I admire and respect this mom who is truly a supermom!
35 yr old patient of mine with multiple sclerosis who is wheelchair bound and needs assistance with everything. Patient has a 5 year old daughter. husband was hopeful about her recovery and tagged along all these years but knowing the severity and course of this progressive condition he started loosing hope. Disability can put strain to strong relationships as well given how selfish today's generation is getting. They are in a process of getting divorce. I can't image the physical and mental strength, both patient and her mother has.
Patient's mother had her own medical problems. She had colon cancer , for which she needed surgery. She had bells palsy which left one side of her face paralyzed and on top of that she developed as chronic back pain while taking care of her daughter by lifting and transferring her. On asking how she is coping with all this she was in tears and said' I am not going to lie or sugar coat it, I have my plate full and it's hard to take care of my daughter, grand daughter and take care of house'.
Patient has stopped walking 3 years ago. Her goal is to get back to walking again. After few exercises, and with the help of a walker we made patient take few steps with mom carrying wheelchair behind us so that the patient doesn't fall. She was ecstatic seeing her daughter start walking again... Oh what a joy!! and at the end she patted patient's back, rubbed her shoulder and gave a big hug to her daughter. She said that' This is the best mother's day gift you gave me!!' knowing that Mother's day is round the corner this Sunday.
Seeing this made my day today.
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