This morning a friend client walked through our doors and today she wasn't all upbeat as she normally is. I remember the first time she walked through the doors of SAS, she had just received the news that she was pregnant and didn't even know how to express her excitement. She saw our kids shop walked in, fell in love with the baby things and shared her good news. At the time she didn't even know where to start, she was just purely excited to be pregnant. For the past two months, everytime she is within the building she would pop in and her last visit she brought a friend who was also pregnant.
So today when she came and I asked how she was doing and she shared her story. She woke up with a headache and tried to ignore it last week. Later it got worse and she went to one of our local hospitals. She told them she was pregnant and they put her on a drip. They later sent her home. The pain persisted and she returned to same hospital with serious stomach pains. She was given buscopan for the stomach and sent home. They did an ultra sound and said she had fibroids and other complex things etc. She went to another well known hospital and in her pain queued for a while and yet the doctor couldn't tell her what was wrong. Later she went to yet another doctor who did an ultra sound and could not find the baby. She had lost her baby. She needed to be cleaned up and was given very strong antibiotics. The doctor suspects the typhoid medicine given through the drip was the cause of the miscarriage.
Now here was this young girl, whose dreams had been shattered. She was so excited about her unborn baby and had started planning on purchasing things.She told me she was much better today, but doesn't know what to tell her friends and family who knew there was a baby coming. I assured her that it was not her fault and with time she would get the strength to inform them.She said she has her days of being low, boredm happy or just indifferent. I sympathized with her but admired her strength and the support she has received from her fiance. I told her she was a woman of strength by the fact that she could walk into the kids shop, sit and talk. She cuddled a teddy bear abit, touched the sleep suits twice but was quite brave. I only pray for continued strength and healing of her heart and body. She said she will wait and try for baby after 1year. I encouraged her not to hold any bitterness towards anyone but to ask God to heal her broken heart.
That's why I like my job, beyond selling, I get to bond with some of the clients and am glad that she could find a safety nest here just to pour out her heart. She promised to keep coming . About our current doctors, I think its only God who can save and protect us. We need to pray for doctors who look beyond money,those who truly care for and are patient enough to listen to what the patient is saying before proceeding to give a diagnosis or medication. Thank God my friend is safe and has found a motherly doctor who has truly helped her get to where she is today. I know she will be well.
So today when she came and I asked how she was doing and she shared her story. She woke up with a headache and tried to ignore it last week. Later it got worse and she went to one of our local hospitals. She told them she was pregnant and they put her on a drip. They later sent her home. The pain persisted and she returned to same hospital with serious stomach pains. She was given buscopan for the stomach and sent home. They did an ultra sound and said she had fibroids and other complex things etc. She went to another well known hospital and in her pain queued for a while and yet the doctor couldn't tell her what was wrong. Later she went to yet another doctor who did an ultra sound and could not find the baby. She had lost her baby. She needed to be cleaned up and was given very strong antibiotics. The doctor suspects the typhoid medicine given through the drip was the cause of the miscarriage.
Now here was this young girl, whose dreams had been shattered. She was so excited about her unborn baby and had started planning on purchasing things.She told me she was much better today, but doesn't know what to tell her friends and family who knew there was a baby coming. I assured her that it was not her fault and with time she would get the strength to inform them.She said she has her days of being low, boredm happy or just indifferent. I sympathized with her but admired her strength and the support she has received from her fiance. I told her she was a woman of strength by the fact that she could walk into the kids shop, sit and talk. She cuddled a teddy bear abit, touched the sleep suits twice but was quite brave. I only pray for continued strength and healing of her heart and body. She said she will wait and try for baby after 1year. I encouraged her not to hold any bitterness towards anyone but to ask God to heal her broken heart.
That's why I like my job, beyond selling, I get to bond with some of the clients and am glad that she could find a safety nest here just to pour out her heart. She promised to keep coming . About our current doctors, I think its only God who can save and protect us. We need to pray for doctors who look beyond money,those who truly care for and are patient enough to listen to what the patient is saying before proceeding to give a diagnosis or medication. Thank God my friend is safe and has found a motherly doctor who has truly helped her get to where she is today. I know she will be well.
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