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Monsoon, Mayuri & Amar - Are They…..rh Negative

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  1. Thyagarajan

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    :hello:Monsoon, Mayuri & Amar - are they…..Rh negative:hello:
    (Blood is thicker than water!)

    It was morning rush hour around half past eight. The city was battered by monsoon rain and cloudburst. A fair, slim and short lady, attired in a red hooded rain-coat over a pink saree, was scooting through heavy drizzle in the midst of huge steady moving traffic, toward her bank-branch.

    She meandered, approached an intersection for turning right to another busier wide road, when the signal turned from bright green to dull amber. At the same time she saw the hazy image in convex side view mirror in front - a huge truck dangerously speeding behind her.

    Next moment she only heard a dull thud and was thrown off from the scooter. She had fallen in line of a speeding motor bike to her left. Her head impacted on a protruding part of the bike, causing deep gash. The truck darted out and away from the scene.

    While there were many onlookers, none came forward to help. The traffic stood-still for a while and then detoured to move away from the spot. A calm lanky traffic policeman wearing an oversized kaki- hooded-rain-coat, his legs in gum boots, was nonchalantly walking to the spot.

    Just at the other end of the site of the accident and close to the signal post, Amarsing slowed down and parked his yellow-cab along sidewalk; Emerged out, holding his badge ‘786’, he walked zigzag through bumper to bumper traffic reached the spot, sat on one knee near the lady who was a tad conscious and lying down, bleeding from her head-wound.

    To arrest the bleeding, Amar stuffed the hurt portion of her scalp with one end of his cotton pugri (turban) and tied the remaining part around her head. He adjusted her dishevelled robes to make her look decent.

    He found she could hardly speak. Through his waxed thick salt-pepper moustache, he loudly uttered in heavily accented Hindi, words that echoed in his mouth - “ma’m - you are bleeding profusely. I would have to carry you to hospital. Her eyes transfixed. She had presence of mind to utter in shrill trailing voice “my blood group-mobile-hand-bag home-office-numbers” and then turned unconscious.

    Amar contemplated for a while and surveyed around, gathered strewn contents from her Hermës Red coloured hand-bag. He gathered all that including an intact mobile phone, stuffed them into her hand-bag. The stocky tall bike rider seen talking to traffic police in the vicinity, offered to take care of the lady’s scooter. He and Amar exchanged their mobile numbers and numbers from the lady’s mobile too.

    Keeping flat his palm gently pressing the bleeding spot with his red turban cloth, Amar carefully lifted and carried her to his yellow-cab and gently put her on the back seat; closed all doors softly and took to wheels. He managed to drive fast honking his way through the heavy traffic, reached a nearby popular hospital.
    The emergency doctor at hospital heard him in disbelief when Amar attempting to convince them it was just an accident and treatment is paramount to save her life, as she had been profusely bleeding. They insisted a complaint lodged with area police and presence of police at the hospital before they could admit, examine and decide further course of treatment.

    Amar was bestowed with gift of the gab. As first aid was being extended to the lady, he talked his way through hierarchy of doctors quickly and seen to it that the lady eventually admitted and immediate investigation and treatment commenced.

    Amar taken out from lady’s hand-bag her cell phone and in it searched for her home/office contact numbers and her blood group. First In “Notes” he found her blood group Rh negative and showed it to the doctor on emergency duty.

    In the next few minutes, he retrieved from hand-bag a red bordered ID card and glanced over it. He saw the stamp size image of the lady and other particulars. Her name is Mayuri, employed in a foreign bank in their city branch at nearby Prabhadevi and noted other useful particulars.

    He phoned up her office and conveyed to the one responded about the hospitalization and condition of the lady with a brief description of her and requested the bank-person to convey the matter to Mayuri’s residence.

    While the unconscious Mayuri was in hospital emergency ward, her nearby office colleagues and her relatives from outskirts of the city arrived in two’s and four’s at the hospital. The first one to arrive at the hospital was a boy - the lady’s younger brother.

    A staff nurse desired someone to complete the registration/payment formalities. Mayuri’s brother was too young and others were hesitant. Amar offered to pay the advance fees. He went ahead in fulfilling the admission formalities and made initial payments. In the admission register, under the column “relationship” he wrote “Brother.”

    An hour later, a doctor came and told that Mayuri needs blood transfusion and hospital blood bank could not arrange supply of blood matching her blood group Rh Negative a rare one.

    The doctor desired, her close relatives or siblings might have matching blood could donate. None of those present, could remember what their blood group was yet they volunteered to offer their blood.

    Amar remembered something; being a cab-driver took out his driving license and proffered it to the doctor. The doctor looked at a printed words “blood group” against which on dotted line written in bold letters “Rh negative”.

    He told the doctor that he would donate blood. He was taken into chamber and his blood sampled. In a space of half-an-hour, Hospital lab found his blood matching with Mayuri’s. So other formalities followed.

    In Op theatre, transfusion was arranged and Amar blood transfused to unconscious Mayuri.

    Sometime in the later part of the night, when all her vital parameters became normal, Mayuri regained consciousness and was wondering how she had landed there. The matron on duty briefed her of the happenings.

    Mayuri desired to see Amar. Nurses went out in search of Amar only to know that he had vanished long ago.

    Several decades went by, but Mayuri is still in the lookout to meet his “Samaritan brother”.

    (As heard from a taxi driver Amar Singh while travelling from Mumbai to Nashik)
     
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  2. Jeeves

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    What a large heart!!!!
    God bless this gentleman with all that he wishes for and much more !! What else can we say!
    He is what we call a HUMAN being !! All the rest are just " beings."
    Thank you for sharing this Thyagarajan :))))
     
  3. Thyagarajan

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    :hello:Thank you for your comments. Regards.
    God Bless us All.
     
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    Hats off to the gentleman! Rare breed.
    I admire him whole heartedly.
    Syamala
     
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    We need more of such good Samaritans.
     
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    :hello:Thanks for your comments. Regards.
    God Bless Us all.
     
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    @Thyagarajan Sir, Thank you for sharing this positive snippet that helps me try to be more compassionate and sensitive to other living creatures.
     
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    While Nations have become war mongering and unreliable, it would be like an oasis in a desert to continue you to remain Human. Jeeves had put it rightly in her comments ibid. thank you. Regards. God Bless Us All.
     
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    In crisis, only the strangers help, whereas the near and dear ones escape under some pretext.
    This is the way of life from time immemorial.
    When my husband was involved in a major motor bike accident in 1988 in a farmland while attending office duty near Thiruvannamalai, some unknown uneducated person alone helped him.Read my snippet
    Finest Contribution:A journey through mind by Jayasala42
     
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    :hello:@teenulahari Thank You for liking this anecdote. Regards.
    God Bless Us All.
     

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