It was a Thursday evening, a tiring and 2000 hrs back home day.
As I made a usual call to my home, I wasn’t responded as sometimes happened during heavy rains in the town, so I called to my father’s mobile phone. As usual I wanted to speak to my mother. I was said that she was with the doctor for a blood pressure checkup. I hung up saying I’d call back later to speak to her.
An hour later I called back as said. Only then I was told that she was hospitalized and was not allowed to speak for the next few days, the reason, she was having a really high blood pressure.
Worried and already out of time to catch the train, I could do nothing but sit and pray that she gets well soon. How can I forget the way she took care of me when I was hospitalized because of a very bad food poisoning. I still remember I went so weak, almost dying, and not even able to raise my hand to fold up the sleeve. I saw death I can say, eight grueling days under hospitalization. She held my hand and took me the bath room and waited till I came out to take me back to my bed. Even removed the saline and put it back, sat by the bed all night for all those days. And my father was patient enough to take care of the house, his eldest daughter just a month away from her motherhood and my out of the mind words.
That same night she was shifted to the ICU, and I and the rest of the family (my two sisters) was unaware of it. I was about to leave and father said, everything is fine now and I need not be there.
I wonder how my father alone managed his office, his sick wife and preparations for his daughter’s marriage. And my mother should have really been brave to come out of it. And still get back to job after a day at home after she was said to go back to home and rest.
She says she is fine now and my father too.
But me, both my elder sisters who treated her to be a good person to share the unspoken heart with, are now afraid that she would not probably be able to take it, for now even she had gone weak at her heart.
It feels so bad to see a loving lady like her like that, but the Almighty is great enough that she is fine and both my mother and my father could manage things without much difficulty.
I miss her badly. And I can’t imagine without both of them.
Thanks to Him.
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