Once on the brink of death, this PR practitioner gets a new lease on life
On October 11, 2020, just a few days after his 49th birthday, PR practitioner Mel Panabi came home to his work desk and noticed something different with his thermos. He’s made it a habit to have a water container stationed at his table so he doesn’t need to reach far when he gets thirsty. That Sunday, however, he took note that the water in the bottle was unusually warm.
By this time, he’s realized someone has poisoned him. He rushed to the nearest bathroom and started “vomiting thick globs of bloody mucus,” he wrote in an essay for the Philippine Star. The helper would often ask for cash advances for various reasons and the couple would always accommodate her requests. When the advances reached the P15,000 mark, however, Mel thought they needed to put the requests to a stop. Like many businesses, the company he was working for was badly hit by the pandemic. This led to the slowdown in the company’s operations and downsizing of manpower.kasi alam naman natin na hindi natin siya sisingilinBut the helper didn’t take the news well.
Mel didn’t get to see the results of his endoscopy. But he recalls his wife telling him his esophagus was completely black, “like charred“I burned my whole esophagus and a portion of my stomach,” Mel tells ANCX. The doctors were recommending he undergo surgery—replace his esophagus with a portion of his colon, which is the standard procedure for such a case. But Mel told them it’s not an option he wanted to take due to the significant downtime it would entail and the exorbitant cost.
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