It is okay not to feel yourself and to forget about who you are. It is easy to lose yourself and easy to forget about your worth.
Honestly, no one will ever be there to make you feel your worth. But have you ever thought, in this daily life, your existence does matter?
By giving a helping hand, by passing a smile or by lending an ear to someone, to listen to their problems, by speaking a good sentence can make someone’s day
If you are good, good will come to you. And if you have been there in the hour of need you will see eventually good things coming to you.
Here are a very rare heart touching true life stories which I have encountered.
I was on-call one summer with a resident, and I was only on call intern in the Neurology ward. When my call started there was a patient who was referred from psychiatry ward for neurological evaluation.
The patient presented with bilateral weakness in limbs for 6 months associated with headache which increased with time for the past 6 months. She also had progressive weakness and low mood and was being evaluated for chronic depression. On arrival in our ward, the patient suddenly lost consciousness while on stretcher.
At first, we checked her vitals and as per neurology guidelines we went CT scan. Being the only intern on call I was busy with other patients managing ward and the intensive care unit as well.
Around 5 pm the patient returned with her CT done, and in 15 mins the report came on the system.
To our shock, when we checked the report, it was a meningioma involving the left lobe measuring 7’7cm.
It was a big tumor and the patient was just 29-year-old.
No one could have guessed what this patient might turn up to be diagnosed with when she initially presented with common symptoms.
Now the next step was to consult neurosurgery, and getting there with all the relevant history and examination and laboratory investigations. The team decided to immediately take the patient for surgery and prior to that a contrast CT was also required.
At midnight, I went with the patient and got her CT contrast done. She was on list the very next morning for her surgery at 7am and I received a call from the team saying she should be in theatre soon. I went with a ward boy, handed the patient over and was getting to start my post call work at the ward.
I came to know that the patient was fine after getting her surgery done and was discharged. Then a month later, it was a busy afternoon and I was busy with my ward chores when I saw a lady coming to me and asking for some help. While answering her query, I realized that it was the same patient who had Meningioma.
Seriously, I couldn’t believe my eyes that staying awake for one patient for one night and getting her evaluation done on time would end her being walking around and completely fine.
Ah! a feeling which cannot be even expressed in words.
Once it was a winter morning, there was a narrow lane with no directions and I saw a helpless old couple who didn’t know the way to the dental outpatient department. I stood by them for a while and by helping them finding the way to the outpatient department it gave me a feeling of great satisfaction that how I lead the way to that place. I never saw them again and maybe I will never see them. But by helping them it truly gave me a feeling of serving a great purpose.
There was once a happy man who was on list for rectal surgery for Carcinoma rectum in the surgery ward. The patient was planned for epidural anesthesia for pain management before his surgery. So as to prevent postoperative pain, I went all alone with the patient and his wife around 1 am to get the Epidural Anesthesia. The epidural procedure was planned at a distant Operating room so we had to take a walk. I went to the operating room waiting for it to get free. I got the opportunity to feel that helping someone who is your patient might take you a long way. I returned around 3am in the morning to the ward, tired and exhausted but feeling contended that the duty assigned to me and the profession I am in enables me to touch someone’s life every day and yet to be on the other side, that is to be on the helping side.
As I pen down these experiences I would like to share that these are the moments I felt not only as a doctor but also that there is a huge capability in humans to help anyone. If you are sincere with your work, the universe sends everything back to you in a mysterious way that no one knows.
Have you ever wondered why you are so blessed? May be because in this hustling bustling life you have done some act of kindness that will blow your life and blossom you in a way that you could not have even imagined.
Writing and sharing all these stories are just a glimpse of how a little act of kindness or a little gesture can make someone’s life and make you a hero in someone life. And if you analyze this for a minute, you will feel your existence does matter.
That no matter how bad things have gone there is a way out for you. If you have been there in the hour of need for someone, even if you are not related to them but yet humanity exists. So yes, your existence to touch someone’s life truly matters.
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