Eventful !

It was an usual day today… I had class in the morn, came back home n went for a walk… came back at 7. Bro demanded alu ka paratha for dinner so I was set to the kitchen making the dinner… dad as usual watching news n working with sum official papers n mom was making bro study… nothing unusual… after finishing off with dinner prep, I logged on gtalk, n was reading the e-book I got “The Secret” dead-line for finishing with that being the week-end but I thought I would rather conveniently finish it off today itself. But I was wrong!

After serving the dinner to the family n after getting enough appreciation for the food, I went to the kitchen to clean up, happily listening to “I’ll b thr for u” n singing along… when I heard Mom’s shriek… one of the worst one I have ever heard… I rushed to the room n found dad lying there on the floor near the wash-basin. The little lump of Grey matter in my head, (that I was ever so proud to address as super-fast n smart) suddenly seemed like a lump of clay. It wasn’t working… I wasn’t working… I was frozen. Didn’t quite understand anything. For a second, life seemed to have met a full-stop.

All I could see was my super-hero, my guardian, my saver, my guide, my support… my dad… there lying on the floor… helpless, motionless… n my mom there trying to shake him up. Sumthing from inside shouted, “help mom, u idiot!!!!!! Don’t just give away”. I rushed to get water, sprinkled on dad… he didn’t move. I opened the back door, shouted “Aunty! Uncle! Ayu!”. In a jiffy, my whole locality seemed to have moved on to my house. There was everyone… all the neighbors. Some rubbed dad’s hands, some his legs… some moved back to giv in air… I was acting dumb n so was my bro who didn’t move out of his room n didn’t even bother to lower the volume of the video of “coast-to-coast” that he was watching for the 500^th time! But then after sumtime, he too got sum courage n stood by dad’s side.

N suddenly, dad opened his eyes. Cant express in words as to how I felt. Slowly dad seemed to get back to his senses. I was just standing there… as a spectator viewing the whole episode… nothing to say… nothing to do… nothing to react to, but to wait, to pray, to hope! My neighbors were damn helpful, it was them who made dad sit on chair n all I did was to rush to get sum water to drink. They were asking dad questions like “do u recognize where u r?” n “wat u had for dinner?” n stuff… I felt like shouting, “oh! Pls! don’t dramatize… he just fainted for sum god damn reason, he is not suffering from amnesia” but then I felt it will be rude to speak when elders r dealing the matter. Soon it was decided that we will be going to hospital after an hour, an hour for dad to get back to his cool. He was quite shaken by the incident.

People offered for help to take dad to the hospital but my mom rejected. She said “my daughter can drive, she will take us”. I standing there was partly proud n partly nervous. Well hospitals rnt really my favorite place n I bet even doctors wont call it their favorite place but then ‘hospital n me’???!!! I know n mom knows how much fuss I make when I need to go to hospitals but then she announced it so proudly that I didn’t wanted to act fussy. It was 10:15 at night when dad seemed quite stable n mom declared we are leaving for hospital. She asked me to look around all her secret reservoirs to find out how much liquid cash is available in case we need to get sum scans n stuff done. I offered the 1000 bucks I saved last month, n for the first time in the whole episode, mom smiled! Well I don’t really leak out how much I saved… n I knew 1000 wont contribute much but then I was happy that I HAD sumthing to offer.

After the cash arrangement, we moved out. For the first time, dad didn’t say a word n went n sat next to the driver’s seat. Before driving when I removed my slippers (an usual act) dad didn’t shout at me saying “when will u learn to drive with slippers on”… I was going right n giving left indicator but dad didn’t shout at me. He didn’t even give me those dreadful looks when I was composing tunes with car horn. Neither did he ask me to lower the gears before the turns. He didn’t say a word. I was feeling very uncomfortable. Am certainly not used to dad’s silence while am driving. He used to make me feel like am the worst driver in the universe n today he is not speaking a word! Dad was un usually quite, so was my bro… n mom… n me… it was like a ‘getting back life’ moment… we were all too exhausted to speak. But the best part was, I COULD drive… I realized am not really as weak as I think I am. I didn’t shed one tear! I seriously didn’t realize that but as I was driving, recollecting al that happened, I told myself “girl! U almost lost ur dad n u were not crying!” sumthing from inside told me “yeah! Coz I knew quite well that nothing wrong gonna happen”.

When we reached the hospital n showed to doctor, he gave an injection n said it doesn’t seem too serious. He said dad must have fainted coz of over-work n tiredness… BP was normal n we sighed a relief! But still he asked to show up in the morn to a specialist n we nodded. It was almost 11 when we reached back home. After making dad lay comfortably in bed, I came here to write down. Though standing outside the hospital, I felt like calling up sumone to speak to but then I kinda feel more comfortable in writing things rather than speaking out. I decided I better blog so I started off to write as soon as I came back. But as I was writing, phone rang. I picked up n a guy from the hospital was on the other side n he informed that dad had left his purse in the room where he took the injection. There was more than 20,000 in his purse n all his id card, ATM cards, driving license, everything!

I left the computer in ‘stand by mode’ n rushed to wake up mom n we both locked the door n rushed back to the hospital. Mom constantly cursing herself for the carelessness n I constantly telling her to stop doing that. We reached the hospital n the guy who called was standing at the door with dad’s purse. We thanked him whole heartedly n took his number. Maybe dad can give him a call later n invite him over for lunch. Its hard to find such good people in this world. When I was cuming back, my mom took a deep breath n said “what an eventful day… err… night!!”. I gave a short smile n shared a joke with mom…

"Daughter – Mom! I got a guy just like dad.

Mother – what do u want from me? Sympathy???"

We both had a heart-felt laugh n enjoyed the night drive… sumthing I always wished for… but never knew it will come to action in this manner… anyways, dad is sleeping peacefully now n its getting quite late now so I too will be off. End of an eventful night!