Those Annoying Humphers

OK, this is still a form of accusation. But I’m curious that my neighbours have tuberculosis a.k TB. And I’m a physician, but I can’t help it.

So here’s the story begins. Next to my house, which has been empty for years, is being renovated. Dunno who the new owner is. At the moment, there are just handymen only.

Well, each time I pass the house by, I’ve always heard someone coughs. The cough’s type ain’t typical miserable such us like “uhuk..uhukk..”, but it’s humph type such us like “ehem..ehem..”

Once or twice, it didn’t make a problem. I thought it was someone had caught a common bronchitis. But moreover, the humphers aren’t only one, but there have been two, even may be three. So if I pass by, there’s gotta be someone makes “ehem..” then followed by another one, “ehem..” then joined by someone else, “Ehem!”

It’s strange, coz I only hear those humph when I pass by. If I’m at my own house, I never hear those handymen cough. So I’m confused!

Even a tuberculosis dog deserves to be treated. Photo by http://johnwade.com

Honestly, if there’s only one person coughs, it’s not a big deal. But if two people or three cough in the same house, that will be a problem. Especially those people have been humphing for long time, probably it’s been three months or more. And they are so skinny. I’ve seen some of them smoking at the house’s yard. Those symptoms are really typical like clinical symptoms of a TB patient!

I wonder, why they don’t seek for help. Don’t they know that their neighbours are doctors? Our family puts no board name at house, coz we don’t intend our house to make a medical clinic. But if they just ask for help, at least a medical recommendation letter for X-Ray photo, we can help them. It’s miserable if they really suffer from TB but they’re not treated.

And it’s weird that, last week, a friend of mine visited me at my house, and then me and him were going out and walking, passed the renovated house. I tried to keep my ears, but I didn’t hear any humph, though I knew that those handymen were there. Was it coz they thought that I was dating with my boyfriend? Well, then what’s the correlation between assumes that the lady was dating with her boyfriend, and the sudden-relieving cough? Should I never pass by that house all alone, except my boyfriend accompanies me?

Coz it’s really annoying. I wanna call police coz I feel being abused. But I wonder how to make the report. I can’t write like this, “I condemn those handymen coz they cough everytime I pass them by.” What kinda law will be used to condemn them? Law for unpleasant action? That’s rubbish. Indonesian lawyers call it “pasal karet”.

Gosh..it really annoys me to pass by the renovated house alone. I don’t wanna make anybody cough, I’m not a vector of germs. Shall I report them to the police? Instead of unpleasant action, I’d rather report my suspicious mind that they have massal tuberculosis. So they may get treated.

(It’s not right. I shouldn’t report them to police. I shoulda report them to CDC..)

*CDC = Centre for Disease Control, institution which is responsible to quarantine people with communicating disease