Would you call this consideration?
By vanny
@vandana7 (101682)
India
October 8, 2015 11:59pm CST
Seriously. Sometimes human beings shock me out of my wits.
My new maid's son underwent appendicitis operation.
This happened about 4 days ago.
They have had 30 visitors since then.
Now my new maid is so exhausted with hospital duties and guests most of who stay overnight that she is sick!
But this is not something that is exclusively associated with maids though they have larger families.
Even rich folks get one visitor too many when they are sick.
What more, the person who is sick sort of keeps a register in mind who visited them and did not when they were sick. lol
You tell me whether you would like to rest or greet folks?
You tell me whether you would like your care giver to get rest or spend time giving something or the other to visitors?
I mean height of it...I give up ...I am an alien.
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@vandana7 (101682)
• India
9 Oct 15
Funny, how people don't realize that they are adding to the problem. It is double draining of resources for the poor lady. After all, she has to cook for all of them. I would rather organize a round of sending food over so that the lady is relieved. Local relatives should be doing that.
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
9 Oct 15
It's nice to know that people care to visit you when you're sick, but...staying overnight? I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with that.
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@vandana7 (101682)
• India
10 Oct 15
@cahaya1983 ..yeah hospital bills would mount too. 
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
10 Oct 15
@vandana7 I'd probably take a little longer to recover in that case.
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@buddha3 (1026)
• India
9 Oct 15
It's the same in other circumstances as well. When we know that someone has lost the job or failed in a relationship, but we are very eager to contact them in such situations on the pretext of providing consolation!! I personally feel that unless you are too close to that person, you should refrain from doing it. Maybe after a considerable length of time, you may take up the issue to know what really happened.
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@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
11 Oct 15
Yeah, we are just too socialized and feel entitled to drain the host...
I am pretty nasty when I am sick, and mind you I am nasty with relatives anyway, so it would not be good for them to come visit me. Recently I had a very bad patch and someone came... I am going to pay for my conduct in upcoming family function I think!
If it's not me who's sick then I don't know how I would end this influx. Quite mild that way.
@Rollo1 (16677)
• Boston, Massachusetts
9 Oct 15
In a case like that you expect immediate family and maybe some of the son's friends. Sick people are best left to rest. Send a nice card, make a phone call, buy them a crossword puzzle book or a video game to while away the time. But stay home and let them heal.
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@marguicha (226084)
• Chile
9 Oct 15
Sick people should have a small amount of visitors or they will wear the ill person down
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
9 Oct 15
A phone call is good many a times. If not, and I can visit, I will definitely go during visiting hours and return back to home (if in my town). In case I am in their town, I would prefer to stay at either the Hotels or even at some one else's place (if anyone is willing).
I offered my cousin and his father that I would stay at the Hospital one night and they could stay at my place, when my aunt was ailing and misdiagnosed to have some brain tumor (and if your recall, that was about 3 years back).
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