Sunday, July 8, 2007

Fun in the Philippines

We enjoyed each other's company for about six weeks until I could not handle the constant get me pregnant and marry me conversations. I was getting it from all sides, Mother, aunts and all the women in the family. The ending to all this for me was when she said, "after we got back to the states that I had to initiate the paper work to bring her family to the United States." This was at least 30 people. Now I am an easy going, accommodating guy, but suddenly I saw myself with a full house of her relatives for the rest of time. I found out if you sponsor a family member, you have to guarantee them a place to live for a minimum of six months and this was not what I wanted for myself, and to top it off, with the heat getting to me and with the brown outs and the air conditioning shutting off I was getting sick. To explain, when you have lost most of your sweat glands you become susceptible to overheating. I had lost 65% of my sweat glands, because of 3rd degree burns and in those days, I had a horrible time in hot weather. Our bodies expel heat through our sweat glands and if you are without the means to dissipate your internal heat, you will have a major problem.

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