Around the child with Cerebral Palsy

Went to med school after the vacations and the clinical rotation resumes from Pediatrics, now I have a love and hate relationship with the subject, sometimes it's very interesting and rewarding when you're examining a child but sometimes being a student and not a very attentive one in class, panic takes over you and you're standing at the bedside of a young child who's crying louder than whatever volume your headphones can max out on and the mother is trying to calm him/her down and sometimes the mother just wishes you stop bothering her and her child. 

So someone was presenting a case on Cerebral Palsy, it was an exciting topic to be very honest but think about this, you're about 27-28 people all around a bed trying to hear and see what's happening but sometimes there's audio but no video and sometimes you can't see and you can't hear either and then  you stand for almost 2 hours and are drenched in sweat and still you don't know half of the things which happened. 

So this boy was the eldest of her children, her two younger children died in infancy and she had a fourth baby back in October of 2017, so CP is a condition which affects your movement and postures, there are various grades for classification of the disease depending upon the severity and this little boy was with the highest disability, he was not able to utilize his body and his head was the same size of that as a 4 month old.  While the professor was explaining different aspects of the disease, the mother could understand things which weren't super medical knowledge. There was this helplessness which was on her face, while she was trying to calm her child down, one could most definitely feel her pain, her sorrow and the fact that her eight year old was just like a 3 month old, unable to speak, unable to run, unable to walk around and play, unable to go to a school, yet she wasn't giving up on her, when he was calm and not crying, you could trace happiness on her face and that was a real joy to see. It was for me at least, learning about diseases and treatments is important but learning about emotions, values, feelings and people is equally important for me. Learn about people cause thats what we are, a disease doesn't walk into the clinic and ask me for treatment, a human comes suffering and asks to be treated as a human being and not a pathology. Breathe compassion.

And now to study CP and other things. Gonna write a short urdu story on this, hopefully it'll be a good one. 

Mothers are full of magic, full of energy, dedication and love.

If you see a mother caring for her disabled child, you get to experience something pure and genuine, pure love. 

Whenever you see your mother, be very happy and appreciate her a lot, cause we take things for granted and that's just not how its supposed to be. 

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