Thursday, September 13, 2007

Self-reflect

2day is a good day. The sky look beautiful with star but the moon just hiding dunno at which angle. Can't find it. The rural activity for 2day is quite fun as well. Beside got lots of food 2 eat, we got to talk to patient which each of them have their interesting stories. Let me briefly recap wat they said 2day.

The 1st patient of the day is a Brest Cancer patient. She is with her husband in that talking session. They are retiree and quite funny. She was diagnosed with Breast cancer after an mamogram showing a shadow as large as 50 cent coin. She then have the cancer and pymph nodes removed.

Then to the second patient which his appearance remind me about my late Grandpa. His story start with an X-ray showing a shadow at the upper left lung. Doctor assume that is cancer after fail to bronchoscopy. Then he went to Perth for further treatment but involve in accident which the doc there suspect he has Stroke. CT scan of brain show lesion. Without further investigation the doctor treat him with Radiation. Finally he get to know that he only got Bacteria Infection (Nocardia) which usually cause pneumonia and infect Brain. Fortunately he recover after few antibiotic but the unnecessary radition treatment cause him lots of side effects. We end up that session with him telling that "We live in this world with fun, if u got the money but do not hav fun, unmeaningful".. True...

Third patient she just sprain ankle and undergo surgery for that. She also has cataract and abdominal pain. We din talk detail about that but she only concern is the number of doctor in rural area and her transportation to healthcare center. Btw, she is from Scotland and she in nice. Her characteristic remind me of my Late Grandma. Miss u so much....

OK stop here..continue later....

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