Fatmawati General Hospital

Yesterday I went to RS Fatmawati, a government's public hospital, 'coz I couldn't help to hold the pain within my right ear anymore and couldn't sleep at all the whole night. This happened because I got an ear infection and it's really painfull. It's my second visit to the hospital since 1996 when I had a car accident in front of the hospital around Fatmawati boulevard.

I remember that on the day I had the accident, I walked alone from the accident site where the other friends tried to save their life from the smoke coming out from the broken car. I walked down the road with bloods tearing from my forehead and my high school shirt was torn out and dirty. It was surprising for me that when I arrived in the hospital they suspected that I had just finished school fighting with other juvenille. Anyway, on that day itself, I couldn't believe that I managed to escape from the deathly accident which had me and the other three friends in the car hit the road pavements and rolled three times after avoiding an old woman doubtly trying to walk across the street on a slippery intersection. It was deathly and a lot of people saw the accident on that day.

Anyway, back to the story about yesterday, I decided to meet a doctor and asked for some painkiller medicines. I realized to come to a goverment's public hospital in Indonesia sometimes mean you must bear a very long time queeing in a line since it's very slow and not very responsive customer service and it was very unorganized. There was no clear direction where I must go to see the doctor and the process it's very damn-slow. But something really strucked my attention when I wanted to take my medicines in the drug store in the hospital. I wasn't aware before that my mom with my brother was talking to an old woman whom cuddling a very cute young girl. She asked what had happened to the girl since she looked like only swinging her head many times to the sofa where she sat in. The young girl didn't move a lot and only moving her head many times. A very nice young girl with a very nice nose, but unfortunately must take a very intensive care because she has a strong deathly virus in her body. She couldn't walk nor see other people because of the virus. In fact the doctor said it was what they called as a "Cat Virus" since it attacked usually a pregnant woman and it happened to the young girl's mother when she got pregnant. The grandmother told us that when she was a baby it was even worst since she could not move anything within her body and it looked like her body shrinken and got smaller.

The young girl is now 3 years old. It means that she has been enduring and taking the virus within her body for 3 years. From that time, she has been progressing a lot improvements in her body where she is now able to stretch her arms and legs normally and also move her head upwards. She is a very nice young girl and she just happens to have an unfortunate sickness. The hospital team said that she needed to be taken to intensive care at any times because they needed to monitor her heatlh condition. The thing is that she comes from a very poor family. Her mom is only a kindergarden teacher and her dad had left her ever since her dad knew she had this kind of abnormal body condition. I curse her dad of being inresponsible to take care her mom and herself. I felt like want to help that little young girl and her mom said it's even enough for her to know that I care for her daughter. Her mom is really a strong woman. Living in Jakarta with that kind of condition must be very hard for her and her family without a husband especially to take care a little young girl with that special condition. I offered her anything I could do to help her and her little daughter and she said thank you for being very kind.

I left the hospital with one thing in mind that sometimes it's very fortunate for me to have a normal body condition and I must be thankful to Lord that I could do a lot of thing with a normal body. I imagined myself with that young little girl whom could not do anything with her physical body. It must be very painful for her and even to take a long process of intensive medical care with a lot of body operations and medicines. Poor little girl, she should have been out there playing around with other children not staying in hospital. I want to pray for her and her family. May God bless her and always take care of her. Amen.