in sickness and in health

when i returned from bandung last week, my youngest brother was admitted into the hospital due to ruptured appendix. he went to see the doctor at the university clinic and the stupid man actually pass it off as just gastric!

my brother was given the usual pain killers and some pills for gastric and was sent home, and he was actually lying in bed at his rented house for 4 days in pain, before actually calling up our sister who lives 15 minutes away when he realised the pain has to be more gastric, so our sister picked him up and took him to the hospital and he was immediately taken to the operation's room because the appendix has ruptured, his stomach is in a huge mess already :(

i dont understand university doctors, like they purposely do not want to treat students properly, i remember in UTP last time, we have a in campus clinic which is either closed most of the time coz the doc is away or when you actually go to them, all they do is give you panadols! like wtf right? maybe there are some students who tried to get away from exams or assignments or classes and faked a sickness or something so they can get an MC, but seriously, do your checks lah kan, see the historical data of the students first before passing off serious sickness as just flu or fever. like my brother for example, who is a dean's list student and hardly ever been sick in his life and has no history of gastric, take him seriously la when he said he's sick! ntah lah, diorang ni mcm makan gaji buta je :(

kesian my brother, he was really in shock..and one of us had to be around him all the time cos he cant be alone, so we all took turns, my parents are there most of the time, and i drove back and forth to melaka every other day to relieve my parents, my other sblings take turns too and alhamdullilah finally today he was discharged after being a week plus in the hospital..

it was nice to see his friends coming to visit him every single day, even friends from KL and as far as singapore, came to visit almost every other day, and yang di melaka apatah lagi, even my aunties from kelantan and terengganu came, all are so worried about him, he was really loved by everyone, ye lah anak bongsu kan, makes me wonder sometimes if i ever get sick would i be so lucky to get so many visitors? i mean, sometimes you would think you are close to someone but it takes a hard time or a sickness to really know your true friends kan?

like a simple thing in this case, when i posted my status on the facebook about my brother, i was surprised to see my closest friends, my own best friends not commenting on it at all, apetah lagi to call me or even sms..but then of course i realised that here is another reason why portals like facebooks are sometimes a source of evil, like im kecik hati cos when they didnt comment on my status, i immediately assumed that they dont care, i mean, back in the days when there's no facebook, i would have sms or called them and im sure they would be there for me, so see, facebook = evil (tetiba hahaha) :p