It has been
more than a week and yet my medical is still ongoing. Halcyon as expected is
increasingly difficult to clear . Right now they keep dumping me will all sorts
of medical pendings that they can think of just to squeeze every bit of money
and I'm furious about this.
first halcyon said that my pendings were just simply going on the treadmill and Getting an Rapid PPD test. To the best of my efforts I did finished those pendings and even borrowed money from my younger sister, confident that after I had settled this , there will be no more follow ups after - just like what happened two years ago during my first encounter with halcyon.
However after clearing those test ., I manage to log on to the halcyon website to check my records and found out to my horror that I had another two more pending. One pending tells that I had to sign up for some sort of paper of "Pre-Hypertension" and the other says that I had to get some clearance from a pulmonologist from "halcyon" (which I suspect will be charging me with another yet again expensive fee). Whatever the case , Halcyon Marine Healthcare Systems is not making my medical exams any easier and their getting bolder than ever before in ripping off peoples wallets.
For now i had to ride along on these setbacks and see how this medical exam will conclude if its "fit" or "unfit" . In the mean time I have to ask help again on my sister about this and it add more financial burden to her.
first halcyon said that my pendings were just simply going on the treadmill and Getting an Rapid PPD test. To the best of my efforts I did finished those pendings and even borrowed money from my younger sister, confident that after I had settled this , there will be no more follow ups after - just like what happened two years ago during my first encounter with halcyon.
However after clearing those test ., I manage to log on to the halcyon website to check my records and found out to my horror that I had another two more pending. One pending tells that I had to sign up for some sort of paper of "Pre-Hypertension" and the other says that I had to get some clearance from a pulmonologist from "halcyon" (which I suspect will be charging me with another yet again expensive fee). Whatever the case , Halcyon Marine Healthcare Systems is not making my medical exams any easier and their getting bolder than ever before in ripping off peoples wallets.
For now i had to ride along on these setbacks and see how this medical exam will conclude if its "fit" or "unfit" . In the mean time I have to ask help again on my sister about this and it add more financial burden to her.
OPT - 100
PHP
Dental
appointment - 50 PHP
Threadmill - 1650 PHP ( Have to
sign a document of pre hypertension)
Rapid PPD - 450 PHP (have to get a medical clearance on
HMHS)
In other news
Lately while I'm still waiting for help from my sister., I did some routine check on my equipment and see if I could as much as reduce the weight of my check in luggage and fit it in a very small back pack that my sister bought for me on my birthday. As of the moment early trials proved to be successful in cramming all those equipment on the new tactical bag, and the only challenge for me will be the electrical cords. My target goal is that my back pack should have less than 10 kilogram weight on my back pack., anywhere beyond 10 kilograms will be problematic for me in an emergency.
By the way
the proposed new backpack that I will use on my new shipboard assignment will
be a "military type" of back pack with molle attachments. In plain
speaking it's more like a Transformer type of back pack and can have all sorts
of attachments .
THINGS TO PONDER
Despite
doubts and skepticism on my medical result in halcyon., I had been thinking
about the possibility that my health might be failing in the years that will
come. The thing that bothers me was the recent medical pending that I had
currently about my ECG result.
Apparently it says that I had some sort of blockage on my heart arteries.,
(well based on halcyons dubious medical result). I had been thinking that if
there is a possibility that this might be true - then it's very much and sure that
my time as a sailor is already near its end (or the beginning of its end),
career wise and biologically wise that is.
Career wise
in the sense that I'm already reaching the peak (and possibly the start of my
decline) in my career and knowing that being a sailor in the Philippines is not
the most stable job - Its only logical
to assume that I might already be on the edge of early retirement.
Biological wise ., I'm already in my middle age in an average human lifespan and at this time - it's in the normal lifecycle that some health problems will arise on this stage.
Now the question to me is "what am I going to do about this ?" (assuming its true)
Apparently
my first logical action would be going back to the call center environment.,
after all that working industry has been a haven for workers who are considered
to be Physically Unfit on normal . It's probably the remaining option for me in
case the maritime industry decides that I'm no longer needed.
However as
I said earlier the medical results in Halcyon Marine Healthcare Systems is
somewhat dubious ., two years earlier I first encounter halcyon and it was the
same problems., After that I went to three different medical clinics and they
never hinted that I had these problems and now I'm back again on this same
crappy clinic., I am again having problems.
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| Proposed backpack id use on my next ship |
