Usog

Tifa’s not feeling well for the past few days, but I’m just wondering why her temperature usually goes up at night. But she doesn’t seem like she got a fever, she would always play like she’s really well. And she’s waking up at 3am to play with the curtain. Strange, isn’t? Not the usual thing that she do.

Then I decided to take her to the doctor the following day, but my mother told me to bring her first to “albularyo”. Maybe she have this “usog/bati”, I don’t know how to explain this in English. There’s nothing wrong in believing with the albularyo sometimes, so I surrender to my mother’s suggestion.

Then I brought Tifa in an albularyo, Mang Agring. According to him Tifa really have this “usog” by a woman. He put a white paper on Tifa’s forehead, and gave me another paper and told me to burn it and put a little ash on Tifa’s forehead. When we got home, I did what Mang Agring’s instruction. I hope this one will work.