Last week marked my last chapter of my 2nd decade of life. I am not officially paving my way to the 3rd decade and honestly, I see a pleasant road in front of me.
Life have truly been a relatively good road so far. Although I have encountered plenty of roadblocks, bumps and accidents in life, it has all borne great significance in enhancing my perspective in life.
Anyways, on a different matter, for the first time this year I verbally reprimanded my clients for negligence. I have not been that pissed off at people that actually pay me money for a long long time. Of course when they pay you for your services, its a general consensus that you leave them happy. However this was not the case today.
Anyways, here's what happened.
A patient came in accompanied by his son. Apparently the father just had a collapse yesterday night and was hospitalized for the day due to hypoglycemia (too little sugar in the blood). At a look at his records, this patient came to me about 3 month back complaining of poor vision, however I referred him on to the eye specialist since he was suffering from diabetic retinopathy (to put it simply, inside his eyes were bleeding).
His vision had deteriorated severely (one eye blind) since then due to his diabetic condition. He told me that he was initially booked to see an eye specialist at University Hospital 2 month back but his children refused to sent him there since they were all busy with work. I was fuming when I heard about it since I specifically told them that if treatment were not done, his eyes could be severely jeopardized.
To cut it short, I gave the son 20 minutes worth of lecture on how to become a filial son and that he should be setting his priorities straight.
The only petty excuse that he gave me was, "I didn't know it was that bad".
Bloody hell, if I ever had a son like that, I would have chopped him to little tiny pieces and fed to the fishes.
Moral of the story, do not take your parents for granted or regret it for the rest of your life when its too late.
4 comments:
gosh, the children are really that ignorant!!! wat a lame excuse - of not knowing it could be THAT serious!
i have a friend, diabetic too, she is only 25 when one eye went blind, and that's gonna be for the rest of her life. tat's really sad!
good that u gave him a lecture, hehehe
Yeah, its a real shame that people get blinded by diabetes. In Malaysia, 60% of diabetic caused blindness could be avoided if there was early detection and treatment.
hmmmm... this post got me thinking...
I think many of us are guilty of taking our parents for granted one time or another... just a matter of big or small matter
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