well..i was going to chennai the other day. at kalpakkam, i was lucky to get a car. The car driver is supposed to go to chennai, so he picks up people up on the way and asks for a nominal tab. so that day i was sitting along with the driver in the front, and there were two old men and one old lady sitting at the back. When i say old, they were say probably in their mid fifties.
so this lady was telling her story to the other two men...
and i was overhearing their conversation as i had nothing else to do...
this lady's husband is in dubai...
and she said...her daughter is not well...
it sounded like a skin disease...
then she said...her daughter had a skin disease...that turned into a boil...that swelled...and became a big infection and it had to be operated on.
even though they had taken her to hospital within two days of seeing the infections...it boiled down to an operation.
First the fess of the hospital were high...25000rs per day in the icu.....worse the docter asked the girl to be shifted to his clinic so that he could take care of better...meaning...he could earn more money...
in short the opration costed her 8 lakhs..
somehow when she was speaking...the way she was speaking...i thought she was showing of her wealth rather than trying to garner sympathy or find consolation for her suffereing....the icu costed this much...the medicine costed that much..the operation costed this much and so on....
however...sometimes people hide their pain behind the pride...and i have seen it in my friend.....and i was seeing in this lady....
it turned out that the lady has two daughters. The elder daughter was normal till she was 10 or 11...but one fine day...she did not return from school. when they searched for her, they found her lying in the corner of the school....she had changed...she was mentally affected...and till date she is like that.....she cant do a single thing herself....even routine work like...taking bath...attending to nature's call....she cant do it herself.....only this lady has to help her daughter. they tried putting her daughter in an asylum....but then they thought its better to have her daughter with themselves than to be at the mercy of strangers.
the daughter is 31 now...and still...she cant take care of herself...for even few minutes...
the second daughter was also like that...but she is cured and is happily married...
but the elder daughter...no cure...
they have spent huge amount for her cure...but to no avail...
they even pleaded with the doctor to administer euthansia...but the doctor said...they save life and not take lives....
and this lady...she was yearning...literally....that her daughter somehow dies....so that all of them will be relieved of their sufferings....
