On Thursday night my younger sister called me. Actually my 1 year 10 months old nephew was having some health related issues for which their consulting Pediatrician had advised him an MRI examination... Most probably he is having some minor problems, but thinking about the differential diagnosis (probable various conditions/diseases that may result in the said health related problems) and about all the possible consequences, they had become somewhat tense. My sister is also a doctor, but invariably in most of the cases a mother is just a mother to a child, her professional knowledge doesn't work much. Anyway even if it could be a minor surgery, there is every possibility that he might have to undergo one in not too distant future.. I am almost sure that it would be a 'very' minor surgery, but he is not even 2 years old.. Being so young, he would have to undergo the operation under general anaesthesia, i.e. he would be kept unconscious by anaesthetic medications during the procedure...
These days the medical field has developed a lot and provided everything remains systematic and technically correct, he won't have any untoward effect from this simple operation... Yet an operation is an operation...
So on Friday, after I attended my duties at my workplace and then after I finished my evening chamber, I went to my sister's place... We had to discuss about the further treatment protocol...
Till I was at my clinics, I was busy with my patients and to be true I didn't feel much for my nephew... But as I was on my way to meet him, unknowingly I became somewhat emotional... I know, he has a minor problem and soon he would be absolutely fine, yet I could not resist myself and went to a shop and bought a teddy bear for him. Usually I take one or two small Cadbury chocolates for him and sometimes even I meet him without any gift... But that day at that moment I felt like a chocolate is too less for him and a teddy would be something better... By doing such, I was actually trying to see him even more happier...
So after paying for the same I once again started my car and headed towards my nephew's place... Then all of a sudden one agonizing feeling disturbed me from the core of my heart....
When I was doing my internship in GMCH specially in Pediatrics department and later during my life as a junior resident in the Dept. of Pediatrics in Tripura Medical College, I met quite a number of financially poor parents.. Quite often some of them asked me naming some of the expensive foods, whether they can provide those to their ailing kids... Sometimes I allowed, sometimes I denied owing to the kid's health condition... Sometimes I even answered roughly, "These expensive things are unnecessary for now... Rather spend your money on the medications prescribed and on a healthy diet!!!" What even if I answered like that keeping in view of their financial status, that they might face short of money to buy essential medications once they spend on those expensive products, yet I feel sorry for them today....
On routine basis their monthly income doesn't permit them to provide fruits and other expensive nutritious diets to their kids. But once they fall ill, all parents become even more concerned... They try to provide them the happiness they desire, what if it causes a hole in their pockets... Simply they try to make their kids even more happier during their illness like I was trying the same with my nephew...
Once I reached my destination, my nephew came running to me with the cutest smile on his face calling me "Mama.. Mama"...
I smiled at him, called him "Ghotu..", lifted him up and kissed his both cheeks with the utmost affection...
Later after I had my tea, when I described my aforementioned feelings to my younger sister, she replied,
"You know Baba, your these feelings will increase even more once you become a father!!!!"
I was just speechless.... Thus by this update, I want to say sorry to all those parents whose emotions I somehow failed to understand!!!
These days the medical field has developed a lot and provided everything remains systematic and technically correct, he won't have any untoward effect from this simple operation... Yet an operation is an operation...
So on Friday, after I attended my duties at my workplace and then after I finished my evening chamber, I went to my sister's place... We had to discuss about the further treatment protocol...
Till I was at my clinics, I was busy with my patients and to be true I didn't feel much for my nephew... But as I was on my way to meet him, unknowingly I became somewhat emotional... I know, he has a minor problem and soon he would be absolutely fine, yet I could not resist myself and went to a shop and bought a teddy bear for him. Usually I take one or two small Cadbury chocolates for him and sometimes even I meet him without any gift... But that day at that moment I felt like a chocolate is too less for him and a teddy would be something better... By doing such, I was actually trying to see him even more happier...
So after paying for the same I once again started my car and headed towards my nephew's place... Then all of a sudden one agonizing feeling disturbed me from the core of my heart....
When I was doing my internship in GMCH specially in Pediatrics department and later during my life as a junior resident in the Dept. of Pediatrics in Tripura Medical College, I met quite a number of financially poor parents.. Quite often some of them asked me naming some of the expensive foods, whether they can provide those to their ailing kids... Sometimes I allowed, sometimes I denied owing to the kid's health condition... Sometimes I even answered roughly, "These expensive things are unnecessary for now... Rather spend your money on the medications prescribed and on a healthy diet!!!" What even if I answered like that keeping in view of their financial status, that they might face short of money to buy essential medications once they spend on those expensive products, yet I feel sorry for them today....
On routine basis their monthly income doesn't permit them to provide fruits and other expensive nutritious diets to their kids. But once they fall ill, all parents become even more concerned... They try to provide them the happiness they desire, what if it causes a hole in their pockets... Simply they try to make their kids even more happier during their illness like I was trying the same with my nephew...
Once I reached my destination, my nephew came running to me with the cutest smile on his face calling me "Mama.. Mama"...
I smiled at him, called him "Ghotu..", lifted him up and kissed his both cheeks with the utmost affection...
Later after I had my tea, when I described my aforementioned feelings to my younger sister, she replied,
"You know Baba, your these feelings will increase even more once you become a father!!!!"
I was just speechless.... Thus by this update, I want to say sorry to all those parents whose emotions I somehow failed to understand!!!
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