Believe it or not

Last May 20, me and my 2 daughters went to the mall to shop some school needs and personal things. And before 7:00pm we’re home.

Around 9:00pm after we have taken our dinner, my youngest was complaining her head was aching and felt dizzy, she’s not feeling well, and then suddenly she vomited.

I gave her cold water because I thought she had eaten bad foods or poison (while we’re shopping she ate a lot again) so to take it out of her system I let her drink cold water to blow everything she had eaten. Then I gave her medicine and I let her sleep.

But around 3:00 am she woke me up and she vomited again. I was so worried already and gave her something to fill her stomach because I know it’s very hard to vomit but nothing comes out. Then she slept again.

Early in the morning she vomited again and she’s so weak already, I was so nervous and in hysteric mode too. But I managed to prepare our tricycle out (a motor bike with side car) to bring her to the hospital, when my neighbor saw me and asked me what happened.

I told her that we just went shopping yesterday and eaten the same foods, so if there’s a poison on the foods why it’s only my youngest was affected.

She said perhaps my youngest was “nabalis” (a sickness supposed to have been gotten from someone who has taken fancy on her or a sort of a slight witchcraft). Perhaps yesterday while we were shopping somebody might admire her secretly.

She told me to try to do something like boiling the dress my daughter worn, or the second option – find a person with black gums and ask her or him to lick the stomach of my child. Yaaaeks, my daughter might be infected with more viruses if I follow the second option, I told her I rather do the first option.

But before doing so I ran and bought more medicine to the drugstore (very near to our house). Then I gave her a bath because she smelled like vinegar already. And I boiled her dress and at the same time I cooked a bone soup for her and after that she fall asleep ‘til lunch time.

I never left her, I stayed by her side worrying so much, I watched her while she’s sleeping. If something bad really happens then I would run her to the hospital. But when she woke up, she smiled and said she’s already “OK”, that seems nothing happened to her. I asked her if she’s very sure, nothings painful, she said absolutely “Yes”.

But still I doubted that something ‘s wrong with my daughter and I want to be sure, in that afternoon still I brought her to the doctor, but the doctor just laughed and said my daughter is very healthy after checking her and taking some lab test.


Wow! … Should I believed the “balis and the boiling ritual” or it’s the medicine and my hot bone soup that cured my baby. I never believe in any superstitious beliefs and stuffs because of my strong faith to God.

But whatever it is, I’ll do anything for the sake of my children.

And thanks GOD, He always helps me.