Dear SV Unlimited site visitors:
I know the post I have made in the website came as a big shock to everyone, and I wish I won't have to make this announcement. I'm leaving the community really soon. This hiatus I mentioned in the Oct. 8, 2005 update in here really means leaving the sv community (and the entire online world) for now. My offline life really isn't as great as my online life. My family is currently facing a financial problem.
This has been going on for a couple of months now. You see, my family owns a bakery to earn a living and right now, the bakery isn't doing well. Sales have gone down and my family even have barely enough money to buy the necessary ingredients (flour, sugar, gas, etc.) and the sale of the delivery of breads have gone down. Oftentimes my Dad came home from delivering breads many of which are unsold. To make things worse,
my Dad got sick. Last July, he got a fever but he ignored it and still was working for the bakery. My Mom told him to take a rest and have his fever cured, but he refused. In my Dad's birthday last August 28, my Dad called me and my brother to come home to Bohol. So we did. That time, I was having my midterm exams so I arrived late for his birthday (Sept. 2). My brother have come home, and with me around, it became like
a family reunion for us. When I saw my Dad, I thought he was getting well. I even joked that he is getting fat because his stomach has gotten bigger. This made me think that things will get better for me and my family. My brother is now a cop, the bakery is slowly recovering and most importantly, my Dad's health is okey. But it didn't. Last Sept. 18, my Dad was sent to the hospital in Tagbilaran (the city of Bohol) because
he was complaining that his feet is aching and he can't walk. When he was brought there, the doctor examined him and they found out that he had a high blood sugar-380 (he has diabetes) Because of that, his left feet got swollen and turned black. (Like what happened with my grandmother who died last year) Some tests were also made, and they found out that my Dad's bigger stomach is not normal. It turns out that he has a liver damage.
This was due to his excessive drinking and the doctor had to put a tube in his stomach to get the fluid out. I posted on the site before that I was having my prefinals exam, so I when I found out, I was torn on taking my exams or go to Bohol and visit my father. After all, both things are important to me. Then I learned from my Mom that they decided to ask for a financial support to my brother to pay for the hospital.
My brother really doesn't have any money except for the the tuition fee that he has to give to me. He asked me if he would just send the money to my parents and because I wanted my father to get better, I agreed. I cried my heart out at home and at school on Monday last week and soon, my classmates found out what was happening. I don't have any payment for my prefinals exam, so I decided to go to Bohol last Saturday and visit my father
at the hospital. He looked awful. When I got there, an oxygen was placed on my father and a dextrose. His feet esp. the left was placed with some pillows to move it upwards and the tube connected to his stomach is still there. When I talked to him, you can barely understand what he is saying and you have to come closer to hear it. I took care of him and got back here in Cebu. I received half of the money
as tuition payment from my brother and money for my allowance. Thank goodness my Dad was just released from the hospital last Sept. 28 and is now at the house. I texted my brother asking as to when will I receive the other half of the tuition fee, he have sent it. My brother told me that this will be the last money he will give to me because he doesn't have any more money and that he asked for a loan of 20,000 pesos to pay for the hospital.
He told me to stop schooling next semester and help out in the bakery. As for my computer, my internet connection will be cut off too, but I begged not to for now and wait until the end of the semester to be cut off. My schooling for this semester is until October 22, so when I leave for Bohol no more internet for me and I can't update anymore. I will really miss the online community- sv unlimited, global elucidation, anime tribe and the W.I.T.C.H. community.
I hope this is just a joke or a sob story, but this is true and I'm not lying. I'm so sorry guys I haven't told you about this sooner because I really can't bring myself to say it. I've been plagued with too many problems recently, and I felt that the internet is a way to escape from my problems at least for a while. Whenever I sit in front the computer and whatever mood I feel at the moment-bored, sad, angry, hurt, lonely, etc- I felt each time I logged on in
here or in other site/community, I momentarily forget it. SV Unlimited means a lot to me, that is why it breaks my heart to admit this just when things are doing great in this site and leave soon. I won't be shy to say that I'm absolutely PROUD of handling this not just because I'm a sweet valley fan, but because it is by far the hardest and the most challenging thing I have handled. I love this very much. I have sent an email to Angelina first telling about this to her and at her reply which I read last night,
I cried after reading it. I remembered everything-when I first came to this community with a simple yahoo group and no HTML skills up to the site that it is now. I want to do more, like finally buying a domain for this site, but with this financial problem my family has, there is no way for me to do that. I'm also so ashamed at the people who emailed me and tagged showing their compliments on this site, and as I make this announcement, I'm letting you guys down.
But neither I nor my family wanted this to happen. I hope that things will get better for me and my family for the next few months and hopefully will continue my studies in the next school yr (June 2006) and be able to have this site up again. And when I come back, I hope you guys will still be there. I'm sad to announce that this account here at Hide-away.org (and the domain) will expire in January next year, so unless Sarah (our host) will renew it,
the site will go down. I will do my very best to transfer all files back into Geocities or Freewebs and someday when I get back and reopen this site, I can still use the files. Please do understand. I'm making the most of the remaining days before I leave. I love you guys and I will miss you.
Love,
April
(sv_forever1)