I ada sorang patient Maria Mariammah (pinjam kosa kata Esah) ni uols. Nak dijadikan cerita, one day patient ni datang for emergecy antenatal check up on kerusi roda with muka lebam, kaki tangan berbalut.
Hasil laporan makcik mulut murai yang kerja sebagai receptionist tu, patient ni jatuh tangga katanya. It is not just that tau. Patient ni overweight. Overweight tu satu hal lah. She also diabetic dan darah tinggi. Lengkap koleksi dia.
Menurut cerita makcik mulut murai tu, patient yang tengah mengandung 28 minggu ni tengah turun tangga sambil dukung anak lelaki dia yang baru berumur setahun. Entah macam mana takdak ribut takdak petir, that patient terasa kepala dia berpusing-pusing semacam, maka jatuh la dia tergolek-golek kat tangga tu, manakala anak lelaki dia yang dia tengah dukung tu tercampak keluar dari tingkap, lalu meninggal ditempat kejadian.
Don't ask me macam mana budak tu boleh tercampak. I can't imagine that either. How the hell that boy boleh tercampak through the window is beyond me. Kesian. She was really upset about it. Sekejap sekejap menangis. Sekejap sekejap menangis.
She was not the only unfortunate cases that I had. Last week alone, ada dekat 10 miscarriages and some of them were from the private practice. Ye lah uols, as I mentioned before (did I?), I tengah gigih kerja siang malam with part time kat private clinic. Kumpul duit nak kawin gituh ahahahaha. Diam kau pondan Dublin! *ops~
Yang kat private clinic ni lagi la tragic. Most patients datang sini as soon as they found out that they are pregnant. Sebab kalau buat kat NHS nak kena tunggu masuk 12 weeks baru scan. So obviously la kena tunggu lama.
So I have one very excited couple yang tak sabar nak tengok baby diorang for the first time. The problem with me, when I get an excited patient, I akan join sekaki menjadi excited. And this couple, they are very well-educated. Ni adalah set set yang jenis know what to expect when you are expected. So diorang tahu how the embryo will looks like on ultrasound. When I put the probe on her tummy, she quickly say, 'Yes that is an embryo. I can see it!!'. Well, she is not wrong. There is an embryo. It just that the embryo have no heart beat. When the embryo measurement correspond with 8 weeks, the heart should be beating. But I see no heart beating and I have to break the bad news. So, in split second, everything changed.
She was very positive about it. I said I am sorry and she said it is not even my fault. She said it just bad luck and it is better to find out now than later. Her positiveness make me feel really sad.
So yeah, when it comes to takdir ni, sapa la kita nak mempersoalkan ketentuanNya kan? Tapi at the same time, kita tak boleh la nak serah pada takdir je uols. Kalau boleh ikhtiar, kita ikhtiar. Kalau boleh elak, kita elak. Kalau dah sendiri cari penyakit, nak kata takdir lagi ke?
So, to all my friends, please look after yourself ye.
PS: To Zoe, I am sorry for your lost.





