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ICU………again……

 I was really tensed and didn’t understand why they had put him in the ICU. I was thinking all about it and browsing the internet about it and returned home around 1 AM. On the way back home, I made a call to my friend and told her about the condition and asked her to please be available at any time at midnight. It was so generous of her to accept the request.

I couldn’t sleep the whole night because of stress and tension. I went back to the hospital in the early morning around 5 AM and the nurse who was standing outside the ICU for some work told me ‘Your father is doing fine now and he passed his stools also’. I requested him to allow me inside to see him once. I went inside and spoke to him and also saw him with a smile. I felt relieved then and went to have breakfast.

I was waiting in the waiting room near the ICU to speak to Dr. Kishore, meanwhile, my friend came with her mother to see my father and spoke to me and gave me some confidence.

Dr Kishore came and inquired about his condition and asked the staff to shift him to the room from ICU, he also said that he suffered it because of travelling and also, in the winter, because of less intake of water, there can be a chance for indigestion and thus results in constipation. He also advised more fluids and leafy vegetables to get rid of such problems.

We got discharged from there a day later and after 3–4 days, when my father went to the office, he called me in the afternoon, he said he was having similar pain and then we consulted the local doctor and administered an enema again. He got relieved and then after analysis, we understood that it was happening because of pain medication, he was consuming for his left side abdomen pain.

After a week, he again suffered from constipation but this time enema also didn’t work and the next morning, we decided to visit the hospital and get admitted there.

He drank milk in the morning, which he vomited immediately, which happened again after 6 months of surgery. He was scared of the recurrence of the tumour.

We started from the home to the hospital, after 15 KM, he was not able to bear the pain but we somehow reached the hospital, within an hour by travelling 30 KM. By the time we reached the hospital, his stomach started bloating and it bloated like a ball. I couldn’t control my emotions by looking at him in such a state.

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