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很多年以前，父亲被诊断出患有晚期心脏病。永久性的残疾使他无法从事稳定的工作。父亲想做一些事情使自己忙碌起来，因此他志愿来到了当地的儿童医院。他喜欢孩子,那份工作对他来说很合适。他被安排陪同那些患有晚期病症或是严重疾病的孩子，涪他们聊天，玩耍。有时其中的一个孩子会因病死去，永远地离开他。每当这个时候，失去孩子的父母会悲痛欲绝，而父亲则告诉他们，他很快会和孩子在天堂相遇，所以在这些父母们到达天堂之前他会暂时照顾这些孩子的。父亲的话似乎真的缓解了这些父母的悲痛。 在父亲照顾的孩子中有一个小女孩，她患了一种极为罕见的病，脖子以下全部瘫痪。因为什么事都不能做，女孩非常沮丧。父亲决定尽力帮助她。他开始去她的病房看她，还带着颜料、画笔和纸张。他用支架将画纸撑好，将画笔放入口中，开始画画。整个过程他只有脑袋在晃动，双手一下都没用。他是想告诉女孩:看，只要下定决心，没有事情难得倒你。 终于，女孩开始用嘴来画画，她和父亲成了好朋友。不久，女孩出院了，因为医生找不到医治她的办法。父亲也由于生病暂时离开了儿童医院。一段时间过后，父亲病愈，再次回到医院工作。有一天，他正站在医院大厅的志愿服务台前，这时他注意到前门开了，进来的是那个曾经瘫痪的女孩,不同的是，这次，她是走进来的！她径直跑到父亲跟前，紧紧地抱住了他。女孩送给父亲一张用手画的画，画的下面写着:谢谢你帮助我走路！ 父亲经常说，有时候爱的力量比医生更强大。在收到女孩的画几个月之后，父亲离开了我们。他曾经爱过那所医院里所有的孩子。 You Can Do Anything Many years ago, my dad was diagnosed with a terminal heart condition. He was put on permanent disability and was unable to work at a steady job. He wanted to do something to keep himself busy, so he decided to volunteer at the local children hospital. My dad loved kids. It was the perfect job for him. He ended up working with the terminally and critically ill children. He would talk to them and play with them. Sometimes, he would lose one of his kids. In certain instances, he would tell the grieving parents of these children that he would soon be with their children in heaven and that he would take care of them until they got there. My dad’s assurances seemed to help parents with their grieving. One of his kids was a girl who had been admitted with a rare disease that paralyzed her from the neck down. She couldn’t do anything, and she was very depressed. My dad decided to try to help her. He started visiting her in her room, bringing paints, brushes and paper. He stood the paper up against a backing, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn't use his hands at all. Only his head would move. All the while he would tell her, see, you can do anything you set your mind to. Eventually, she began to paint using her mouth, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was discharged because the doctors felt there was nothing else they could do for her. My dad also left the children hospital for a little while because he became ill. Sometime later after my dad had recovered and returned to work, he was at the volunteer counter in the lobby of the hospital. He noticed the front door open. In came the little girl who had been paralyzed, only this time she was walking. She ran straight over to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave my dad a picture she had done using her hands. At the bottom it read： thank you for helping me walk. My dad would say sometimes love is more powerful than doctors, and my dad - who died just a few months after the little girl gave him the picture - loved every single child in that hospital. |
