We'd got up around a half past 5, with the hymns and devotional music wafting out of the loud speakers of the nearby temple. Lekha wished me many happy returns with a peck on my cheek accompanied with gifts! Today happens to be my birthday as per the Malayalam calendar. Padmakumar and Rema followed suit. We went through the chores and were ready well in time and had a nice breakfast of 'Puttum Kadalayum' along with bananas, brought from Ramachandrettan's backyard, nearby.
Before we boarded the Uber cab, there was a brief cake-cutting ceremony that was covered photographically. Sujith's cab dropped us at the Vyttila hub and we could board the 1015 hrs' air conditioned, low floor bus bound for Kozhikode. It was ideal for travel on this warm day and it was not cluttered but my happiness was short lived.
A few people, bound for Kottakkal, boarded the bus at the Nedumbasserry airport and they flooded the bus with a lot of luggage which clogged the passages of the bus. He was building a new house and there were a lot of electrical and electronic devices that had been bought.
We got off at Kunnamkulam and Sabish, the auto rickshaw driver, volunteered to take us through the final leg of our journey, to 'The Quarterdeck'. He helped us in getting packed veg lunches. Through the conversation, we came to know about his sad story.
Sabish is of 35 years of age with a badly damaged pancreas - from birth, diagnosed finally after a tortuous seventeen years! He used to suffer from frequent stomach cramps and the doctor attending him said that he was suffering from an ulcer and put him on pain killers. The young man suffered for a while till he was put on to his current doctor at the AIMS, Kochi.
It was there that he was diagnosed with a damaged pancreas and has been on treatment, for the last three years. He has accepted his medical condition stoically and given below are my observations of the case:-
* The family consists of his mother, his younger brother and his wife.
* He has decided not to marry as he was sure that he would be wasting a woman's life with his
problems.
* He can only take vegetarian food and doesn't crave for the ones that he can't indulge in.
* If and when pain pops up, he gets back to the hospital - "it's costly, sir!", he says.
* He drives the auto rickshaw so that he doesn't get to brood and is able to meet different people.
* He's cheerful and talkative that no-one would feel that he's badly sick!
My take.
Sabish, you're yet another hero of mine from today. The manner in which you remain calm and positive minded, the people who are fortunate to interact with you - like Lekha and I were, this afternoon - leave you on a positive note.
God, please take care of this tough youngster and I sincerely pray that he has my years added on to his, because I want him to succeed! He's surely a role model worth emulation and the charmful thing is that he is completely unmindful of his charm!!
Tailpiece.
The unpacking was done systematically, took our forty winks to shed off the tiredness. Lekha, even went to the nearby department store to fetch fresh provisions.
Before we boarded the Uber cab, there was a brief cake-cutting ceremony that was covered photographically. Sujith's cab dropped us at the Vyttila hub and we could board the 1015 hrs' air conditioned, low floor bus bound for Kozhikode. It was ideal for travel on this warm day and it was not cluttered but my happiness was short lived.
A few people, bound for Kottakkal, boarded the bus at the Nedumbasserry airport and they flooded the bus with a lot of luggage which clogged the passages of the bus. He was building a new house and there were a lot of electrical and electronic devices that had been bought.
We got off at Kunnamkulam and Sabish, the auto rickshaw driver, volunteered to take us through the final leg of our journey, to 'The Quarterdeck'. He helped us in getting packed veg lunches. Through the conversation, we came to know about his sad story.
Sabish is of 35 years of age with a badly damaged pancreas - from birth, diagnosed finally after a tortuous seventeen years! He used to suffer from frequent stomach cramps and the doctor attending him said that he was suffering from an ulcer and put him on pain killers. The young man suffered for a while till he was put on to his current doctor at the AIMS, Kochi.
It was there that he was diagnosed with a damaged pancreas and has been on treatment, for the last three years. He has accepted his medical condition stoically and given below are my observations of the case:-
* The family consists of his mother, his younger brother and his wife.
* He has decided not to marry as he was sure that he would be wasting a woman's life with his
problems.
* He can only take vegetarian food and doesn't crave for the ones that he can't indulge in.
* If and when pain pops up, he gets back to the hospital - "it's costly, sir!", he says.
* He drives the auto rickshaw so that he doesn't get to brood and is able to meet different people.
* He's cheerful and talkative that no-one would feel that he's badly sick!
My take.
Sabish, you're yet another hero of mine from today. The manner in which you remain calm and positive minded, the people who are fortunate to interact with you - like Lekha and I were, this afternoon - leave you on a positive note.
God, please take care of this tough youngster and I sincerely pray that he has my years added on to his, because I want him to succeed! He's surely a role model worth emulation and the charmful thing is that he is completely unmindful of his charm!!
Tailpiece.
The unpacking was done systematically, took our forty winks to shed off the tiredness. Lekha, even went to the nearby department store to fetch fresh provisions.
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