Being Any Kind Of A "carer" Is Such A Huge Privileged, Unfortunately Not All Are Appreciated, This Man Was!!

[RATTER15]

http://www.metaspoon.com/chloe-father-refused-daughter-walk-aisle/?fb=111e1d5599a0

[mallyh]

i can hardly see to type through the tears .what a lovely outcome to an awful story .

[seadogg]

Wow! some of us carers have it easy by comparison.

[RATTER15]

^^^^^ Totally agree with both comments!!

[Mamyalynne]

Beautiful.

[gness]

I hope I'm around to see the video of it happening...just lovely....x

[Retrochic]

The 'carer' is a Doctor, a Cancer Specialist doing his job. Why make him any more special than the hundreds if not thousands of Cancer specialists that deal with this sort of thing day in and day out without the need for youtube and lots of blubbering. If dealing with children with Cancer reduces him to a tearfull jelly hardly able to speak then I'm afraid he's probably not in the right profession.

[gness]

C'mon, Retro...there is obviously more than we saw in that video...

I've had the misfortune to have contact with hundreds of paid "carers" in a medical situation.

There are very, very few I would give the title of true carer too......this guy would be one.....he doesn't just give the care he's paid to give......he really cares...and sadly that's rare..........x

[Mamyalynne]

He was well able to speak and who wouldn't be moved by the actions of the father.


The day that those who care for our sick children become cold and unmoved is not one I want to see.

[Retrochic]

gness I can understand your comment, but to me a Dr. is not a 'Carer'. To me a 'Carer' is someone who looks after someone and gies them day to day care often for no remuneration if they are family. A Dr. is a professional paid to diagnose and treat a patient. Do you not think there is a difference?

[RATTER15]

Retrochic, what a dreadful attitude, so you think that anybody who shows compassion is not suitable for care work! I find that very sad indeed.

So all carers need to have a heart of stone. I suggest you never go into care work of any kind!!

[gness]

No......there are doctors and nurses who do their jobs....and there are doctors and nurses who do their jobs and who really care....

Believe me, Retro.....there is a difference and when you are possibly dying that difference counts...x

[RATTER15]

I have always said there are two types of "carers"

Those that care for...

and those that care about...

I know both kinds, and its the later ones that get my respect!

[Retrochic]

Ratter you are cherry picking my comments to prove your point. My point being that thousands of carers and doctors deal with this sort of thing on a daily basis and don't feel the need to make a video about it. I did not say that anyone who is showing any compassion should not be a doctor or a carer -how ridiculous! I said I don't think a video should be made of it and in this particular case the Dr. seemed totally over-emotional and in fact a bit emotionally unstable.

[gness]

Oh...I thought the video was about the generous and heartwarming gesture the dad made....not about the care he'd given.

[RATTER15]

Like I said.... "I suggest you never go into care work of any kind!!"

[RATTER15]

Exactly gness!

[gness]

Oh good! Had to have another look, Ratter...in case I had the wrong end of the stick again....☺

No....the medic was emotional about the dad's gesture......I should think the care he gave was professional.....and very caring in every sense of the word.....x

[Retrochic]

well going back to the Dad the only aspiration he has for his daughter is to walk her down the isle -why not 'will she graduate from University'? Just a silly over emotional video from the USA advertising there private childrens hospital.

[Retrochic]

ratter -if one of the members in my family had cancer I would want a professional caring doctor looking after them, not a mentally unstable one that feels the need to make videos (advertising his private hospital)

[Retrochic]

gness wrote: No....the medic was emotional about the dad's gesture....

no -he was choking up when he was remembering how she was diagnosed with a brain tumour on Christmas Eve.