All you can do is wait.

Yesterday and today were the days that I discovered that two people I know have a health problem. The problem wasn’t that bad. It wasn’t like one needed a kidney transplant and the other needed to go to surgery. Instead it was more like a problem which has developed through time and the other was just beginning to emerge. So what do you do when something like this happens to someone you know? Well, most people would answer, “All you can do is wait and hope for the best”. But what happens if the outcome of the situation turns bad? What happens then? Do you just give up hope?

Well for a friend of mine; her family and friends never gave up hope, when she was in a comma. Because miracles do happen when you least except it. My memory of what happened maybe vague, because I wasn’t there at the time, but; I presume this is what happened when she told me. My friend was in an accident about 3 or 2 years ago. She was drinking over her limit and as a result her father decided to drive her home. When she was in the car, she felt as if she was about to vomit. Her father, who was unaware, was still driving. She quickly opened the passage door to stick her head outside to vomit, as her father who was still driving. However, she accidently fell out. The end result was a damaged skull and bleeding. The news spread throughout the school between the teachers. Every teacher who knew her asked all the students who she generally hung out with. Once they knew, who her friends where, they only announced the problem to them. But like all news within a school, it spread like wild fire in her year. As I recalled, she was in a comma for about 4 months. She was on life support. Her family and friends visited regularly. It wasn’t til about the 4th month that the doctor mentioned to take her off life support, when she woke up. To her family and friends it was a miracle. I’ve known her since we were in year 1 in primary school. Even though we kind of parted during high school, we were always still friends with each other.

So I think that, no matter what the situational outcome of the problem is, keeping hope for that person is a way of showing hope for them. Even though to you it may seem as if waiting and doing nothing seems useless and all, by waiting it shows that you haven’t given hope for them.