In this years’ Valentines Day I saw a love that can be far noble and divine than any other kind of love. Valentines day is not only a time to celebrate that romantic love but more importantly it is a time to take a look and to notice the love that is more real but is often taken for granted.
In the night of February 14 we went to a hospital in Las Pinas to visit Gino. Gino is the nephew of my brother’s wife. It was heartbreaking to see him in his hospital bed. I didn’t manage to say a word the entire time that I was there. I was silent the whole time but inside of me I feel like crying not only for feeling sorry but more out of anger.
Gino has been in the hospital for months already. Gino met an accident. He was run over by a truck. He had a cranium operation. A week after his first operation the doctor told his family to take him home. Then he had complications. His skull has to be opened again. He is comatose. The bill surges to almost 2 million pesos.
He looks very different from what I can remember of him in the few times that I have seen him. He was tall and robust and is about the same age as mine.
His family amidst the enormity of the problem in front of them is still holding on and are doing their best to stay strong. They are doing everything to cling to Gino’s life.
