My Dad Isn't The Best Dad In The World. He's Flawed And We Fight A Lot, And Most Of It Is Because Of

My dad isn't the best dad in the world. He's flawed and we fight a lot, and most of it is because of our financial situation. He's the sole earner of my family but things haven't been looking up for us the past few years. It is one of the reasons why things have gotten as bad as it is now- I should have known that he's hidden his illness for a while now because he doesn't want to add more debt into our family burden just because of a "small cough", especially with the pandemic.

It turns out, he has pneumonia and high glucose blood levels. The pneumonia made a hospital reject giving him first aid care this Monday (22/3) despite his COVID tests showing up negative because they were "incapable of handling a possible COVID patient" due to the fact that my dad's lungs x-rays had signs of infection on it. Keep in mind that he has a high fever and isn't even able to walk or go to the bathroom by himself. They didn't even provide a sufficient IV drip for my dad or a fitting oxygen mask. Monday night we brought him home in hopes of treating his sickness at home because we couldn't afford any other options. At 1am, he woke up from his sleep at home and puked. We brought him to an ER 30 mins away that told us on the phone that they would take a patient with possible pneumonia as long as their COVID-19 test come out negative. When we got there, they just stood there for 20 mins looking at my dad convulsing in the car before rejecting to give him care after I showed him his lung results. I begged them to at least give him first aid but they told me condescendingly that if my dad passed away, they wouldn't be liable. So I went home in tears.

Tuesday 6AM my dad went into septic shock. Money be damned, I called an ambulance from a private hospital that informed me they would take possible patients despite them having COVID or not. I thought that my dad could get the first aid help and then later be admitted to a normal room, but when the medics arrived the first thing they told me was: he has to be put into an ICU.

I have just recently resigned from my job due to high risk of COVID-19 exposure, and both my mom and my sibling are unemployed. We've asked for friends and family for help, but it's just not enough given that we don't have an insurance and an ICU room costs $1k/night. As we're living in a third world country, no medical action will be taken before we given if we don't pay first. We've used up all of our penny to the last drop to keep my dad plugged into the ICU machines and keep him alive to this daym

As of right now, he's fighting as hard as he can to keep his body alive. He's doing his best, and I know I should do my best too. I've ran out of options.

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His whole life, my dad has always teased me that I don't love him as I never express it verbally. You know how us Asians get- I never said it to him because I assumed that he should just know.

Please help me tell my dad that I love him to his face.

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I loved this chapter, and I’m loving this story!! 🥰

Maddie was extremely nervous as her and Doug once again made their way down to Buck’s room. She didn’t know how Evan would react to seeing her. She knew that she had disappointed him when she had not left Hershey with him six years earlier and then when she had cut him off completely, but he didn’t know the complete truth. And, she hoped that he would never have to.

They turned into the room, where Buck was sat up and scrolling on his phone. “Evan,” Maddie breathed.

Evan’s head turned, his blue eyes widening in surprise as they took her in. “Maddie?” He said with uncertainty in his voice, unable to believe that his sister was actually standing in front of him.

I’m dyingggg!! 😭🤣

The entire Chenford fandom ready to see The Rookie tonight

Thank you for this, it really helps!

A rough timeline of the pre-series events from the Begins episodes:

1989:

Athena drops out of law school and joins the LAPD

1991:

Athena’s fiancé Emmett is killed during an attempted robbery

~1993:

Buck and Maddie’s brother Daniel dies of leukemia

2004:

Maddie leaves with Doug for Boston to start nursing school

2005:

Chimney saves the customers from a fire at the karaoke bar and decides to become a firefighter

~2008-2011:

Hen quits her job in pharmaceuticals and becomes a paramedic

2011:

Eddie is on active duty as a field medic in the military

Christopher is born; Eddie is on leave from the army to attend Christopher’s birth

2012:

Buck leaves Hershey

2012-2015:

Buck travels around the US

Buck enlists in the SEALs, later drops out

2014:

Bobby’s family is killed in apartment building fire

~2014-2015:

Bobby moves to LA and becomes captain of the 118

2015:

Eddie reenlists in the army

Eddie’s helicopter is shot down in Afghanistan and he’s discharged

Buck works as a bartender in Peru

~2015:

Shannon leaves Eddie and goes to LA

2017:

Buck completes the LAFD fire academy and starts at the 118

Eddie is living in El Paso with his parents and Christopher, applies to join a number of fire departments

Interesting, I’m glad someone wrote this.

Writing Tip

because I see this everywhere and most people don’t know about it. The hyphen(-), the en-dash(–) and the em-dash(—) are three completely different things with completely different uses. If you write fanfiction, it’s likely that your readers won’t care, but if you want to submit a manuscript for publishing, you need to know the difference. 

The hyphen (-) is the basic symbol you find on your keyboard, and it’s meant to only be used for hyphenated words (well-being, two-thirds). 

The en-dash (–) is a slightly longer dash. It’s usually the width of an uppercase N, hence the name. You can find it by looking through the ‘insert symbol’ option in MS word or many word processors, and it is meant to be used to show a particular distance, or for intervals (May–August, 1900–1916, pages 12–22)

The em-dash (—) is what people most commonly use, but they refer to it as a hyphen. It’s the longest dash, about the size of an uppercase letter M, and you can either find it through the list of symbols in your word processor, or some word processors actually automatically transform two hyphens (–) into an em-dash  (—). It is meant to be used as a break in the sentence, in a place where a comma, semicolon or colon would normally be used or as a break in dialogue. (Her niece—the daughter of her oldest sister—is the one over there.) 

*All three types of dashes are normally meant to be used without any spaces on either side of the dash. 

Haha...yeah, that was rough. I was like are you serious!!

I would have slapped Elliot’s face no offense Olivia Benson but I’m different