Can't agree more. Each visit
Dear Dr Chew and the rest of the friends,
Can't agree more. Each visit to the doctor with my mum makes me feel that we are just there to be subjected to all the tests and the confirmation of "yes..you need to add more drugs into your system". One doctor in one of the hospitals in Singapore was so nice only on one occassion when he wants my mum and her children to give our blood for his research. That was the final draw for me to switch my mum to another doctor.
Am really grateful for all the unconditional advices and care that the friends in this list offer.
Shan
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From: chew nee kong <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:44:15 PM
Subject: Re: a thought
Dear Moneesha
You are absolutely right. There is no point in saying something nice to the Parkinson's patients if it does not come from our heart.
Empathy and compassion for the Parkinson's community are seriously lacking in my country. Based on my own experience, even some of our NGO's who claim to love Parkinson's patients are actually doing it for their own personal gains - I guess it is hard to find people who are truly compassionate.
But I am very happy that the PIEN is going on well - it is one of the best ways for the world Parkinson's community to reach out to and care for each other.
Dr Chew
> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:54:45 +0530
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: a thought
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Dear Dr. Chew,
>
> How right you are about education, but what is also needed is empathy and
> compassion. I am posting here something that was posted by a fellow CG on
> CARE. His wife, who is a PD patient now fairly advanced, had saved it on
> their computer. I think you might find it useful -
>
> Blessed are you that never bids us "hurry up" and more blessed are you that
> do not snatch our tasks from our hands to do them for us, for often we need
> time rather than help.
>
>
> Blessed are you who take time to listen to defective speech, for you help us
> to know that if we persevere, we can be understood.
>
>
>
> Blessed are you who walk with us in public places and ignore the stares of
> strangers, for in your companionship we find havens of relaxation.
>
>
>
> Blessed are you who stand beside us as we enter new ventures, for our
> failures will be outweighed by times we surprise ourselves and you.
>
>
> Blessed are you who ask for our help, for our greatest need is to be needed
>
>
> Blessed are you when by all these things you assure us that the thing that
> makes us individuals is not our peculiar muscles, nor our wounded nervous
> system, but the God-given self that no infirmity can confine.
>
>
> Blessed are those who realize that I am human and don't expect me to be
> saintly just because I am disabled.
>
>
> Blessed are those who understand that sometimes I am weak and not just lazy
>
>
> Blessed are those who pick things up without being asked.
>
>
> Blessed are those who forget my disability of the body and see me as a whole
> person, unique and complete, and not as "half" and one of God's mistakes.
>
>
> Blessed are those who love me just as I am without wondering what I might
> have been like.
>
>
> Blessed are my friends on whom I depend, for they are the substance and joy
> of my life!!!!
>
>
> "A true handicap is what we don't do with what we have, not what we can't do
> with what we don't have."
> Christopher H. Brewer
>
> All the best in the wonderful work you are doing.
> Moneesha
>
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