There were times when my family barely had two pesos in our pockets. My parents had seven children. Their earnings were barely enough for all of us. Those were very hard times but we didn’t stop dreaming. With a lot of sacrifice I finished med school in Pampanga. That still wasn’t enough. I took advantage of working in the US as a nurse which enabled me to earn more money than working as a doctor in the Philippines.
There was stigma at that time about doctors giving up their degrees in the Philippines and settling to be nurses abroad. But that didn’t stop me from trying to achieve my dreams. Again, with a lot of sacrifice I was able to work as a nurse at a dialysis clinic. Each da…
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