Oct 30, 2024. 1950 hrs
Both gabor mate, susan cain, and a. Helwa told a story about Nasruddin, the foolish character Rumi made in his sufi stories, in their books. Who happened to lose his keys. All his friends help him to find the key and asked where did the last time he saw/hold the key. He said,"in my house." But he himself and his friend was there outside the house (instead of in the inside). "Then why we are here? Not inside?"
"Because there is light out here, i can see clearly."
He looked for something in the wrong place because the wrong place seemed easier for him to see.
What a story.
A colleague of mine had a miscarriage. Well, when i say a colleague means i dont really talk to her unless its about patients stuff. She seemed shock but also strong. She is a doctor, she knows whats going on. The night she got to the emergency room (ER), she was well understood that she experienced a hypovolemic shock, a state when she bled too much thus heart and lung were compromised. The heart rate spiked.
We rescucitated and she was sent to operating theatre (OT) directly.
Parts of conception was expelled when we were in the ER. She needed to undergo curretage in order to stop the bleeding. It went well alhamdulillah.
The next day, i came to see her. She was cheerful, alhamdulillah, i dont have to feel like breaking bad news, i thought. And i did the usual patient education such as what i did in the OT, the specimens (the baby and the placenta i took out), some precautions, warning signs, etc. Include : future pregnancy.
She already knew what causes the miscarriage for her first pregnancy: unexplained. We could not know unless we spent thousands of unnecesarry expensive tests only to find out why and most of cases are just cannot be explained. We dont know why.
I mentioned,
we can do screening for the next pregnancy, we better off plan the pregnancy well, etc etc.
But above all, sometimes even if we screen all the possibilities of underlying disease of you or any chromosomal defect on the baby, sometimes we dont look for the cause in your mind.
So, its important that you made your peace first and be true to yourself and we can meet to do screening and planning to conceive after that. Sometimes, for newlywed, some stressed are triggered because the baby came too soon, you dont have time for honeymoon or the feeling you cant be a mother yet.
Then i closed with, itu tabungan pahala, dont feel guilty and theres nothing to be blamed.
She looked down and try to avoid eye contact while i said the baby came too soon.
I believed that whatever stress we carry, it affects the body. What happened to us, maybe its the way God answers our prayers.