From Dawn Till Dusk

I finally received the new healthcards from our Office’ personnel section the other day. All two of them, one for me being the principal holder and one for Hubby, which I decided to enroll as my dependent the last minute before the deadline of submission. If only I can enroll Nico as a dependent too, but because of the congenital heart disease that he had at birth , he’s not yet qualified for a healthcard even if the hole had closed by itself, until the Medical Investigation Bureau cleared him after five years. And since Nico’s four years old now, I have to wait another year more for him to finally qualify.

This is the first time ever in my entire working life I’ve had a dependent for a healthcard. And unexpectedly, it was Hubby. Hubby used to be enrolled separately through the company he worked for. But since he just availed of an early retirement December last year, perks and benefits he had, including the healthcard, only lasted that month.

It’s been four months since his early retirement, I know. But never it dawned to me so concretely that we are now a single income earning family, with me as the “officially” declared head of the family. Not until I received the healthcards just last Friday. It got me in leaps of paranoia and I can’t help but feel too worried how our finances would go now that Hubby had retired.

Though he’s still connected with the company, but it’s only on a consultancy basis, meaning there would be no more constant stream of income earnings for the family on his part. It was a courageous career move on his part because he wanted to be full time in the little growing business that we have especially now that we’ve taken a step higher by venturing into newspaper dealership in a certain area in north of Metro Manila, aside from the delivery services that we have.

I remember a post by Teacher Julie before, it’s a photo of tunnel which depicted how life was so unpredictable. Continue Reading »