Establishing friendships among my co-patients is different compared to nurses building friendships between themselves
Me and my co-patients at dialysis couldn't really make friends with one another because we only see each other three times per week with not much time to talk with one another. It is like less than being with with them in a bus commuting together because if we at least get together commuting inside a bus, then we can at least talk to each other for more than thirty minutes at least. But we arrive at the dialysis clinic using our own mode of transport whether it maybe via a car, a tricycle, an e-bike or whatever and then there will be no more time to talk to one another.
How could you establish friendship if you can't even be with one another for more than five minutes. Myself being an inherently shy individual and almost introvert because of my appearance, it is hard for me personally to have friends especially now that I am always at home and there isn't enough time to spend some time to other people like my former high school classmates who still longs to see me in person.
As for my nurses, they were the ones establishing lasting friendships because at least the can spend eight hours of work with one another everyday and the also take their meals together in one table. They sometimes go someplace to have a good time like sort of a team-building activities and going out to eat. That is why they would say that being a renal nurse is different because they would treat everyone like a family.
But in their perspective it really is like that, more than classmates in school would establish friendships but for patients we just go there with or without even having a good conversation time with one another because of the time being spent there in the treatment room is fast with the majority of time spending trying to sleep although you are free to talk to the nurses and your co-patients but not all the time especially if the nurses are busy or away and or your co-patient sleeping or watching something in their Smartphones.
For patients, one factor will dearly end friendships and that is if one would pass-away, then it will be one less friend to have because they will never comeback. But it will be an opportunity to make friends with the new ones which will replace the treatment schedule slot of the ones would pass-away for myriad of medical reasons. For most nurses, they will eventually have to go abroad or work elsewhere which is the only point that they will get far from their fellow nurses but the close friendship is there, the will just be physically apart.
Friendship is a big word for me because for me it has a deeper meaning, like being together most of the time, being there for one another in times of trouble not only in good times. That is why I only have less friends in my life for the reason that I missed establishing friendships where sometimes I was the one in fault for not nourishing it until it withers and die and my friends would shy away afterwards like a cloudless sky.
What fills my life is the presence of my loving family and the help and support of my brethren in church, they are always there for me although limited but I have all the support that I can get from them from what they can offer.
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