Please....give me back my hand....
This is a true story I heard from a friend of my mother. I'm not faking a story. It is about a three years old boy who is still learning of everything but he must suffer from disability in his right hand because of his parents mistake and his babysitter.
I know that there might be some other children suffer the worse disability but this one made me cried because of something said by this innocent boy.
This boy is just 3 years old and he has busy parents. Both parents are working. His parents always left everything in care of babysitter. This little boy is actually smart and he's very active. He loves to draw with his crayons or anything he can use. In the past few days before the incident, he drew the walls in his house. Don't ask where the babysitter was....she was there watching but she didn't do anything to stop the boy because the boy drew on wall happily and he became quite. This is the only thing the babysitter cared about.
When the parents home, they didn't really care about the walls being drawn. Well, walls can be painted again. However in the next day, the boy found a rusty nail which he grabbed and used to smear or scratch.....the car in the garage.
This time his parents mad at him and hit the boy's hands hardly. The hands were swollen and of course it hurt, this boy cried at that time.
Several days later, the boy got sick. He had high fever that he even seizure. Finally the boy taken into the hospital and here the doctor said that the boy's right hand must be amputated. The doctor said there was no other way because this boy apparently suffer tetanus. Probably, he didn't washed off his hands after holding the rusty nail. Probably that boy had a minor cut while holding the rusty nail. I don't know which one is the real reason but this is a bad condition.
Because there was no other way, the amputation was done in order to save the boy. The boy woke up and realized that his parents were there.
So he said, "Dad..." He reached out his hand (the amputated one) to shake his father hand. He soon realized that his right hand was gone.
He then said, "Huh? Where's my hand? Dad...mom? Why does it disappear...? I just want to shake dad's hand...Dad...give me back my hand....please...give me back my hand...."
He cried as he kept saying those words and his parents couldn't do anything but cry together with him while hugging him. Regret took over these parents and they don't know what to do. They told everything (they asked for advice to this matter) to my mother's friend who told this story to me and my mother. It broke my heart how this innocent boy cried while saying the simple wish to shake the hands of his parents. He's a good boy.... TT~TT but now his smile is gone....
It irritates me to know that some parents are just ignorant enough to let their children suffer from things they shouldn't. The parents here were at fault and so was the babysitter.
The babysitter was wrong here. She didn't show the professional work as babysitter by letting the boy out of her sight. but the parents were so wrong too....
Parents shouldn't left their children to babysitter alone. Just talking or playing for a little time will make the children happy especially the little children who are still very clingy to the parents just like this little boy. It's just a little of their time, is it really that difficult? Parents should be more careful in taking care their children; their own future. Parents shouldn't dip themselves in anger and blindly ground their children for a mistake. Compare to this boy's hand and his cheerfulness, a car is nothing. Now the parents regret it and will have more tasks in taking care of their only child.
I hope this boy will not feel inferior and able to find a way to shine in his own way. And this will only happen with support of his parents.
I made a mental note to never become this kind of parents when I become a mother one day.
Let me explain a little about shaking hands here. In my country, Indonesia, the younger people are usually taking the hands of the elder and kiss the hands or put the hands on cheek or forehead for a while in order to show respect. This is not always necessary because there are some occasions when it is not needed. I do put the hands of my older relatives (like my parents or my uncles and aunties and my grandmother) on my forehead. This is a form of my respect.
I know that there might be some other children suffer the worse disability but this one made me cried because of something said by this innocent boy.
This boy is just 3 years old and he has busy parents. Both parents are working. His parents always left everything in care of babysitter. This little boy is actually smart and he's very active. He loves to draw with his crayons or anything he can use. In the past few days before the incident, he drew the walls in his house. Don't ask where the babysitter was....she was there watching but she didn't do anything to stop the boy because the boy drew on wall happily and he became quite. This is the only thing the babysitter cared about.
When the parents home, they didn't really care about the walls being drawn. Well, walls can be painted again. However in the next day, the boy found a rusty nail which he grabbed and used to smear or scratch.....the car in the garage.
This time his parents mad at him and hit the boy's hands hardly. The hands were swollen and of course it hurt, this boy cried at that time.
Several days later, the boy got sick. He had high fever that he even seizure. Finally the boy taken into the hospital and here the doctor said that the boy's right hand must be amputated. The doctor said there was no other way because this boy apparently suffer tetanus. Probably, he didn't washed off his hands after holding the rusty nail. Probably that boy had a minor cut while holding the rusty nail. I don't know which one is the real reason but this is a bad condition.
Because there was no other way, the amputation was done in order to save the boy. The boy woke up and realized that his parents were there.
So he said, "Dad..." He reached out his hand (the amputated one) to shake his father hand. He soon realized that his right hand was gone.
He then said, "Huh? Where's my hand? Dad...mom? Why does it disappear...? I just want to shake dad's hand...Dad...give me back my hand....please...give me back my hand...."
He cried as he kept saying those words and his parents couldn't do anything but cry together with him while hugging him. Regret took over these parents and they don't know what to do. They told everything (they asked for advice to this matter) to my mother's friend who told this story to me and my mother. It broke my heart how this innocent boy cried while saying the simple wish to shake the hands of his parents. He's a good boy.... TT~TT but now his smile is gone....
It irritates me to know that some parents are just ignorant enough to let their children suffer from things they shouldn't. The parents here were at fault and so was the babysitter.
The babysitter was wrong here. She didn't show the professional work as babysitter by letting the boy out of her sight. but the parents were so wrong too....
Parents shouldn't left their children to babysitter alone. Just talking or playing for a little time will make the children happy especially the little children who are still very clingy to the parents just like this little boy. It's just a little of their time, is it really that difficult? Parents should be more careful in taking care their children; their own future. Parents shouldn't dip themselves in anger and blindly ground their children for a mistake. Compare to this boy's hand and his cheerfulness, a car is nothing. Now the parents regret it and will have more tasks in taking care of their only child.
I hope this boy will not feel inferior and able to find a way to shine in his own way. And this will only happen with support of his parents.
I made a mental note to never become this kind of parents when I become a mother one day.
Let me explain a little about shaking hands here. In my country, Indonesia, the younger people are usually taking the hands of the elder and kiss the hands or put the hands on cheek or forehead for a while in order to show respect. This is not always necessary because there are some occasions when it is not needed. I do put the hands of my older relatives (like my parents or my uncles and aunties and my grandmother) on my forehead. This is a form of my respect.