At the sunyi corner of a tiny house that is almost insufficient in sunlight, a woman named Pearl who is familiarly greeted Muti accompanying a child with a petite body but bears heavy loads. Muti is not just a nurse, she is a paliative nurse.
Patialif is the treatment of focusing on improving the quality of living patients with serious or chronic diseases, especially those cannot be cured like cancer and HIV diseases.
The figure is as if the witness of life that slows towards the nation. He is present not to cure but also to ensure each second remaining in his patient's life is not filled by derita.
Tyas’s paliative nurse crosses the hallway of dense settlements of the population of the incorporation examines his patients in Jakarta.
The care of the Tyas paliative decreases the stairs in the dense settlement of the intestinal population examines the patient.
Since joining the Home Rachel Foundation (Rachel House) in 2021, Muti has become a living server for children with a disease that threats her lives. Although the sfour retreats as the fruit of his heart falls pain, but love and live calls bring him back at the end of 2024. In the spaces of the sunyi he presents not only bringing medications but also warmth, laughter, even simple chats that make the patient feels whole as humans, not just the treated body.
For her paliative is the art of presenting comfort in the middle of the wound. He hears more than the soothing as well as the intangible inner hull in the monitor screen. He understands not all pains can be injected analgesic but can be cured by the presence, empathy, and the trust that grows slowly. The patient is not afraid of the death of the world, they are only afraid of leaving the mother who will be alone, the brother who does not have a play friend, or feel guilty because it is not healed after all costs are sacrificed.
In addition to Muti there is also Tyas that chooses not to sprinkle nursing paths in general in managing patients in hospitals with limited time and tending to be formal. Tyas chooses to be a role that is more than just medical knowledge, but also a heart that is arguing and hands who are ready to grasp closely in the last seconds of a person’s life. For Tyas, paliative nurses are not only about listening to complaints but also listening to silence. Not only to treat pain but also treat hope.
The care of the Tyas paliative takes a visit to the patient's home.
The paliative care of Tyas examines his patients in Jakarta.
Each visit to the patient is not merely routine, but rather an inner fight. The children who are absent are not only patient but rather small friends who teach him the meaning of receiving and loving without the terms. Although their body is weak because of cancer or HIV, the smile of children remains a small light that fights his dark duka. Tyas knows their lives may not be long but can remain meaningful. Then she is fully present to play, laughing, crying, even moisturizing the chocolate of the child just to witness his eyes in a conversation.
Finally to keep the inner tranquility, Muti and Tyas has a small ritual for three minutes to do meditation before working. A sunyi pause that they benefit to empty the contents of the head and refill the liver. They also devote their heart to fellow other paliative nurses.
In the world that is often abai on a lively life, they also present like a small light that never turns on. There are no medals that they are looking for, only hope that at the end of the trip, there are no souls that feel alone. That’s how short of life can still be meaningful, can still be beautiful, can still be intact.
The paliative care of pearls accompany his patients when treatment in hospitals in Jakarta.
Pearl paliative care (canan) check the patient.
Photos and text: Rivan Awal Lingga
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The paliative care of pearls implements prayer in the Home Rachel Foundation (Rachel House), Jakarta.
The paliative care of Tyas crosses in front of the patient's fixture room in the Home Rachel Foundation (Rachel House).
A number of tools to check patients in the Home Rachel Foundation (Rachel House), Jakarta.
The oxygen tube located in the Home Rachel Foundation (Rachel House), Jakarta.
The treatment of Tyas's paliative is preparing to check the patient.
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