Thanks to Tia Chow for being there when love was needed most. And thanks to Carrie, our prayer team, for writing this short story!!!💖
Author: Sister Zou; Serving at Sichuan Zhaojue Hospital
Cutaneous calcification
My job is to spend time with patients suffering from illnesses. Patients of different ages, sexes, all kinds of diseases and faces with different needs, and through the daily visits and talks, trust is growing bigger, sprouting and growing silently in between the talks.
Almost every day something curious happened: one day, a patient saw us enter the room with a smile on his face, hurriedly picked up his test report and said with a confident face: "What's wrong with me (lung CT report)? I understand that this is the responsibility of the doctor in charge, I still took the report with great expectations, I read the "calcified spots", the patient's expression was very serious, I explained: calcified spots is that you have been in contact with tuberculosis, and now you have scabs, the patient still has a puzzled expression, we held out the hands of the patient who had suffered an injury, and said, in this place was injured, now healed but left behind. The patient said with enthusiasm, I know ......, told the patient that the most important thing is that you are better or not, the test report to the doctor in charge, he is responsible for your treatment, the patient replied with joy, I am much better, yes, I am cured. My disease is cured is the most important thing, to see the happiness and satisfaction of the patient, the most rewarding thing is our gratitude and inner joy, to be needed is the best proof of our existence.
Heartfelt message from Sister Carrie's Prayer Group to Auntie Chau:
People who are sick suffer. They suffer to varying degrees depending on the severity of their illness. The Sisters visit and talk to patients every day. Although they cannot prescribe medicine to relieve patients' pain as effectively as doctors can, the companionship they receive during the period of illness is a comfort to the soul and is another kind of healing. Similarly, in the process of comforting patients, the aunties also experienced the joy of being needed, which is really "giving a rose, leaving a fragrance in the hand"🌼
