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 Our house is on the 1st floor and there is no lift facility available and need to climb 15 steps to step into the home. He climbed the first 5 steps easily and struggled to climb the remaining 10 steps. Finally, stepped into the home and he had tears of happiness in his eyes as he came back to his home after many days. I told him not to worry and I told him — ‘You will be back here every day after a couple of months, once you get stabilized’. He spent half an hour there and we went back to our aunt’s house.

After sitting in the chair for a few minutes at my aunt’s house. He called my aunt to come once and adjust his right leg as it was paining a lot. After a while, we called a local doctor home and gave him a diclofenac injection. Even after a few minutes, his right leg pain didn’t subside and it started swelling. He had been to the washroom and on the way back, he wasn’t able to move his leg as usual. Around 12 AM, he asked us to take him to the hospital as he wasn’t able to bear the pain. I made a call to the driver and we took him to one of the local hospitals but they didn’t admit or treat him as he was weak and it was COVID time. So, we took him to another hospital around. They infused paracetamol injection, which didn’t help either and the hospital staff asked us to take him to the hospital, where the treatment was in progress.

He said I couldn’t travel long(30 KM)with this pain but, it was around 2 AM and we didn’t have any other alternative option other than to get him admitted to Dr. Kishore’s hospital. We somehow reached there and got him admitted. They started treatment but his leg thigh was swollen and even after giving him certain medications, the pain didn’t control.

Around 9 AM the morning, Dr. Kishore examined him and said there was Edema in his right leg thigh and instructed nurses and doctors on certain medications and tests. I took him to the ultrasound room to test for any abnormality in the thigh. But, fortunately, it was a negative report.

We actually planned to visit one of the best hospitals in India in Tamilnadu and made all the necessary logistics requirements to travel within a day but all of sudden in the night, this happened.

After a few minutes……

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