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Friday, 5 October 2007

Rhea - Ang Bida
Becky & Hazel - The Bodyguards
Marie - Passerby
Mylene - The Leg Raiser
Jake - The Car Transferer
Mama Carms - Key keeper #1
Reena - Key Keeper #2
Therese, Cynthia & Mylene (in a double role) - Voltz Teammates
Teng, Claire and Nancy - The Dragons (aka Opponents)
Rommel & Rey (the Canadian Embassy guy) - The Male Supporters
May - The Lady Guard
Anonymous – The Male Guard

It was the last game of this season's Ladies 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament before going to the finals. It was actually a no-bearing game as the Voltz and the Gems were already competing in the finals next Friday. It was fairly an even match up as only 3 players from both teams were available to play. My teammate Mylene was still out because of an injury she sustained from a badminton accident a few weeks ago. Mart, from the other team, was not available that Friday. So, that meant no substitutions for the whole 20 minutes for both teams.

I left my workstation around 5:30pm because I wanted to be early so I could warm up and practice shooting hoops. I left documents on my desk as I was planning to come back and work after the game. I was helping my friend Agie finish her RRP (which we OTed the previous night - went home after 11pm).

Game time was 6:00pm and the bleacher was filled to the rafters with 5 hecklers (Jake, Mawie, Rommel, Rey plus teammate Mylene). Hahahahaha.

Anyway, already 6 minutes into the game, the score was 0-8. We couldn't get our shooting game going. The pressure was growing (because of one heckler) and then the unexpected thing happened...

All I remember was I jumped for a rebound and on my way down, something happened and next thing I knew, there was numbness on my left foot. Something was terribly wrong. I immediately apologized to the person nearest to me, Cynthia, afraid that I stepped on her poor foot, but said I didn't step on her. But added that she felt something hit her knees. Sayang walang replay. tsk tsk!

At that moment, all I wanted to do was to sit down. Mylene called security for first aid. May, the Lady Guard, was first on the scene (wow parang CSI). She removed my sock which showed the left side of my foot already swelling. She bandaged my foot and placed an ice pack.

While sitting on the floor, a lot of things were going through my mind:

• Do I have to go the hospital and get my ankle x-rayed?
• Naku, my mom will worry when she finds out =(
• Pano na yung mga things ko sa workstation ko? Agie’s RRP? My computer? I couldn’t even remember where I placed the key to our room? Who can I ask? Haaaay
• My car! It’s parked in the basement! Even if my Kuya comes over to get it, somebody first has to drive it to the open parking. Arghhhhhh! E hindi pa naman marunong magdrive si Hazel at si Becky hehehehe Is my Kuya even at home??? Double Arghhhhhh Kung meron mang maglalabas ng car, and I’ll be taken to the hospital, sinong mabait na nilalang ang mag-aabot ng susi sa kuya ko? waaaaaah
• Yung finals next week nitong 3-on-3 basketball game? Yung badminton intercolor? Sorry, teammates =(
• Yung plan namin ni Bex to go to Purple Oven (supplier ng pastries ng Starbucks). Arghhhh
• Yung dinner MNO? My Tuesday Badminton? My Wednesday gym? My Thursday movie date (kung sino man ang mahatak ko)? My Friday Gym? Yung dinner ko on Friday? Yung Babyface concert ko sa Saturday? Yung lakad ko pa after the concert? Naku, yung Davao trip? Si Beyonce??? (OA na to)
• The mere fact that this happened, ang dami nang tao ang magagambala ko. Nakakahiya! HASSLE talaga!

One by one, Hazel, Becky, Reena and Carms arrived. When they found out what happened to me, they all wanted to help. May, meanwhile, explained that it’s up to me if I wanted to go to Medical City to have my foot x-rayed, which was highly recommended. I said yes, just to be sure.

So, Hazel and Becky volunteered to get my things from my workstation and come with me to Medical City (masaya ang mga bruha dahil sasakay sila ng ambulance). Reena suggested that when Howard arrives, they will get my car and drive to Medical City to get us and drive me home. I agreed, so Reena went back to her workstation to fix her things.

After a while, Hazel and Becky came back and I was able to change to dry clothes. By this time I was saying yes to everything (adding to the confusion). Finally, May suggested to just ask my Kuya to get the car from the office, go to Medical City and pick me up from there. So I requested Jake if she could get my car out of the basement (pumayag naman kahit hindi alam kung saan sa basement ako nakapark hehe). Carms volunteered to keep the key and to hand over to my Kuya when he arrives (eventually, the key keeper duty was transferred to Reena as Carms had to leave early and meet Papa Melo).

So, the trip to Medical City was a short one (no traffic e). My foot was x-rayed by Jed (XXX) and Dra. Santos (the ER doctor) explained that based on the initial x-ray reading, there’s “no fracture or dislocation.” Just an ankle sprain. My foot has to be bandaged: snug but not tight…must be elevated…ice compress for 48 hours…to watch out for severe pain and swelling…and minimum weight bearing on the leg. After 2 hours in the hospital, umuwi na kami.

Yon. Yon nangyari sa akin last Friday.


Afterthought:
Is this God's way of telling me to slow things down? not to sweat the small stuff? to relax? to trust Him? to have more faith in Him? to be more patient? not to take things for granted? umuwi ng maaga?

I realized I have a lot of friends who care (kahit ang lakas nilang mang-asar habang wala akong kalaban laban na nakataas ang paa ko nung friday, at sermonan ako na wag pasaway at wag muna maglakwatsa)...

I have a family na talagang maaasahan.

I am very thankful to all my friends who texted, at nangamusta the whole weekend, to those who texted na hindi ako dapat mawala sa mga scheduled lakad the next week, mga bumisita nung pumasok na ako, mga nag email and lalo na to my friends (from HS and HB) na tinext ko dahil I had to cancel yung mga lakad namen =( Thank you for understanding. Di bale babawi ako.

When I got my x-ray plate, I texted a friend and told her "ang laki ng mga buto ko." She texted back saying, "Just feel blessed at least may buto ka, no matter how big or small, buto pa rin yan...hahahahaha."