"The Saddest Fear"

"The Saddest Fear"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I guess nothing is more frightening than typing in your laptop , asking for help from a workmate and then realizing that you are on your way to the clinic without even remembering how you got into the elevator and unto a wheel chair. 

From the chest pain and the numbness of your limbs  , to the shortness of breathe despite being on oxygen you have got to think that this is the scariest right?

Yet this patient's scariest thought is that he would inconvenience his family. That if he was sent to a nearer ER none of his family would come. Or he would cause them all a hassle. He was scared that he would be in that ER all alone. 

And this fear is probably the saddest one that I will remember.