Obligation to remain sick!

Many years (a quarter of a century) ago, when I was still in training, there was a patient who used to stay in the wards for weeks on end for asthma. Even though he may be moving around the ward, chit-chatting and carrying tales from patient to patient to create territorial animosity between chronic long-staying patients, when it comes to morning rounds, he would be wrapped in blanket sweating like a pig creating wheezy noisy breathing insisting that he was still unwell to return home. It went on for some time until the senior officer of the ward, aware of chronic asthmatics' ability to feign a wheezing sound of an asthmatic attack, managed to coax him to return to his worldly duties like working for a living! I can swear by the look that he had on face, he was screaming ala Arnold Schwarzenegger avenging to be back -"Hasta la vista baby!"

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In our daily life too, we see many able bodies running their lives as if theirs is the most tragedy stricken, ailment filled torturous life that is a burden living. Yet, they failed to see how so many physically, mentally and economically challenged individuals carry on life making do with what they have and are capable of and utilizing it to its fullest potential. Yet, there remains an obligation to remain sick as an outlet to garner sympathy that there so yearn as well avoidances of challenges of getting up in the morning and facing the obstacles of the real world.

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