One day, while I was trying to put my nephew who is 4 years old into sleep, he asked me, "mama, when I was very small what did I address you as?". Now the situations is such that a 4 year old kid who has just learnt to articulate a few meaningful sentences, is wondering what he was in his still younger days!!It sounds astonishing when we understand the fact that we humans are never tired of knowing things. Yes, ofcourse am not speaking of syllabus in our days of schooling, the things which we do not get to learn in school seems so fascinating to all of us. Though the kind of feel which bubbles inside us when we learn a thing new to us is indescribable, the satisfaction which we get when we apply that knowledge learnt into practicality and succeed is probably like a blind person imagining how Aishwarya Rai looks like!!! Yes, its true that such a feel cannot be put into words and even if we give it a shape with words, it sounds exaggerated. So its just like hearing a picture or seeing a music. Indescribable!
Such was the situation today wherein I myself am. To share the background for this feel I need to go back a month, when as per our rotational duty postings I was posted to a unit( a unit is a mini branch of a department, say for in our surgery department we have 5 units and each unit gets to do duty on one day a week apart from saturday and sunday). So on duty on Friday, we got a case of RTA( road traffic accident) at around 3:30 pm in the afternoon. I have to clarify one thing that I can disclose only few laymen things in here and can't give out any details which are confidential and come under our medical ethics. So the guy, named X, was run over by a four wheeler vehicle over his chest and upper abdomen. On admission the condition of the guy necessitated that we had to operate on him to give him any glimmer of hope for survival. So explaining the situation to his bystanders we took him to surgery and intra-operative findings too dimmed our hopes that we could see the patient recovering at all.
The operation went very well. Everyone of us will have heard the dialogue in movies that-"operation success, but patient dead", right?? Well before entering this field that dialogue sounded funny to me too that how can that be possible when success and failure go hand in hand? But, its true that sometime operation part will be perfect but the patients' response to that post-operatively during the time of recovery will be very weak and he may succumb to it. So we expected that Mr. X might not recuperate his stress. He was on life support system for 15 days. He was conscious and responding to our commands and recognise us all the treating doctors. He though was recovering very well and certainly stronger than we expected.
So, as per rotation. in the beginning of this month I was posted elsewhere with new patients and new unit. Today evening I went back to my old unit and found this Mr. X lying in the very first bed. It took me some time to recognise him as he had lost weight and in fact he did recognise me and got up and spoke to me. His words were -" ಸರ್, ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೀರಾ ಈಗ? ಬಹಳ ದಿನದಿಂದ ಕಾಣಿಸಲೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಬಾಳ ಚನ್ನಾಗಿ ನೋಡ್ ಕೊಂಡಿ ಜೀವ ಉಳ್ಸಿದ್ರಿ ಸಾರ್ ನೀವೆಲ್ಲ..." and all through his words his hands were folded in front of his chest!!
WOW. How could have I felt then? No words! To be honest, these are the moments that make us feel worth of being a doctor. My entire unit-mates will never forget this Mr. X.
I could have probably given a nice finishing to this article, but as I said no more words..........just......WOW............. Its like a blind guy imaging Aishwarya Rai in his vision. Only he can enjoy it, outsiders can just see that smile on his face:-)
The operation went very well. Everyone of us will have heard the dialogue in movies that-"operation success, but patient dead", right?? Well before entering this field that dialogue sounded funny to me too that how can that be possible when success and failure go hand in hand? But, its true that sometime operation part will be perfect but the patients' response to that post-operatively during the time of recovery will be very weak and he may succumb to it. So we expected that Mr. X might not recuperate his stress. He was on life support system for 15 days. He was conscious and responding to our commands and recognise us all the treating doctors. He though was recovering very well and certainly stronger than we expected.
So, as per rotation. in the beginning of this month I was posted elsewhere with new patients and new unit. Today evening I went back to my old unit and found this Mr. X lying in the very first bed. It took me some time to recognise him as he had lost weight and in fact he did recognise me and got up and spoke to me. His words were -" ಸರ್, ಎಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೀರಾ ಈಗ? ಬಹಳ ದಿನದಿಂದ ಕಾಣಿಸಲೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಬಾಳ ಚನ್ನಾಗಿ ನೋಡ್ ಕೊಂಡಿ ಜೀವ ಉಳ್ಸಿದ್ರಿ ಸಾರ್ ನೀವೆಲ್ಲ..." and all through his words his hands were folded in front of his chest!!
WOW. How could have I felt then? No words! To be honest, these are the moments that make us feel worth of being a doctor. My entire unit-mates will never forget this Mr. X.
I could have probably given a nice finishing to this article, but as I said no more words..........just......WOW............. Its like a blind guy imaging Aishwarya Rai in his vision. Only he can enjoy it, outsiders can just see that smile on his face:-)
