Verbatim report 2

Reported to: Dr. Ezamo Murry Reported by: Bijen Singha Name: x Education: B.D Religion: Christianity Language used: English Problem: sickness Reported on: 31/8/11 Sex:Male Marital status/age: Single/ 26 Place: Hostel room, ETC Time taken: 1 hour

Introduction I heard that my friend was sick. So I visited his room to have some chitchats. And I was feeling sorry for him as he missed the class.

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Hi! How are you? Yes, I am fine, thanks! What about you? Fine, thank you! I heard that you are not feeling well. Yeah, I have fever from the last few days. Have you met doctor? Yeah, I met and he gave me some tablets. But it is getting better now. Are you feeling some headache? Yeah, but the main problem is my body. I feel very heavy and I dont feel like eating, and move around. Thats why I did not turn up in the class also. I see! Who shares story this morning?( in tribal theology class, two persons from the class are asked to share the tribal story or myth or history) X shares about the story of monkey. It was very interesting. Actually, I dont want to miss the class but I felt very weak. May be, because of medicine. Yeah, doctor told me to take injection also. But I was scared of injection. So I refused it and take tablets instead. Moreover, it is not a major case. So you are scared of injection? laughing Yeah, I am really scared of injection. If I am asked to choose to take thousands of tablets or injection, I would definitely choose tablets. I can take all the tablets given to me. But no way for injection if it is not a major case. Yeah, there are also some people who prefer injection to medicine. Yeah, I dont really understand such people. And we have to spend more money for injection. But if we take medicine, it would be lesser. Nowadays, I am running shortage of money. And there are a lot of things to do. Yeah

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The only problem taking tablet is that it makes our mouths bitter. Now also, you see my mouth is very bitter. I dont feel like eating because of that. But you should eat something. Or may be like some drinks. Yeah, but I dont feel like eating anything. I only want to drink water and tea. But the college tea is not good. It is just like hot water. It is because of colour, it looks like tea or same as hot water with some sugar. Yeah What about you, you like it? But there are some people who like have this college tea better than other. It is very funny, right? Yes, people are different. I want to attend the class. I am getting worried if the attendance is not up to the requirement. So you are worried about your attendance? Yeah, the faculties are very strict in attendance here, in my previous college, attendance was nothing but just to know if the students are fine. But here, they would not understand students problem. If anyone is absent for five days. They will not allow us to write exam. Thats why we have to be very careful. Whether you are sick or not it does not matter but your attendance is important. They often say that five marks are for attendance. In some way it is good, it will help us in our grade. So you think it is good? Yeah, in some way. I think they want the students to be punctual and be discipline. Yeah, it may be true. In UTC also, faculties would see every steps that students take and they will give marks according to that. That is what I was told. Yes, sometimes they would think that students dont care or take serious in their study. So that is also a good way to discipline the students. But it should not be in the case of sick and something like that. Umm But if it is in case of long sickness and not able to attend the class for many days, it is ok. So you feel that it is not good? Not like that also, but they should at least see the situation. Yeah! It is like saying you should not sick. Yeah! Really, we are not sick because we want to but it is all depend on our health. And nobody wish to feel sick. Did you take leave? No, if I take leave also, it will be no use. It will be

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marked as absent only. So I dont like to take leave. I hope I will be able to attend the class by tomorrow. Yeah, lets hope so. You know, I like to attend the class even if I am not writing notes. There is no use of staying in the room for nothing. But I was so weak, thats why. Yeah, after all we have come to learn something. Yeah, sometimes, I am getting angry on my health. Every year, in this time I usually get sick. I just dont know what to do with this. Every year? Yeah, I can say that. And it has never been serious, but just a low fever. And if I take medicine and it makes bitter in my mouth again. It is really ridiculous. Yeah, it becomes a problem when we dont feel like eating. If we dont take medicine, our health will go bad to worse again. There is always problem you know. And if our health is getting worse, then we will have to wait for one year to complete our study. Ops.. life is really difficult. Again we have to spend money huh? Yeah, you are right. Anyway I am getting better now and hope to attend the class by tomorrow. Thats good. Did lecture ask about me? Yeah, your roommate or someone says that you are not feeling good. I told my roommate to say so. I see! So how is your study? Preparing for exam? No, I have not started. Time is there. Yeah, but it will be difficult if we start at the last moment. Yeah, but I feel very lazy these days. Everyone is like that, not only you. Yeah, anyway take care of yourself! Oh.. yeah thanks anyway for visiting. Please continue to pray for me. Ok? Sure! I will do that. Bye Thanks! Come again. Ok?

Conclusion: It had a wonderful experience with my friend who is sick. And I also understand that the sick needs people to be around him. Because the sick often feel loneliness in such situation and thinks that people do not care about him.