On May 08 2012 16:52 Firereaver wrote: Thats sad? huh???? Heart block while serious and requiring pacing isnt sad... Not like the 21 yr olf withviral meningitis who dies 2 days after her wedding Or the 28 yr old who goes into ricketssial sepsis and has permanent renal and hepatic failiure along with a left sided stroke to boot! Or.... one of the umpteen things you see on a daily basis over here... Come to India(or any 3rd world country) if you wanna see where the truth really lies.
Sad stories occur in any country my friend.
Within the last week, a two year old with viral meningitis (had to watch the doctor do a lumbar puncture on the poor baby.) Fatal car accident involving a young teenager. 27yo male with a heart attack.
India, USA, Canada, Iraq, whatever... shit happens in every country.
Hmmm... well thats wat they all say till they actually come and see for themselves... Had a bunch of Harvard Final year med students 3 mongths ago who I had to take on rounds along with me... By the end of just 1 day they all came to me and asked me how me or any of my colleagues maintained our sanity. Total abject despair is not an equitably distributed commodity, im sorry to say. Just yesterday a bunch of Kings College, London, students whom i took for rounds have decided to cancel their planned 6 month vacation so that they can stick around and comprehend the extent of work and burden of health care there is over here. So while i wont dispute the fact that sad stories occur everywhere... I do want to re-iterate they occur a lot more in the developing countries and third world than in the first world. + Show Spoiler +
Sorry if i came across as condescending in my initial post. Have had a looong day...
Nobody argued that your situation was the same, people are arguing because you said this situation wasn't sad. What you must see is devastating but saying something can't be sad because something much more horrible is happening in another country is incorrect. Thank you for what you do, and I'm glad you are capable of maintaining your sanity but a family watching their grandmother die in front of them is still a sad situation.
Working on ambulances (I think that in your country you can translate my job as ìparamedic', even if it's slightly different) I can understand that feeling... sometimes you have to carry a patient that talks with you until you take him inside just to discover two hours later that he has died.
And sometimes you are there just as a taxi driver because there's an idiot that wants to be carried downtown but he has not a car and dislikes the bus.
Console yourself by thinking that she was already old and that her family was somehow "prepared" for an eventual passing and that you did all you could: there are people who don't even bother with an EKG when they see that 'everything is fine'.
edit: @Firereaver Shit happens everyday and everywhere but it's still shit. I could write a compilation of all the sad things I've seen in just 5 years of work but personally I believe that suffering is still suffering despite the circumstances of every case. It's never a competition.
Must of been hard for the family to make the decision regarding the pacemaker. Its one thing to suffer from an incurable illness that you know you will die. Its another to know that there is a solution/cure but not choosing it. I believe the latter is much more painful.
On May 08 2012 19:39 Smix wrote: <333 your blogs are amazing as always <3
How is it that you're so cheery, lighthearted and carefree when this blog is about death and suffering? Seriously? I understand TL veterans or mods usually post replies of such nature because they're veterans and can do whatever they want, but seriously man. Not in blogs like this. At least show that you give a damn about the people in the blog.
On May 08 2012 19:39 Smix wrote: <333 your blogs are amazing as always <3
How is it that you're so cheery, lighthearted and carefree when this blog is about death and suffering? Seriously? I understand TL veterans or mods usually post replies of such nature because they're veterans and can do whatever they want, but seriously man. Not in blogs like this. At least show that you give a damn about the people in the blog.
On May 08 2012 16:52 Firereaver wrote: Thats sad? huh???? Heart block while serious and requiring pacing isnt sad... Not like the 21 yr old with viral meningitis who dies 2 days after her wedding Or the 28 yr old who goes into ricketsial sepsis and has permanent renal and hepatic failiure along with a left sided stroke to boot! Or.... one of the umpteen things you see on a daily basis over here... Come to India(or any 3rd world country) if you wanna see where the truth really lies.
???
I'm from a shitty place as well, my city has one of the highest criminal rates in the world. Everytime I walk alone in the night I'm 100% alert because I'm scared of not getting home alive, some weeks ago the POLICE purposedly made routes in which no crime would occur so the crime rates would go higher and they could make their point of: "We aren't paid enough", a lot of people died because of that. But hey, last time I heard people are really happy around this parts. Stop using this kind of brute force argument, and what the fuck about the truth? O,o
On May 08 2012 21:12 Hyde wrote: I knew it was going to be something sad, but I read it anyway because it's Snet's blog.
Exactly. I know exactly what I'm getting into but I read it anyway >_< I also feel like these kind of blogs (real life experiences) help us with a reality check in the midst of all the e-drama we drench ourselves with.
On May 08 2012 16:52 Firereaver wrote: Thats sad? huh???? Heart block while serious and requiring pacing isnt sad... Not like the 21 yr old with viral meningitis who dies 2 days after her wedding Or the 28 yr old who goes into ricketsial sepsis and has permanent renal and hepatic failiure along with a left sided stroke to boot! Or.... one of the umpteen things you see on a daily basis over here... Come to India(or any 3rd world country) if you wanna see where the truth really lies.
its not a competition, bro. Being from one country doesn't make you love somebody more or less than in a different country
EPT
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