…While dehydrated boatman improves at K.H.M.H.

The next patient we visited at the hospital did not require financial aid, only a bit of human kindness. Today News Five’s Jacqueline Woods found Oswald Cadogan in far better shape than when she first encountered him on Tuesday.

Janelle Chanona, Reporting
Seventy-six year old Oswald Cadogan better known as ?Ozzie? is recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he collapsed on the tugboat Pioneer where he had worked for the past three decades. Presently he is being treated for dehydration, although he may also be suffering from other ills.

Oswald Cadogan, Hospitalised
?Oh yes, oh yes. I believe tomorrow I will be walking, I believe so… because today when I got up, I tried to stand up [and I] couldn?t mek it. I had to hold on then mek one and two steps, but afterwards in the walking I get kinda weak, so I sit down back.?

On Tuesday, Cadogan was found in dire straits lying on the vessel, unable to move. Cadogan has difficulty remembering what happened to him, but he said earlier that morning he started feeling bad and had stopped to talk with a group of men he knew who were concerned about his health.

Oswald Cadogan
?They asked me how I feel, I tell them bwai, I noh feel too good you know, but I said I am here to fight and I decided to fight that.?

Cadogan has struggled for most of his life trying to make ends meet. He does not like to speak about his family and their strained relationship, nor about the people he says took advantage of him when he was on the streets. An emotional Cadogan says it has been hard.

Oswald Cadogan
(Crying) ?Them people out yah chancey.?

Jacqueline Woods
?A lot of people tek chance a you??

Oswald Cadogan
?Oh yes. Only because I noh talk, you know. I noh talk, I just let the thing go pass, and I just laugh it off. But inna my heart, it stay up yah… (points to head) and I invite that to another movement apart from the other movement of my life, serious thing.?

Hospital officials say at least one of their patient?s family members has expressed an interest in taking Cadogan home. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.