Let me share with you a moment out of a doctor's life that made me think and made me humble:
I have an 80 year old male patient. He has cancer in a far stage. He is sometimes a bit confused because of his starting dementia, but he has his clear moments. And today he said someting unexpected. I wished him and his daughters a good weekend an afternoon last week and he said: "thank you doctor, for letting me gaze every morning into one of the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen". I had to laugh, because he said it with such a serious face and thanked him for the big compliment.
A man who might not live long anymore and gazing into my eyes every morning, well more times on the day actually, is a small joy for him. And perhaps he said it in a not clear moment, perhaps he was not serious at all, but in all that we say is always a little truth. And he is still looking, in a confused moment or not, for the small moments of joy in his life.
All these patients have special stories of their lives. So has this man and these life stories inspire me. It shows what fighting and will power humans have. We can overcome a lot.
And at the end of our life, what will we think of what we made out of it? Would we be longing to look into a pair of beautiful eyes as well? Well, this man can gaze into my eyes after the weekend again, because he is not leaving the hospital soon. Atleast I and the nurses have made him laugh also this week.
A day not laughed is a day not lived.
I have an 80 year old male patient. He has cancer in a far stage. He is sometimes a bit confused because of his starting dementia, but he has his clear moments. And today he said someting unexpected. I wished him and his daughters a good weekend an afternoon last week and he said: "thank you doctor, for letting me gaze every morning into one of the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen". I had to laugh, because he said it with such a serious face and thanked him for the big compliment.
A man who might not live long anymore and gazing into my eyes every morning, well more times on the day actually, is a small joy for him. And perhaps he said it in a not clear moment, perhaps he was not serious at all, but in all that we say is always a little truth. And he is still looking, in a confused moment or not, for the small moments of joy in his life.
All these patients have special stories of their lives. So has this man and these life stories inspire me. It shows what fighting and will power humans have. We can overcome a lot.
And at the end of our life, what will we think of what we made out of it? Would we be longing to look into a pair of beautiful eyes as well? Well, this man can gaze into my eyes after the weekend again, because he is not leaving the hospital soon. Atleast I and the nurses have made him laugh also this week.
A day not laughed is a day not lived.
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