international dramas that are dubbed in the local language. Some of them have plots where the paternity of the child needs to be tested and I would often hear them say, “Let’s have a DNA test.” Then the results would come out and the drama begins.
But I learned through the local news that DNA testing, though already common, is still quite expensive. In the Philippines, it is about P40,000 or roughly $1000 and I am not sure if the figure has gone down since I have last heard of it. If anything, I think it would just go up. Gee, so I guess it is not easy to get DNA testing after all because you will still have to secure that much money!
When I was younger, I never even thought about health risks. I mean yeah, I got sick, but the most I got was a flu. And well, I also get the occasional colds. I believe that here in the Philippines, these two are the most common ailments.
But when I got older, I had to contend with chest pains and even high blood pressure. Five years ago, I would not have given these conditions a second thought. But well it happens. I just hope I will not get to the point that I will reach obesity and have to be treated with phentermine. I am right now starting to become overweight, but at least it is still manageable. As skinny as I was before, I never thought that I will have a problem with weight issues! Now I realize how hard it is to lose weight and why many women spend so much and diet and weight loss products. Now I am in the same boat with them.
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