March 2020 Under the Shadow of COVID-19

March is Mom's birth month. Most pensioners' system update or validate their records for each member during the month of birth. Usually it involves just showing up in their offices. This is a trying time for everyone more so to our senior citizens. So I am trying to work out a way my mom can do hers through Skype perhaps. Or maybe I can just mail the necessary documents and other requirements.

I don't know if I can run or walk outside just for its own sake. I mean I can make food and medicine runs. But I want to exercise somehow.

It is also my birth month. What's my birthday wish? I wish that we all survive this pandemic. I wish you and your family health.

The news updates are starting their mortality count in the country. I'm glad they include the number of those who contracted the virus and are now testing negative. Some barangays in Quezon City are becoming hot zones. Their unknowns are becoming real, real enough. It is going to get worse.

I have a daily routine now with the thermometer. I've been registering my temperature at 36 Celsius. Mom's average is 35.5 Celsius. We are feeling fine.

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