20210909 : dealing with patients
Some days back, my high school friend contacted me on chat. I used to meet a bunch of them often. Social media reunion. It used to be fun. There used to be a overactive WhatsApp group. They were a bunch of very networked and informed group. So they would have surely known about my stroke. The language and tone of interaction made it certain that he knew. Yet the chat was dancing around the main thing. After so long, amongst so many of them in that group, he had mustered up the courage to make contact, yet the poor fellow was clearly struggling to ask the question how I was doing now. I remember, there was a Cancer Survivor in that group. He had a relapse sometime close to my stroke. I had met him a few times in the group. But I never had the courage to meet him alone. Never had the courage to ask him directly how he was and about his illness. But seriously, how do we do it, interact when uncomfortable? There is no training for it. All the time when we are growing up, mostly, these are