Today.....

started off with lazy thoughts of going to do the boring and disgusting task of cleaning people's teeth(scaling).Today was the first day of this posting in this cycle,which means ,it's been quite some time since I did this job.... there's always this starting trouble when I get to each posting.. to add on is the heat ...and to make things worse, the head cap and the mask...
It was my turn to do my third case , was about to call his name.. when my Asst.Professor asked me to take up another patient instead...I'd already noticed this girl who had been sitting alone and had taken a second look at her.. She had sunken eyes, closed... She was blind.. later got to know that she had lost her eyesight at the age of 5 due to some growth.
Though I was quite eager to treat this girl,I had my concerns too, as to how I would deal with her.Got her seated in the chair with her mother's help and then got to doing my work.She began crying in between with pain,or probably because she didn't exactly know what I was doing on her.I tried my best with my not so fluent Tamil and finally ended my treatment plucking out one of her milk teeth too(because of the force and besides, it was time for it to fall out... though not part of the treatment plan,not an error...mind you...)
May be this sounds simple and silly,but personally it gave me good satisfaction of having treated such a patient.
The day then moved on and on my way back home,while waiting for the bus,I saw a disturbing sight... a man half nude with raw flesh exposed on his left arm ,was lying near the bus stop.I turned my head around. But then my curiosity made me have another look at the pathetic sight of that man who was just skin and bones.I guess he is mentally ill and needs help. God help him,though it's quite unfair to say that ,having done nothing even after seeing him in that state.
All this makes me wonder, is it really right of me to be cribbing over all that I'm not able to do , achieve or enjoy?Am I doing what I should be doing? I'm confused... confused as always...