Life in an ICU
Just imagine a crowd of anxious people thronging outside the entrance of the door with a guard inside the room resisting the people from getting inside. So what do you assume by this crowd who wants to get inside the gallery? No,it’s not a movie hall or a restaurant but the crowd that I am referring to are the relatives, who wish to have a look at their friends/spouse/wife/mother/parents/sons…etc who are inside the ICU(Intensive Care Unit.)
Yes, this is the darkest day of life for the person who is inside the ICU as well as their relatives who are both confused as well as worried about them. My mom was suffering from a disease called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT.) Now what is DVT? Well, a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot (thrombus) that develops in a deep vein, usually in the lower leg. You are familiar with blood clotting outside a blood vessel, which is a normal process that protects the body against losing blood. But if the blood clots inside a blood vessel however (as with DVT), this can be dangerous.
If the thrombus breaks free and travels through the veins, it can reach the lungs, where it is called a pulmonary embolism (PE). A pulmonary embolism is a potentially fatal condition that can kill within hours. This was the disease that my mom got a couple of days back.
I went inside the ICU and I saw the patients being treated with utmost care by the nurses and doctors. I saw the patients covered with wires all around and you could hardly recognize who is your relative as different types of wires are put on their face with a small monitoring machine and there were not just one machine but a couple of them. Then I saw my Mom who was looking much better than the rest of the patients, as she was admitted to the ICU only because her heart rate was bit higher and also there were no wires in her face. At one glance to a patient near my Mom, I saw an old man who was struggling for life. I was so surprised to see the nurses being so calm and comfort with their duty in providing the old man with some oxygen masks or some stuffs which I did not have any idea about it, but the man was struggling and I could hear his breath gasping out loud. This made me to think, “Did he ever think of having such a painful life?”, “Will he be able to come out of this painful situation?”…etc.
Well, this is the darkest days of life. I came out of the ICU and went to a hotel to have my lunch. The picture of the old man, his eyes, the sound of his breath…etc disturbed me a lot and I could not have my lunch. Then I saw a lovely pair inside the restaurant who were busy treating one another a burger and a soft drink. Then I thought for a while that a time will come when they will become old one day. Will they remember those beautiful days that they enjoyed, the jokes they cracked, the beautiful romantic evening. But I thought that how stupid I was to think that way. Then I arrived to the hospital to see the reports of my Mom.
When one member of a family stays in a hospital then the whole family has to undergo the tensions and sufferings caused due to the patient. Whatever be, everybody wants their ailing relatives for a speedy recovery. But one thing that I want to say you that just visit a hospital once in a month and see the dark side of life. Sounds stupid again, I guess. But try to be practical.
Life is not really a bed of roses. The thorns are too thorny and they may prick you in no time. I am not saying that you should not enjoy life but what I mean is that just experience the bitter tastes of life. Waking up in the morning, speeding up to the office, returning back to the four walls of your room after 8-9 hrs of work is not life at all. So, what I mean is that one should also tastes the dark side of life. So enjoy life and also have a bitter taste of life because nobody knows what future holds for you tomorrow. You will never be able to forget those depressing moments in your entire lifetime.
But get prepared in life for the calamity that you will have to face in the course of your life. Remember “Life Sucks.” I remember the phrase, “Nobody dies virgin because life fucks everybody.”
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Yes, this is the darkest day of life for the person who is inside the ICU as well as their relatives who are both confused as well as worried about them. My mom was suffering from a disease called Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT.) Now what is DVT? Well, a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot (thrombus) that develops in a deep vein, usually in the lower leg. You are familiar with blood clotting outside a blood vessel, which is a normal process that protects the body against losing blood. But if the blood clots inside a blood vessel however (as with DVT), this can be dangerous.
If the thrombus breaks free and travels through the veins, it can reach the lungs, where it is called a pulmonary embolism (PE). A pulmonary embolism is a potentially fatal condition that can kill within hours. This was the disease that my mom got a couple of days back.
I went inside the ICU and I saw the patients being treated with utmost care by the nurses and doctors. I saw the patients covered with wires all around and you could hardly recognize who is your relative as different types of wires are put on their face with a small monitoring machine and there were not just one machine but a couple of them. Then I saw my Mom who was looking much better than the rest of the patients, as she was admitted to the ICU only because her heart rate was bit higher and also there were no wires in her face. At one glance to a patient near my Mom, I saw an old man who was struggling for life. I was so surprised to see the nurses being so calm and comfort with their duty in providing the old man with some oxygen masks or some stuffs which I did not have any idea about it, but the man was struggling and I could hear his breath gasping out loud. This made me to think, “Did he ever think of having such a painful life?”, “Will he be able to come out of this painful situation?”…etc.
Well, this is the darkest days of life. I came out of the ICU and went to a hotel to have my lunch. The picture of the old man, his eyes, the sound of his breath…etc disturbed me a lot and I could not have my lunch. Then I saw a lovely pair inside the restaurant who were busy treating one another a burger and a soft drink. Then I thought for a while that a time will come when they will become old one day. Will they remember those beautiful days that they enjoyed, the jokes they cracked, the beautiful romantic evening. But I thought that how stupid I was to think that way. Then I arrived to the hospital to see the reports of my Mom.
When one member of a family stays in a hospital then the whole family has to undergo the tensions and sufferings caused due to the patient. Whatever be, everybody wants their ailing relatives for a speedy recovery. But one thing that I want to say you that just visit a hospital once in a month and see the dark side of life. Sounds stupid again, I guess. But try to be practical.
Life is not really a bed of roses. The thorns are too thorny and they may prick you in no time. I am not saying that you should not enjoy life but what I mean is that just experience the bitter tastes of life. Waking up in the morning, speeding up to the office, returning back to the four walls of your room after 8-9 hrs of work is not life at all. So, what I mean is that one should also tastes the dark side of life. So enjoy life and also have a bitter taste of life because nobody knows what future holds for you tomorrow. You will never be able to forget those depressing moments in your entire lifetime.
But get prepared in life for the calamity that you will have to face in the course of your life. Remember “Life Sucks.” I remember the phrase, “Nobody dies virgin because life fucks everybody.”
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posted by Anubhuti Dutta at 5:34 PM
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