''The Midnight Cries!''
It was 1 AM and the busy hospital of the day was now a silent place.
A loud cry alerted everyone in the medical ward.
It was of a mother whose 20 year old daughter had been admitted to the hospital just that morning and found to have cardiomegaly and symptoms of congestive heart failure.
A panicked mother immediately reported to the nursing station that something was wrong with her daughter who was convulsing on her bed.
Even before the medical officer and intern reached the place and started the CPR, she had breathed her last. They however continued the CPR but ECG refused to take any curves..
The mother cried out loudly and now almost everyone in the ward was awake .
Her daughter lay there silent, unmoved, lifeless..
At the same time, a 100 metres away, in the labour room, another woman cried loudly at the height of her labour pain. In that instance, the woman became a mother.
In both instances, a mother cried.
In the first, the daughter gave no response.
In the second, the baby daughter wriggled, cried out loudly and came to life...
In the first, a cry was followed by more cries.
In the second, a cry was followed by laughter..
- Devashish Palkar
It was 1 AM and the busy hospital of the day was now a silent place.
A loud cry alerted everyone in the medical ward.
It was of a mother whose 20 year old daughter had been admitted to the hospital just that morning and found to have cardiomegaly and symptoms of congestive heart failure.
A panicked mother immediately reported to the nursing station that something was wrong with her daughter who was convulsing on her bed.
Even before the medical officer and intern reached the place and started the CPR, she had breathed her last. They however continued the CPR but ECG refused to take any curves..
The mother cried out loudly and now almost everyone in the ward was awake .
Her daughter lay there silent, unmoved, lifeless..
At the same time, a 100 metres away, in the labour room, another woman cried loudly at the height of her labour pain. In that instance, the woman became a mother.
In both instances, a mother cried.
In the first, the daughter gave no response.
In the second, the baby daughter wriggled, cried out loudly and came to life...
In the first, a cry was followed by more cries.
In the second, a cry was followed by laughter..
- Devashish Palkar
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