KIDS AND ME
Thursday, September 27th, 2007I used to be a kid, and everybody, you, and me, and everyone of us used to be a kid…
I love kids so much, I do…..
Long ago, when I used to be a kid, I did not like kids, I hate them, because they were nuisance, enjoyed creating mess…how unthoughtful of me..well that was me when I was a kid….
Now, I adore kids, they light up my life, they make my life colourful, they make me smile and they make me laugh…
As a doctor, I attended many case involving the kids, some kids were cooperative, some were, hmmm, very demanding, mengalahkan the parents and some were very darling!
If I were here, 10 years ago at my place now, I might be red from irritation of handling these groups of kids. I might be raising my voice, surrendered from treating them….but no more now. I love them, I love having them here in my clinic though the air in the room might be “hot” with their screaming, afraid of having treatment, but I just smile and talk patiently to them, cause they are my angle. I want them to grow up to have pleasant moment with the dentist, with me especially…it is true, dental treatment is not easy on kids, they might be crying, screaming, but as the doctor, we must not scream back at them, we must be patient, be gentle and handling them with love…
For some of my friends they found it was very hard to accept my work on treating difficult child, for them it was a tedious job, very challenging, especially if the kids were screaming and tossing and crying…they could not believe I can tolerate with the “pressure”. It is my job, my “amanah” that I must perform…few days ago I got to treat a girl with SJS, very tedious regime of treatment, the child was crying and screaming, it was a pressure moment for us….but today, we could see improvement in that child, less crying, she could open her eyes and see me smiling at her…I just hope she would cherish our attention on her, our patience on her, our care on her, and do I hope she could remember me Dr.Siti, as I was known here, when she grows up, as a smiling doctor…
It is a very pleasant moment to have kids around us, and I do hope one day I could have some. I do cherish all my nieces and nephews, especially those who I took care when they were small, to Dwan, Lisa and Alya, and not to forget Aman and Faiz, beautiful children that I always cherish…
Kids are gift from Allah, we must love and never put brutality on them, as what had happened to the child who was brutally tortured, nauzubillah, these humans have lost their humanity and have beast mask embrased them, let us take good care of our children and never let these insane people to tarnish our serenity.
Kids and me, a good team we could be,:)