THE RECOVERY

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Karina born in the ’40s. She was a pretty girl & had 2 siblings, as she began growing their family was getting poor and poor. One day a man saw Karina walking in a very bad condition, he gave her education and a better position in society. She became a nurse in a nursing home. After a certain age, she got married to the same person who gave her an identity in society. Later they were leading a happy life, in spite of having an age gap between them. She gave birth to a boy baby and named him Ronald. Ronald was a very naughty kid during his childhood days. As he grew, he turned to be a very soft, gentle, and good person. Ronald used to help many old and poor people. After he grew he went abroad for his higher education. After his education, he started a big company with the motto of helping and serving jobless people. There was a beautiful lady named Kate who was working in Ronald’s company. Ronald and Kate were friends from the beginning of Kate’s service in that company. Later they started liking each other and got married. But Ronald’s mother was not so happy with his selection. Somehow they convinced Karina for their marriage and she turned out not to be so happy, but they got married and were leading a happy and joyful life. After 4 years Kate gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and they named her Suzie. Suzie was a very sweet kid because she never used to trouble her parents. Meanwhile, problems started arising in Karina’s life as her husband was not taking care of her and finally they got separated. Karina used to love her husbanda lot but didn’t like to go back to him as he left her. One fine morning she got a call from a family doctor saying that her husband was injured in a fire accident. But her ego was stopping her to go visit her husband. Her husband recovered and meanwhile, she got retired from her job. As Karina is not with her husband she had to stay alone at her house. Her loneliness made her shift to her son’s place. At that time there was a disease called Cholera which has taken many people's lives. Nothing could stop her to reach her son’s place. As she was working in the medical field and surrounded by the patients in the nursing home. There were a lot of chances for her to get affected by the disease.

As soon as she shifted abroad to her son’s place she slowly started getting the symptoms of cholera. She was very adamant to go the hospital and started self-medication but one fine day it turned out severe. Luckily Ronald and his family were not affected. Ronald took his mother Karina to various doctors and specialists to treat her from cholera. One of the doctors said that Karina was too old and weak for treatment at home and asked Ronald to admit Karina to some hospital so that she can be treated, but Ronald and his mother Karina did not agree, because Ronald loved his mother so much that he did not want his mother to stay in some hospital. So Ronald and Kate started to treat Karina at their house. They started to give her more medicines and antibiotics to build her immune system. After taking the medicines given by Ronald and Kate, Karina slowly started to recover but her recovery was not complete. Slowlyshe was faced more health problems arising in Karina’s life, like flu, asthma, BP, sugar etc. But Ronald did not want to inform his mother about the health issues she had because he thought that if he would inform her she would be mentally upset and the recovery would be more difficult. To recover Karina, Kate was the person suffering because she had to do her office as well as the house chores.

After a few days, Kate noticed that Karina was getting worse with her health and isolated her in a room. Slowly Ronald also started falling sick now and then, he also had the same symptoms of cholera that his mother Karina had. Then Ronald and Kate consulted a doctor, where the doctor said “there was nothing to worry about. But for confirmation Ronald you have to take a blood test”. After a few days, the blood test report was out and showed that Ronald had cholera. Then at that point of time, Kate in tension isolated Ronald from his mother. A day after the doctor called Ronald and informed

(A conversation between Ronald and the doctor)

Ronald: Hello sir

Doctor: Hello Ronald, I had to inform you about a serious matter.

Ronald: Yeah tell me, sir

Doctor: Sorry for the inconvenience Ronald but the blood test report which said you have cholera that you received yesterday was a wrong report.

Ronald: But sir how cannot it be my report?

Doctor: It was someone else’s report and whose name also Ronald, So it was given to you due to confusion.

Ronald: Thank you so much, sir…. bye

Doctor: My pleasure ……bye.

The problem was resolved and the family was very happy and celebrated with joy. At the same time, Karina was also getting recovered and she also had many tensions about how was her husband and she also had guiltabout the rifts she had with her husband.

After Karina completely recovered, she started thinking more and more about her husband and felt she did a huge mistake in her life. One day she overcame her ego, felt sorry for her husband, and decided to visit him. She visited him, expressed her guilt in the form of tears, and hoped that her husband would forgive her.

Her husband could understand her feelings by her actions and decided to forgive her. They started leading their life happily with their son, daughter-in-law and, granddaughter.

Finally, it was a happy family.

…………………………………THE END……………………………………

(Sathwika (a teen author))