This is one among my favourite stories It is about a 75 year
man who is a bit of a rascal and fun-loving character. His name is Bernard.
Do share if this story inspires and edify you.
Late last year he came to my centre with a serious spine
injury and operation wounds. While in hospital he fell in the bathroom after
the operation and was lying in the bathroom for 2 hours until his
wife/girlfriend went inside the toilet and found him there. The bathroom
incident happened when his wife/girlfriend, depends with whom you ask, went to
get some stuff from the private hospital stores. Bernard went into the toilet to
pee and he fell, aggravating his post operation wounds.
He tried to reach the bathroom’s call bell, but some smart
Alex tied up the long wire that allows it to dangle all the way to inches off
the floor on the handrail. Making it out of reach for him as he could not stand
he lied on the floor. The wife/girlfriend came back a few minutes later not realizing
that he had fell, thinking that he had been wheeled for more test. After almost
an hour watching the tv she went to the toilet and found him there. Oh, they
actually had to break the toilet door to get in.
On reaching our centre somewhere on the first week of
October 2019, he could hardly walk, sit or talk much and suffering from
excruciating pain.
Physio and acupuncture was arranged for him daily and within
days he could talk, sit and stand. That’s when the fun start and his
wife/girlfriend pusing kepala(shook her head). He started calling all his friends,
all loud rascally, fun-loving professionals who visited him. Follow by bunch
after bunch of gorgeous women although in their 60s and still hot coming to
visit him in droves. Bernard told me
loudly these are my girlfriends. I told him you want to die talking like this.
Bernard happily replied, I have gone through worse.
Within the second week he went to his home one day with his
wife/girlfriend and came back to our centre in a big black Porsche Cayenne, and
he went out every day. And on the 21st day of October I wanted to
kick him out, albeit jokingly, and he said, “Never mind paid one month might as
well enjoy peace and quiet here.”
Here I must point out the the key things that helped in
his recovery.
The first is that Bernard is generally a happy man and was
an active man. He has lots of friends and he was not afraid to be vulnerable in
front of them. He did not ask for pity, In fact, the rascal (in a nice way)
took advantage of his droves of girlfriends with his conditions. Of course, the
other is the support from his wife/girlfriend was tremendous. The wife/girlfriend
was so supportive in spite of her recent trauma of losing her 40 year old
daughter to cancer. The wife/girlfriend teared when she shared this and asked
why her daughter being young did not fight on. But that did not stop her being
a cheerful soul.
Being in the care industry allows me to meet many people
whose life inspired me and helped me to look beyond myself. It helped me to
realise that there is nothing wrong with being sick or need help. Being
vulnerable is not a weakness but a strength that I can draw on.
Oh Bernard left me with a beautiful video saying thank you
to everyone and I do believe in miracles.
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