When death came home to her first born son she knew it before anyone else did. All day she panicked - shouting and urging them to close all the doors and windows . "Dont let them in, the bad ones are trying to come in ". she kept repeating .But they hushed her. Afterall the son was so ill . The same evening he died---only then they realised that she knew that death was coming today.
- much before her son went she had been diagnosed for dementia and then the doctors had proclaimed Alziemer disease. Though she could not hug and console her son because the disease had made her bed ridden and in articulate --- but she knew when the hands of death were entering the house ---to take away her son. She only wanted them to close all the doors .Stop death from taking her son away.But they never closed the windows and doors.
Now five years later , the doctors have pronounced her condition to have worsened. --a vegetable like existence they all say it is . Two attendents do all the chores for her.
Now her husband has gone , but she bid him goodbye . While he was battling for his life in the hopital she was at home in delirium ( so the attendents agreed) .She was goading them to go and open the back door " Babu ji wants to come in". They did nothing but reassure her, told her babuji was in the hospital and could not come.They did not know he had died --but she knew .He had come to say good bye.
The heart knows ! even if the brain cannot tell.
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Dear Priti,
fear of illness , fear of death,
all these make us realise that we are just normal human being.When brain cells starts decaying,delirium sets in -probably Nature's way of easing the pain of parting.
-Mama
Mama this story is about my Kanpur Bua -Sarojini bua. Some years back Rahul my cousin had died of cancer and now a few days back phuphaji also expired. Bua had done this on both occasions -- even in the brain decay condition something more powerful is intact - it is so mysterious -defies logic
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