It has been cloudy since morning. The weather is like the gentle chill of Bangalore. The atmosphere of Ananthapuri has been like this for a week. I can't tell if it will rain or not. So I stayed confined to the office. An unfamiliar person came in unexpectedly with a 'Namaskaram'. The question 'Do you remember me?' followed.
I searched my memory, 'Yes, I do. You came here long ago, many times when I was an additional secretary in the secretariat. You were in finance. It's been a while since I saw you. Your attire has also changed. A pure white jubba and mundu. The well-trimmed beard, which has a lot of gray in it, looks beautiful. The rudraksha around your neck can also be seen through the jubba. He has a dignified presence. I asked about his well-being. He suddenly looked sad. The reply came: "I am well. I retired last year. My wife also passed away six months ago. She was fifty when she died." (In my lexicon, that age for a woman is still youth). "Now I can guess he might be 57. He certainly doesn't look that age! What was the illness?" to my question, he answered very freely... "There was no illness. Other than a uterus removal operation she had at the age of forty, in our 28 years of married life, neither of us had to take any allopathic medicine. If we got a fever or cold, we would just drink dry ginger coffee, that's all!"
"Suddenly one day, while she was in the bathroom, she felt very weak. I heard her call me to come, and when I ran to check, I saw her holding onto the bathroom wall and collapsing. We immediately took her to a super specialty hospital near the Pangode military camp. They put her in the ICU. The next day, after examining the blood, stool, urine, and scans, the doctor said, 'The engine, gearbox, clutch, everything is gone!' 'But don't worry,' he said, 'we will fix everything now. Just pay the required money at the counter and get the receipt.' He was an old finance guy, so he did the required calculations in an instant. He immediately discharged the patient from the ICU and took her to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College and admitted her there... There are 'devourers' there too... But even if they devour, it won't be like a private hospital, so that was some relief. All the tests there were done without fail, and the next day, the results came. 'There is nothing to fear. The illness is this simple: 'Her kidneys have shrunk.'... 'She needs to have a few dialyses, that's all.'
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