I'd got a call in the evening from my classmate and friend, Mohanachandran. He's an accomplished veterinary surgeon and we chat over various issues as and when time permits. Today, he was inquiring about Lekha's impending surgery and it was then that he'd opened up about a string of shocking events that had befallen him over the last few weeks. His story accentuates two things:-
(a) when ill luck comes, it comes in legions and
(b) if your life is in danger and you've a pet, then the pet takes in the threat so that you're safe!
It all began when he and his wife had gone to New Delhi to attend his nephew's wedding, some time early last month. The day after the celebrations, they'd taken off for a sight seeing trip to Agra. The morning fog had not lifted off completely when a school bus rammed their vehicle from behind. The person sitting closest to the point of impact was Manju, his wife. She wasn't feeling quite well and had her head on her lap, trying to catch up on her forty winks and because she was in that posture, the broken shreds of glass and mangled metal did not affect her at all! The group was thoroughly enveloped in a pall of gloom and to shake off the blues, pressed on with their mission in another vehicle provided by the company of the impacted car.
Around the same time, back in his home at Kazhakkuttam, Thiruvananthapuram a chilling event was taking place. Their six year old Labrador, Rocky, was fighting a losing battle with a cobra that had crept into the compound and succumbed to his injuries soon after. Lekha and me are familiar with Rocky, because he was a pup that Mohanachandran was keen to gift us when we're still mourning our Bruno's passing away. He'd, when we saw him for the first time, splints on his right paw because of a fracture that he'd sustained!
Mohanachandran, on return, had seen a gaping hole burrowed from under his compound wall by a bandicoot and was trying to cover it with mud when something bit him but he didn't give it much of a thought then. Towards evening, his leg had begun to grow numb and it was then that he realised that he could have been bitten by the bandicoot. With analytical thinking and his experience as a seasoned vet, he'd gone to the hospital and had undergone a course of anti-rabies vaccine and pulled himself out of possible danger!
He's yet to get out of his agony of having lost Rocky but consoles himself by saying that Manju is safe because of him! I tried to console him though I was aware that only time could heal his discomfort!!
Damn glad that both of them are safe!
Tailpiece.
RIP, Rocky. Your noble deed shall always remain evergreen within us. My tears and prayers!
(a) when ill luck comes, it comes in legions and
(b) if your life is in danger and you've a pet, then the pet takes in the threat so that you're safe!
It all began when he and his wife had gone to New Delhi to attend his nephew's wedding, some time early last month. The day after the celebrations, they'd taken off for a sight seeing trip to Agra. The morning fog had not lifted off completely when a school bus rammed their vehicle from behind. The person sitting closest to the point of impact was Manju, his wife. She wasn't feeling quite well and had her head on her lap, trying to catch up on her forty winks and because she was in that posture, the broken shreds of glass and mangled metal did not affect her at all! The group was thoroughly enveloped in a pall of gloom and to shake off the blues, pressed on with their mission in another vehicle provided by the company of the impacted car.
Around the same time, back in his home at Kazhakkuttam, Thiruvananthapuram a chilling event was taking place. Their six year old Labrador, Rocky, was fighting a losing battle with a cobra that had crept into the compound and succumbed to his injuries soon after. Lekha and me are familiar with Rocky, because he was a pup that Mohanachandran was keen to gift us when we're still mourning our Bruno's passing away. He'd, when we saw him for the first time, splints on his right paw because of a fracture that he'd sustained!
Mohanachandran, on return, had seen a gaping hole burrowed from under his compound wall by a bandicoot and was trying to cover it with mud when something bit him but he didn't give it much of a thought then. Towards evening, his leg had begun to grow numb and it was then that he realised that he could have been bitten by the bandicoot. With analytical thinking and his experience as a seasoned vet, he'd gone to the hospital and had undergone a course of anti-rabies vaccine and pulled himself out of possible danger!
He's yet to get out of his agony of having lost Rocky but consoles himself by saying that Manju is safe because of him! I tried to console him though I was aware that only time could heal his discomfort!!
Damn glad that both of them are safe!
Tailpiece.
RIP, Rocky. Your noble deed shall always remain evergreen within us. My tears and prayers!
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