Thursday, July 5, 2007

"You have to be patient. There are more than 1000 patients waiting for a kidney"

Dom looked through the glass window that parted her from her beloved. With fingers she clutched nothing, gently placing her hand on where her child should have been, on that transparent pane. She could not reach him -why could she not reach him? A toddler born of no more than three years, only to be stricken by an agonizing abdominal pain, a bodily rejection of all food and fluid, and a heart wenching wail that distressed all kin.

"When can I get the new kidney?",Dom cried, grabbing the collar of the tending doctor as he stepped out of the quarantine room, "You have to tell me -my son, he's dying! Please, I am beggi--"

"Madam, you have to be patient. This epidemic is a nation-wide crisis. Currently there are more than 1000 patients waiting for a kidney, and the chances of infecting the possible donors during surgery is just too high"

Dom broke down in tears and had no choice but to continue bringing her sick child for dialysis for almost every single day. Her hope for having a kidney for her child was vanishing day by day.

While Dom was bringing her child back to his ward at the fourth storey where the doctor's office was,what she heard brought a sudden stab in her heart.

"How much money do we have this month for scamming the patients that there was no more kidney left for them to get a transplant?" The doctor asked the nurse who worked for him.

Dom took her child to the adminstration counter to get her son out of this hospital immediately. She alerted the local newspaper and brought this scandal to a start. Not before long,the police went to the doctor's office to search for relevant evidence against the doctor and the hospital.Fortunately they found some evidence and brought them to court. Dom's wish for having a new kidney for her child was finally granted.

1 comment:

Candesu said...

The story is nice but your blog name ruins everything. Where is the suspense? The confidence? The mystique?

You need a suspending, confident and mysterious blog name, 'Champions of Prasanth' being an excellent example.

Do take my advice.

-Candesu

This goes to Prasanth, Gurvin, Candice, Vanessa, and Hui Min