Facing a Medical Challenge

Its easy to live by the day without a worry or care when we are young. When we are under the weather, our parents are there to care for us and look after our needs until we recover.

We grow up knowing that sometimes people around us who are especially more senior in age sometimes encounter situations where they need to be hospitalised. It is easy to observe the situation as a third party. We can be a little concerned but that's about it. The most we would probably do is to visit the medical centre and share our good wishes with a get well basket of goodies.

Now, when this befalls someone in the family, someone close to our hearts, then its a different situation altogether. We are overly concerned. We are there for them as much as we can. We want them to have a full recovery with our interest at heart because they are dear to us.

What if it hapens to us? How do we face it? What do we do? How do we behave?

This is the closest it can get. A major sickness is discovered. We need to go for an operation. Money would definitely be a concern but more importantly how strong are we to actually face this. Do we know how to be prepared? Now the tables have turned around, its not about someone else, its about us. We need to face it. We are going on that operation table, not anyone else. We are going to face the risk of to survive or not to survive.

Have we made ourselves mentally strong enough? Have we accepted that this happens to anyone and everyone in different forms? Have we accepted that its in our roadmap? We need to acknowledge that this is happening to us, we need to accept it and we need to go through it. It does help getting emotional support, spiritual support, to make us confident that we will recover and continue with our life soon.

So, don't wait until it happens to you. Prepare yourself mentally, spiritually, emotionally and with the appropriate knowledge of what you are facing or going to face in the journey of life on the path of ocassional sickness.

That way, your positive attitude will help you face it and recover well.