Agony of a Sickler
But then he told me one touching thing that I still hear in my head over and over again.
This story is based on a true life experience...
Once I was sick and got admitted into a hospital. That same night, another boy was admitted into the ward - he was a sickler.
He cried so much, everything just seemed to hurt - the needles, the drips, the injection.
After all the nurses had gone and everywhere was calm, I got to chat with him.
"Bro, what brings you here?" I asked.
"Well I'm a 'sickler', I'm always in and out of hospitals " he said. He began telling me of how much hurt he suffered emotionally, how much he felt like just dying. I tried comforting him but all he kept saying was that I wouldn't understand.
He blamed his parents for everything, for getting married. He wished he had never been born. Yeah it was that bad.
I could understand that both of his parents were AS genotype. They knew before getting married the possibility of giving birth to a sickle cell child but decided to take the risk.
Unfortunately for him, he was the only one of the four children that was 'SS'. The first born he was.
He told me of his past experiences in & out of hospitals. He couldn't count how many times he had come close to dying, only to be resurrected again. He had spent more time in the hospital than outside it. For him, Life was just an accident waiting to happen.
It still bugs me till this very day because I am of the AS genotype and I don't want to make the mistake that boy's parents made. It's the gospel I have been preaching ever since I left his bedside.
If you love your partner so much, you would love the next generation enough not to take that risks. Do not bring in children into this world to suffer.
I didn't get a chance to know his name though because by daylight, he was discharged.
He said, "If my parents really loved each other, they would have thought about the kind of children they could bring into this world and would never have decided to get married."
This story is based on a true life experience...
Once I was sick and got admitted into a hospital. That same night, another boy was admitted into the ward - he was a sickler.
He cried so much, everything just seemed to hurt - the needles, the drips, the injection.
After all the nurses had gone and everywhere was calm, I got to chat with him.
"Bro, what brings you here?" I asked.
"Well I'm a 'sickler', I'm always in and out of hospitals " he said. He began telling me of how much hurt he suffered emotionally, how much he felt like just dying. I tried comforting him but all he kept saying was that I wouldn't understand.
He blamed his parents for everything, for getting married. He wished he had never been born. Yeah it was that bad.
I could understand that both of his parents were AS genotype. They knew before getting married the possibility of giving birth to a sickle cell child but decided to take the risk.
Unfortunately for him, he was the only one of the four children that was 'SS'. The first born he was.
He told me of his past experiences in & out of hospitals. He couldn't count how many times he had come close to dying, only to be resurrected again. He had spent more time in the hospital than outside it. For him, Life was just an accident waiting to happen.
It still bugs me till this very day because I am of the AS genotype and I don't want to make the mistake that boy's parents made. It's the gospel I have been preaching ever since I left his bedside.
If you love your partner so much, you would love the next generation enough not to take that risks. Do not bring in children into this world to suffer.
I didn't get a chance to know his name though because by daylight, he was discharged.
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