Caesarean Section: Lottery and alcohol
It is true that life is a lottery ! Why shouldn’t he try one more time to win the lottery, which went
up to more than NT$ 100,000,000, if he spent NT$ 2,000?
Wasn’t it a tempting idea? If he did not buy, he would never have a chance to win. That was why he bought his chance with the money his wife gave to him for taking his son to visit another doctor. He could feel she felt ill at ease felt whenever she did that. He knew it especially when she smelled alcohol on his breath.
Wasn’t it a tempting idea? If he did not buy, he would never have a chance to win. That was why he bought his chance with the money his wife gave to him for taking his son to visit another doctor. He could feel she felt ill at ease felt whenever she did that. He knew it especially when she smelled alcohol on his breath.
Their beloved son
The care of his son wasn’t all covered by health insurance. He and his wife started a high-maintenance life since the moment of the birth of his son. He was unable to be an above-average breadwinner, but only an emotional rock with a kind-of-well-paid job. They survived a way they did not pay attention to or care about their career or happiness. They only tried very hard to help their son to gain a hope if possible to grow up like other kids even if took years.
For two years, each of both used up the quota of paid holidays up, and they thought it wasn’t enough. They were willingly to take their son to visit more doctors if they could make more money.
He knew his wife
could have lived nicely off the family inheritance for years, but luckily she had
wanted to work for something meaningful before they decided to start family. The timing for the C-section delayed the delivery.
It was a failure. The damage was done, that the umbilical cord seemed to twine the neck of the baby. It caused HIE.
Since that moment,
their family life was upside down. The little baby started its life with
endless and horrible testing, treatment and rehabilitation. Sometimes, they didn’t see much in the way of side effect about a treatment either. It was too hard to learn and see a swallow of milk
also took a long time with much effort for the tiny baby. He was crying in his
heart when he saw the mother, sitting next to him, smiling and clapping the dimpled hands together of her little baby. It was so healthy. He couldn’t take one
more look.
In the beginning,
their relatives and friends came to visit them in dribs and drabs. After a while, they were found they
could not share their feelings in front of their friends or relatives. Those
feelings were too difficult to explain or even to say. And what they were doing
made visitors around them feel uneasy. Both of them were unable to squeeze a
smile. Their minds filled with all kinds of anxious thoughts, and they failed to offer polite formulas offer to their kind guests. They seemed to expect to free from social contacts. Their visitors knew they needed to stop delivering sympathies or concerns, which were hard to take for both of them.
They were no more relaxed
about money. They knew it intolerable living with
debts and they wouldn’t let it happen. They lead a life on a careful budget and looked for anything needed on BOGOF (buy one get one free). A
bottle of wine was an extravagance was to
him, but he couldn’t resist it and she didn’t say a word about that.
Their baby in their
heart was never a burden. Was it because they learned that they weren’t the
master of their fate? And did they became fatalistic?
NO! Just out of love eternally! They learned what they had planned backfired, but they needed to fight for themselves and their beloved baby. They would always keep an ear to the ground about a treatment promising for their baby.
NO! Just out of love eternally! They learned what they had planned backfired, but they needed to fight for themselves and their beloved baby. They would always keep an ear to the ground about a treatment promising for their baby.
In the eyes of
others, he seemed to have a monkey on his back, spending money buying lotteries every week, but his wife knew he did not. After a lottery drawing, comes another hope waiting for him and
for her too.
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