my group had a 72 year old sweet grandpa as a patient yesterday
he has a history of recurrent heart attacks for the last 6 yrs and now presenting with what seems like congestive heart failure (with all the positive PE findings wow!)
on further interrogation, we found out that he is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict
have been drinking since 10 years old and doing drugs since 12
he run away from home at very young age, sleeping in the alley, getting into gang fights etc
just listening to his story had me thinking
how much your body can take looking at how bad we treated n abuse ourself but hey, look at him, 72 and still alive despite wat a 'wreck' he is right now wats with no pension or savings and multiple health condition needing treatments
i can only imagine going through his childhood
when i was 10 i was running around with frens at school
and he's running around chasing bottles
when i was 12 the biggest worry was will i'll be able to score in my 1st big exam
his was how to get thru the day without the high he shooting himself with
it's sad and sounds so awfully wrong
no one should go thru dat kind of life
but perhaps dats the most important life lesson to be learn
LIFE IS HARD
but dat's just life, eh?
he has a history of recurrent heart attacks for the last 6 yrs and now presenting with what seems like congestive heart failure (with all the positive PE findings wow!)
on further interrogation, we found out that he is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict
have been drinking since 10 years old and doing drugs since 12
he run away from home at very young age, sleeping in the alley, getting into gang fights etc
just listening to his story had me thinking
how much your body can take looking at how bad we treated n abuse ourself but hey, look at him, 72 and still alive despite wat a 'wreck' he is right now wats with no pension or savings and multiple health condition needing treatments
i can only imagine going through his childhood
when i was 10 i was running around with frens at school
and he's running around chasing bottles
when i was 12 the biggest worry was will i'll be able to score in my 1st big exam
his was how to get thru the day without the high he shooting himself with
it's sad and sounds so awfully wrong
no one should go thru dat kind of life
but perhaps dats the most important life lesson to be learn
LIFE IS HARD
but dat's just life, eh?
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