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| Bindiya as she gets ready for Operation |
Friday: It is fare morning, soon going to turn into
nightmare morning. The heat was fare enough, that is, not unbearably hot, but
hot enough to give feeling of summer. Morning was warm, but sunlight put the
dash of heavy summer in our living room. Dhwani’s progress towards motherhood
is satisfactory, she is fully enjoying this phase and we all are anxiously
waiting for news. In short things were moving at fairly good pace, in desired
direction. But then when is life so predictable?
Today Mummy and Kashyap are sitting and chatting on one
sofa. Nowadays he is preparing to be a good father, hence no late nights,
getting up early in morning etc. Bindiya in her standard swinging style, moving
gracefully and slowly came out of her room at one end of living room and moved
towards her day time sofa. Kashyap asked her to join them, she corrected her
direction by taking two steps in other sofa’s direction and sat next to Kashyap.
Bindiya has capacity to sit straight for 10 – 15 minutes only, so after few
minutes she stood up to return to sofa just few paces away and lie down. From
kitchen entrance I saw this scene taking place in fraction of second.
She took one step forward, her balance swayed a bit, as
usual nothing alarming. To correct her balance, she tried to take support of
chair on her right side, which was unfortunately six inches away from her
reach. Her feet folded, she crashed down on her left side, falling on her hip
bone, hitting her head gently on floor as Kashyap’s instinct took over and he
was beside her, just in nano second as she touched floor. In editing language
it appeared as fast cut, one frame she was down and second frame Kashyap was
next to her. It took me one step to reach her. She was bleeding from her head
wound.
Immediate Kashyap lifted her, made she lie down on sofa. Ice
was applied on head to stop bleeding. I checked her for any other damage. She
was not in pain so with relief I said, “She is Ok, no fracture.” How wrong I
was. No pain is not a correct indicator.
Just to set aside any nagging worry about her fracture, we
called portable fracture machine. The X ray guy gave first inclination of
coming challenge. “I am not sure, but there seems to be hair thin line fracture. You will need MRI to confirm it.”
This statement started our uphill task of bring Bindiya back to her feet. In
short, after consulting three surgeons, who said, ‘Surgery is necessary, but in
her case not advisable. But Dr Punkaj Jindal, said you will not be able to take
care for 2 months without damaging her fractured leg and pushing yourself for major - risky emergency operation. So take chance and get
her operated. He is very blunt, shoots like gun, straight.
This week ended with this bleak – most tension filled
episode to another more depressing, tension filled week. Something, which was
unavoidable, but filled with minefields of decision making from many point of
views.
by P G Dodeja
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