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had a miscommunication prob with weez this morning...i was waiting for her near the road and she was waiting for me at the carpark:) hahha:) didn't receive her sms...ah wellz:)
surprisingly, there were actually people in school:D didn't want to go to the med talk this morning...saw hanjie and he said there's econs tutorial during the pw period...so, i had my heart set upon going for econs. was walking up the stairs when i saw peilee, huiling and libing heading for the direction of the performance theatre:) well. u see. i figured if the guai-est people are going for the med talk, i might as well tag along:D *grInz*
turns out to be a very good choice:D they got the ceo of dunno wat and the vice dean of nuh? (can't remember) to talk to us...and it wasn't boring at all:D quite personal...and they actually gave the medical field and relatively human side and as they shared about the field itself, it did kinda inspire us in the performance theatre:) talked a lot about the heart...and can really see that they chose this profession fully to serve:) one of the stories shared was actually quite touching:) shall share it here.
anyway, this guy right, he was wondering between sustaining this woman with terminal stage liver cancer with fluids and what-nots and possibly let the woman live for a few more days or just let nature take its course...when he went to see the patient, he actually saw tears in her eyes even when she's semiconscious..comatose...then he went to ask the sister why she's so sad...and the sister said that the woman's son actually quarreled with the woman before he left for england just a few days ago (refused to talk to her after that)...and her other son, who is in sec 4, didn't even bother to visit her in the hospital. so she's quite sad about it...i mean like, imagine, you'll probably die in a few days' time, and your husband had already gone before you, yet your sons refuse to come and visit u..u'll feel abandoned, right?
the doctor, seeing the case, couldn't really take it...so he went to call the son who is in england, said to him 'your mother is dying. you have to fly back and talk to her right away' and he got the sister to call the sec 4 guy. when the sec 4 son came, he asked him to talk to his mum, hold her hand...that kinda stuff:) 'cos the doctor says that even when the person no longer responds, the senses sometimes lasts longer...when the england guy came, the doctor told him the same thing:) the doctor, on his part, will try to keep the patient alive:)
surprisingly, the mother got out of coma after 2 days (most prob 'cos now there's the will to live on) and continued living for another 6 months. should the doctor had given up on her, she would have died on that day or the day after...yet, because the doctor went beyond his call of duty, he allowed the family to be reconciled once more and for the woman to have 6 more months with her sons:)
anyway, the talk emphasized a lot on compassion for others:) was a very nice talk:D glad i didn't miss it afterall:)