AUBMC, Kelliye hospital

Written on oct 17 2012

AUBMC , الجامعه، مستشفى الكلية ،all these words represent one thing for me illness and death ! Although  many memories come up , births ,injuries ,accidents, emergencies, operations,regular appointments,  ...but still , anxiety is the main feeling that occupies my mind whenever i come  near the auh main entrance , just at the corner of marinian center my heart thumps, i like and dislike the AUH . I like it because it is one of the best medical centers in lebanon and the middleast, i donot like it because it is a hospital , and it represents illness and death to me , to me ,  it never  represented life , even though my grand children and one of my children were born there ! But to tell the truth it represents a passage to pass away , from life to another life !

My mom and her family and my paternal grandfather always refer " donot want to die in the keliye ! ", My mom and my maternal relatives also mentioned the same idiom "we donot like to go there and die there ! "

Yesterday my visit to the keliye was to visit martammo Sameera , new innovations are taking place the entrance , the floors , the design , but the second floor joining both wards of the center and overshaping the center makes a featured land mark .. The AUH main entrance ... The emergency door to the left and hospital door to the right ..here through the emergency door  Heba was rushed in , and so did mama and jiddo abukamal , mama and Heba were unconscious but jiddo was all aware he was dying and begged to be carried home so he would die peacefully there , but the family never realised that fact , they dismissed the idea of death away from their minds !  Hope ,   Hope ! 

The eighth floor seems deadly to me , dark colors  darken the family's heart even darker , one can feel angels hovering around the floor , true sickness represents patience but here all you see is tears and red eyes , visitors look worried , this floor i hope i never visit it again , it is the cancer treatment floor , but other floors also bring death to me but they are decorated with more hope in mind the cardiac unit floor the fifth floor  where mama, kalo fuad and others passed away , the sixth floor is all colors and life but here heba was lying in the high rails bunk bed unconcious ,,,, however many kids were saved here , the seventh floor is the only floor where you here congratulations, smiles cover faces , true some worries  are present but at least it is the only floor representing life in the Keliye , babies , twins and singles cry their first Waaaa, and open their eyes for the first time in th seventh floor delivery suite , tears here are different than the tears just in the above floor , i wonder was it a voincidence that these two floors just above each other , here life begins and just one stairway  up it ends , real life goes like that ,  the keliye now has a new name AUBMC ,,, 

Even elevators were annovated , but they still bring the same old version to mind .....

The labs moved and some private clinics moved, the Keliye is now  bigger and bigger but it is still  is referred to as Jamaa hospital even though it is now AUBMC ...

All praise be to Allah for he gave us diseases and medications , true HE is the one  who cures but still we need the Keliye .