two pictures
My uncle. He is very healthy now. He did a lot of exercise everyday .
Two years ago, doctor said his lungs were a mess that they could not do anything and so was his liver. He was un the hospital with other cancer patients who were waiting until their days came. The reason they stayed in the hospital as they could not afford to go to a central hospitals. But it was also doctors' attitudes. They kept patients but all they could do was to to provide some antibiotics and pain killers.
but patients felt ok to stay in the hospital rather than doing nothing. So did their families.
it happened the same with my uncle. he just stayed for few days for antibiotics and some measures to make him breath better and he went home. He took breathing exercise seriously and now he is in the place that he did not expect when the first time he came to the hospital where he just wished the miracle to keep him for few months.
the day I came to the hospital to visit him, I met this man. He came back and forth much more than my uncle.
it was also the same day, I show the hospital two health reports; one I took at my sister's hospital and it said it was likely I had thyroid cancer based on the ultrasound test and biopsy. And I showed them another untra-sound test and the doctor's recommend in the district hospital that said I might just have Graves' disease.
No matter how the first hospital was much better the hospital I needed their reference letter to go to Hanoi if I wanted the insurance to cover, they said I just had a benign tumor and the district hospital was right and they wanted me to stay in the hospital for further check but they were not sure if they could make a more accurate result.
My sister had to use her connection to bag the head of the Department of Tumors in the hospital to let me go to Hanoi. Yes, it turned out they were wrong and the first result was right.
so this photo meant a lot to me. It was a reminder of everything I went through that day and whenever I looked at it , I keep wonder if he is all right like my uncle.