Visitors' Lounge

Hello everyone,

It's been a long time, I know, but topics don't come that easy to common people. You know there is a big difference between a writer and a non-writer. Again I apologize in advance for all grammatical and other errors I will make in following text. Kindly ignore the errors.

Every initiative to write such a blog comes from a real life experience, like I am sharing my experience here. And this experience is an unfortunate one, because going to such a place is not everyone's will but circumstances.

Visitors' lounge sees 60 to 70 people visit daily to meet their patients. Some close ones are already present there as they are the ones who have brought their respective spouse, their parents or their siblings. As their patients get treatment in ICU, they wait with wet eyes and dampened hope in visitors' lounge.  Everyone in the room is stranger except relatives. Relatives come, discuss the situation and go, leaving a group of distressed people behind. We know these close ones as "Attendants".

Attendants, who have come from distant places are impelled by the situation to stay together with other attendants, sharing feelings and emotions of each other and giving strength to each other. They share tears and happiness of other members of their newly formed group. Everybody, if not trying to console others, at least shares the same platform of emotions with others. On first day,  from morning to evening they have to do only one thing -  wait.

As the night arrives,  these Attendants take out their bedding and go to sleep. Some people who haven't brought any bedding try to sleep on  sofa,  some on floor. However, many of them don't sleep as they have to wake in wait of any news, good or bad, about their patients. And they may have to be awake in case doctor who is treating their patients may need their consent in case of an emergency. A consent will decide a doctor's treatment. He may have to perform an emergency surgery in night to save the patient.

In night visitors' lounge give shelter to 20 attendants. All sleeping to wake up to a new morning. They start their day with chores. And then some get their patients discharged and go back to their home happily, leaving group of other attendants in wait- when will they be happy like others?