One day of the last year my 9 yo son Pablito broke his forearm, both ulna and radius, while he was playing football. He was admitted in the children's hospital "Hospital del Niño Jesús" in Madrid to have his fractures fixed by inserting two intramedular wires. I will never forget my son's face looking at me from the floor while he was holding his bended forearm, but this disgrace brought me into a new world: the world of the smiling people.
There are two main guidelines in that hospital: children can't suffer not an ounce more than they do because of their physical problems, and, what really surprised me the most, parents can't suffer not an ounce more than they do because of their children's problems.
Every single person at the Hospital treated us as if we were the only suffering people in the whole world. Everything was kindness, simpathy and affection.
From the surgeon, that gave us every explanation about what he was going to do during the operation and sent twice a nurse out to tell us how the things were going, to the anesthesist that told us before the operation what kind of methods she was going to use and their effects on Pablo.
The permanently smiling nurses, the incredibly friendly janitors, the Red Cross volunteers that come everyday to the hospital to stay with the kids if their parents need to go out. The actors and clowns that do a show for the kids twice a day in the hospital's little theatre.
Everybody. Everybody there lives a life of Truth and Giving, so far from the business world in which most of us need to fight and lie everyday.
I also want to mention Jolanta. She is Camill's mother. Camill is a Polish 13 yo boy that suffers spina bifida. Jolankta and her family live in Spain since 10 years ago. When Camill was born , Jolanta and her husband couldn't get enough medical attention in Poland as money was a factor.
They investigated public heathcare in every single country in Europe and finally they chosed Spain, where Social Security assistance is universal and free if you have a regular working situation and you pay your taxes. They left all behind in Krakaw and came here. They fight hard to find their jobs and get a regular situation to have Camill properly attended.
Camill has suffered 15 operations along his short life but he is clever and nice. He smiles all the time and everybody in the hospital loves him. Jolanta, who spends about 3 months a year inside the hospital with Camill, is one of the most nice, strong, brave and beautiful human being I've ever met.
