Dear, Soul!!
Alzheimer's
Fauzi returned to his feet after the taxi carrying his wife passed. Very heavy step Fauzi, there is a lack of preparation to hear and accept the facts that will be spoken by the doctor to him later.
Fauzi walked over while contemplating. The distance from his place and the room of the doctor who had previously examined Salwa was not far away. But he took longer to arrive because his footsteps were so slow with the inner turmoil that was storming him.
Fauzi tapped softly, and entered with heavy strides after getting permission from the owner of the room.
The doctor who had previously used snelli without the identifier, had just changed his doctor's suit to another. The snelli he used now had his name on his left chest and his specialist department on his right chest.
Fauzi realized one thing, that the doctor who has the title Sp.N was deliberately hiding his identity from his wife, considering that Salwa will know that he is being treated by a Neurologist or neurologist, if he uses a snelli with a full identifier.
Fauzi is increasingly aware of the problems that are happening to his wife. Although he does not know what type of disease is currently plaguing his wife, but he can already guess that his wife is suffering from a serious illness, seen from the doctor who handled it.
“Ja-so, how is the condition of my wife doc?”
Fauzi asked even though from the bottom of his heart, he refused to hear an answer he did not want.
The doctor breathed for a moment.
“We found beta-amyloid protein in the blood test results of the father's wife. Although we are still waiting for the results of the MRI test, but I began to be able to give you an idea of what is happening to your wife now”
“Ja-so my wife??”
“Previously, my wife was examined by another doctor. He's not a neurologist, he's a general practitioner. Yes it is natural that the father's wife checked herself with a general practitioner, because as you know, the father's wife always thought that she was just exhausted and lost concentration temporarily. His wife was not aware of the things that were happening to him. However, responding to the father's wife's complaint at the initial examination, the general practitioner eventually handed the father's wife as a patient to me. And I have to hide my identity as a neurologist, because for this stage your wife can still know things like what kind of patient I should handle”
Fauzi still does not understand, where the doctor talks. But he did not deny and just listened.
“At the initial examination, I began to test the memory ability of my father's wife, and the ability to remember her was already impaired, only she assumed that it was only part of her who was exhausted to difficult concentration. But the more he broke into the story, he began to discuss something impossible. He told me about things that happened 3 years ago, but he assumed it had only happened yesterday. He justifies things that are not right, and things that are not rational. She started experiencing delusi”
“De-delusion?”
“Yes, thoughts that do not correspond to reality. He hallucinated and twisted his memory on the past events”
The doctor explains step by step before revealing his diagnosis.
“She has trouble sleeping, and her eyesight is also impaired. He was looking for items that he had routinely placed in certain places. He could not think of any more detailed objects he wanted to use. Even he was confused in the morning, and did not know what to do, while his daily life in the morning was cooking”
The doctor spelled out all his analysis of everything Salwa had told him.
“And today, he told me that he was lost. He had difficulty knowing the location, even though it was a place he often visited. And other things, like him having trouble with the numbers. Besides the difficulty of remembering your daughter's age, she also can't even guess your daughter's age, even when I've mentioned your daughter's birth year. He lost his counting ability, whereas he was a pharmacist who had a high calculation rate”
Fauzi recalled the things that had happened to his wife lately.
“And other things you've seen today. The father's wife did an MRI, even when I didn't give her any further explanation of what happened to her. He also lost his rational mind, part of him just complied with it for not being able to express his rebuttal”
“Ja-so my wife hurts what doc?”
“Alzheimer”
“Alz.. Alz?? What?”?
“Alzheimer”
“What kind of disease is it?”
“How yet? Doctor mean?”
“What is happening to my father's wife at this time, is the early stages of Alzheimer's. There will be a next stage that further aggravates the situation. At present, the father's wife has a decline in memory, often feels confused, feels lost in a place that he often passes, does not refute because of the difficulty of composing the sentence, and the, asked me the thing I just said and he doesn't even know common things like traffic light color”
Fauzi. What happened to his wife right now was so bad for him, and the doctor said it was just the beginning? What else will happen to his wife.
“There will be a time later, where the father's wife can not remember the father, his daughter, his family even himself, he forgot all things, there is no one left in his memory. In the final stages, he lost his survival ability. He will not be able to move like everyone else in general. He is no longer able to perform normal activities due to loss of memory regarding the stages of performing daily activities. Like bathing, eating, urinating and all the usual daily things done. He could even lose his speaking ability”
Unknowingly, Fauzi shed tears. What the doctor just told you about his wife is a very painful thing.
“Azheimer's sufferers generally have two types. Sufferers who are aware of changes in themselves, or he who cannot realize himself so that the surrounding people are aware of changes in his behavior. For the case of your wife, we can see that she is not aware of her condition, and it is the people around her who feel her behavior change”
Fauzi was silent, his mind still constantly wanting to reject what the doctor said.
“Because of this, I hid the truth that happened to my father's wife. Alzheimer's patient, when he realizes he is suffering from Alzheimer's, he will withdraw from his environment so that we will have difficulty to help him survive and be able to remember the events that exist in his life”
“A-what should I do doc..”
“Help him to survive. Often discuss the events that have happened in his life, guide him to keep doing activities like usual”
“Drug, is there no treatment that can be done so that my wife can recover?”
The doctor shook his head slowly, making Fauzi's cornea widen to receive the doctor's answer.
“Until now, not a single case of Alzheimer's patient can be cured. There is no cure for Alzheimer's. The drugs given to Alzheimer's patients are just drugs that help slow Alzheimer's down to the final stage. Only drugs that help patients to survive longer, and memacuh in order to keep doing daily activities”
“Ma-meaning doctor?? Is-my wife.”
“We are very sorry for not being able to do anything for this”
“Operation? Graft or something. Not that the medical world now can even clone a human, can make an artificial heart. There must be a way to cure Alzheimer”
“We also deeply regret this Sir. Until now, researchers are still struggling to find and prevent cure for Alzheimer's patients, but there is really no cure or way to cure Alzheimer's patients.”
“Ti-impossible..impossible.”.
“Pak.”
“What does this mean, my wife will not recover??”
The doctor nodded slowly.
Fauzi's tears began to wet his cheeks, he did not care about the doctor's view of him.
“Doctor. please double-check my wife. Please check again, the doctor may have mistaken it. And again, the results of his MRI tests are also not out.”
“I also very much hope that what I am saying is not true sir. But you can see for yourself what the condition of the father's wife is currently”
The eyes that had previously only glazed, then the tears that began to drip until finally the cry broke. Fauzi's thoughts and feelings were inexplicably shattered, an immense pain was hitting his heart at this moment.
The doctor was silent. Give Fauzi time to vent all his pain. Yes, anyone in Fauzi's position, obviously this is a very difficult thing to accept
