I think you're talking about the same thing, T2Green & PorpolHaze.  That was a celebrated case.  It was all over the media, if I remember correctly.  The blind one comes out on talk shows every now and then--when the topic is sudden change in lifestyle or forgiveness or inspiration.  Makes you wonder how one forgives something like that.  Of course, the perp was suffering from an imbalance in her brain chemistry at the time of the attack but still.....

Yup, the mom I was referring to in my last blog is aware that she is not alone.  This is more common than we care to admit & it appears to have reached epidemic proportions.  What is it--the stress we have to deal with?  Something altering our genes?  Scary!  2 of my 3 lunch guests today have the same problem.  (It was a "Rehab Moms" lunch.  We get together every so often to catch up on each other's lives & on our children's progress.)  These women's sons have what we call a double diagnosis, in rehab terms.  Aside from having become addicted to shabu &/or alcohol, they also have some imbalance in their brain chemistry.  In one case, the imbalance is genetic.  3 out of
4 siblings have it.  E, sinamahan pa ng toma & shabs.  The son has been in & out of rehab for the past 10 years.  In the other case, we're not sure if the imbalance was there to begin with, or if it
developed because of his having messed with substances.  It is a sad state of affairs.  These guys are in their 30's, come from good families, ought to have the world at their feet.....  Sad.  My nephew, the son of Vic, has the exact same thing.  He messed with shabs in his late teens.  When Vic was dying, and immediately after, this boy fell into a depression.  I don't know if he was still drugging during his bout with depression.  He became uncommunicative, unkempt, unmotivated.  A few years later, they discovered a tumor in his brain.  The doctors gamma-rayed it to smithereens but there was very little improvement.  We'll never know if the tumor was there before or after the drugs.  Now, he's in rehab in Bicol, about to complete his program.  Looks like he's getting his act together and wants to give back by working in the facility.  I'm encouraging Evelyn to allow him to continue with his mission.  Sure, he won't be making shit in terms of income, but aside from being in
a supervised environment, he derives a lot of satisfaction from helping others who are the way he was before.  He's set for life financially anyway & it's a noble task he has embarked on.  At the end of the day, money doesn't really count for too much, does it, especially if he'll blow it all on drugs anyway?

Save the coins, T2Green.  They're worth just a little over their face value today but in the future, they'll be worth something; maybe not to you but to whoever you will leave them to.  They don't spoil anyway so what have you got to lose?

RedLobster, why you no blog?  You were out yesterday so I'm assuming you're okay already.  Busy?  Tamad?   na!

You picked up a bug, too, T2Green?  There must be some virus doing the rounds.

That's a good idea, including Oranswit in our paseo plans.  Baka nga makuha sa kulit.  T2Green is right, Oranswit.  You are more than welcome.

It's final then:  T2Green's dinner treat at Vivere on the 30th.  I suggest doing LB another day, though.  The traffic will probably be hellish because of the All Saints' Day exodus to the provinces.  I think the 31st has been declared a holiday in government offices.  How about Monday, the 27th, for Los Banos?  Let me know what you think.

I got my gown this evening, girls.  Aside from being different from everything else that's in the stores, it was given to me at a discount.  YEHEY!!!