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Often around here you can hear storeis being told by foreigners who have really had it in how they get treated here as guest more often these days.

Just read the local police blotters it tellsa story all by its self.

Let'd face it not all foreigners are doing bad things here. It just seems no matter how much we scratch a Filiino's back here tojust ne be able to help him out, it never seems that appreciated and often enough ends up being looked at as as if just being used to get what they want.

While the foreigner ends up with nothing but the word of trust once said but never being implimented always.

I have an email from a freind Roger who lives here in Tagbilaran and back home in the states he is a  lets just say well off and he enjoys helping people here who really need medical attention.

Here is his most recent email of his last adventure going around Philippines.

'Hi, everybody,
 
When you're traveling around the Philippines, watch out for the infamous bloodsucker cockroach. Not really a cockroach but a small gray colored insect that likes to do you-know-what when you're not looking.
 
I guess I wasn't looking; I had never heard of the little bugger.
 
So last Sunday sometime, while I was still in Danao City, Cebu, one decided to get a taste of yours truly. The next day my left wrist and 4th finger started to swell a little. No big deal. I thought a mosquito or spider bit me. Simple... that would go away fast. But there was no tell-tale bite or sting mark.
 
By Wednesday evening, my left forearm, wrist and hand were swollen like a reddish baloon, hot from inflammation and painful. My filippino friends said I was bitten by a bloodsucker "cockroach." An ob gyne at Gallares Provincial Hospital said the same thing. (Always consult a sex doctor when you want info about bloodsuckers. Haha.)
 
I immediately went to Mercury Drug and bought the antibiotic tablets the pharmacist recommended. Now, after two days, the swelling is gradually decreasing. Enough that I can hold my toothbrush and even type this email. She said it may take a week, so my countdown for cure is next Wednesday evening.
 
Other than this experience, my week in Cebu City and Danao was fun.
 
Sweet 19-year-old Rosalie, a saleslady at Golden Crust bakery in Cebu, now sees well with her one good eye. I met her my pevious visit several weeks ago and noticed how difficult it was for her to pick out my individual leche flan pastries. (My nightime tv snack.) I discovered she was blind in her left eye and couldn't see well with the right. Hard for her to work that way, and maybe harder to find another job.
 
She's a very poor, shy, innocent girl who left her family in Leyte to earn a living. So many families separate here.
 
So I found a low-cost optometrist nearby and promised her eyeglasses when I returned. I think everyone at Golden Crust was skeptical, even though they know me as a regular customer. Who does this for some poor stranger?
 
Last week I took Rosalie for her eye exam and new glasses. The doctor found astigmatism in the "good" eye. I also gave her antibiotic eyedrops and showed her how to use them. Rosalie was so cute when she asked my opinion about the frames. We agreed the blue and red frame was most colorful, patriotic and very sexy. We all laughed... even the doctor and technician! You can imagine how overjoyed she and her sister were that she could see well for the first time in years.
 
Now we text regularly and have become friends. Rosalie shows new joy and self confidence, and looks so cute in her new glasses. My reward. 
 
And how much did this cost "el Cheapo?" Sit down for this. Total cost for the eye exam, new prescription glasses and antibiotic eyedrops: 840 pesos, or about $18.00. My goodness!
 
Well, that's all for now. God bless.
 
Roger."
 
 
 


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