It was morning, I just had my breakfast and was leisurely lurking around 4chan (don't ask me what was I doing there). The doorbell rang, thought that I would lift my lazy ass to look who is it, but my mom was there before me, so I resumed my lurking.
It turned out to be our Malay neighbour, who lives a few houses next to us (and the rest is Chinese, we're the only Malays in that row).
Well, he was asking for help as his aunt had passed out, and needed more guys to lift her (his mom is taking care of her because of her illness). I didn't give much thought and like a good friendly neighbour I went to help. I thought it wasn't such a big deal even after I saw the ambulance in front of their house. My house is near Hospital Selayang, so I see a great deal of them everyday and got quite used to it already.
Getting to the main point, when I got there I thought I'll be carrying a LIVING person, but it turned out that the supposedly PASSED OUT woman had PASSED AWAY already! And it happened right in front of me!
When I arrived at her room, the beeping sound (that you often heard from wards in hospitals) had changed into a long defeaning beep, the daughter was crying, and the paramedic who checked her informed us that she already gone. I was dumbstruck at the spot, and just melopong there for a few minutes as they make a few phonecalls to only God knows who.
I helped them to carry the lifeless body to the front hall so that they can manage her and went home to resume my lurking again.
Of course I feel a bit off seeing someone died, and it was totally a whole different feeling than seeing preserved corpses in the bilik mayat like I used to. But I know this is something that I cannot avoid as a future medical practitioner, and I need to get used to it.
2 comments:
Real life "training" is probably the most profound.
i have seen my dead grandma in her coffin before she was buried. though i didn't touch her.
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