As a medical physicist, I and my other colleagues are often get called by doctors when they are examining patients or evaluating patients' treatment to be asked advices in physics point of view. One day I got a call from my chief oncologist to see her in her practicing room downstair. So I went to her room and saw her evaluating her patient's CT images on a lightbox. I saw a little girl sitting on her mother's lap and her dad sitting beside them, in front of doctor's desk. The doctor let me look at the images and pointed out to me the location of the tumor that has been removed. It was located at the left orbital, and it seems that the left eye has been removed as well. I asked her to be sure, "has her left eye been removed?" "Yes, look at her!" And I saw her left eye area was covered by a bandage.
I just couldn't imagine how a cute little girl like her has lost one of her eyes in such her young age. Long-black haired, chubby and beautiful girl like her is supposed to have fun with her friends, go to school, learn new things. But now she has just lost half of her sight and her life must be affected terribly by this. Not to mention the threat of tumour recurrence or metastasis.
The doctor asked me whether is it possible to create the treatment plan based on the old CT-scan. Then she answered quickly to herself that we need the patient to have CT-planning for accuracy, and I agreed that. So she asked the parents reluctantly, "I'm afraid that she has to undergo a CT-planning, and it will cost more" "No problem doc, anything best for her!" said the dad.
I'm not sure whether the parents are from wealthy family or not, but their answer indicates how much they love her daughter, more than everything in heaven and earth. Suddenly I cried in heart, wondering if I were that poor little girl, my parents would definitely answer the same thing. And if I had a child suffering great illness, I might also try the best that I could to keep my child healthy. It doesn't matter if money, job, position have to be sacrificed, neck-choking loan has to be taken, they are all nothing compared to the loved ones.
Working in a hospital realizes you that love... is everywhere, is powerful.
Have you ever felt losing someone is just like losing one part of your body? It's like an unbearable pain, but you have to take it no matter what, for your own good.
