It is not longtime since I insisted some of the
student-friends in a class that they should exercise adequate care while
commuting, especially while walking, riding bike or driving a car.
Out of all that I learnt from my father and what my father had taught me, I shared a
few on that day. One such input from my
father was, ‘sense the world around you, always’.
With ‘sense the world around you, always’ bug having caught
me in a very tenderly age, I annoyed someone with that bug several years ago.
It was the proprietor and trainer at SMB Driving school,
Perambur, Chennai. He took me few classes for Car Driving. He persisted that I unnecessarily
keep looking at the rear-view mirror and side-view mirrors. I had my rationale (which I did not tell him) that when I do not need my eyes casting their vision at the front (owing to
various factors on the road), my eyes will be casting their vision and taking
clue from either sides and at the rear-end of the car / jeep whatever I might drive and whichever terrain I will be driving in.
I guess, this bug has kept me alive on several occasions as
I usually travel at least around 40KMs in National High Ways every single day
(almost).
Having said all these,
a CT Scan was done to me at 2.30 AM on Sunday (21/09/14), with me
getting admitted at the Causality Male
ward No 201, at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (GH) – Central , Chennai.
I was, kind of, not with very serious injuries.
Earlier, two skull x-rays and two x-rays on my right leg,
were taken with the first-aid being given for the ‘not-so-deep’ Head injury ,
severe abrasion from within my lower
lip, large blog clot in the right thigh area; at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital Chennai
around 1.30 AM on 21/09/14, with the physicians wanting me to go the GH at
Chennai -Central for the CT scan. A
formal police inquiry medical report was registered about the road-accident (AR
No. 471350 / OP No. 32295) at the KMC Hospital. After a few days since the
accident, I could now recover well ( Maybe, I had to recover well to get ahead with
things).
I could remember asking
the Hotel staff to keep my food packed before I would sip-in a cup of tea. After
saying these few words, around 8:15 PM on 20/09/14, I do not even remember to have
taken the first-step outside the hotel premises. An under-age (he does even have the valid license)
guy , working in his father’s Bike Garage at Senneer Kuppam,
Poonamallee-Avadi Road, rammed me on my right-thigh, with his bike.
Honestly, I did not see that one coming.... I am sure
the tradecraft I received from my father has never failed me. I know how to ‘sense
the world around me’. It could possibly because, I thought I was still in the
hotel premises. But this guy coming from behind the hotel on the wrong-road
(unfortunately it is Chennai –Bangalore National Highways), by holding almost 4
x 1 Feet size spare-part package, by balancing it between the handle-bars and
headlamp console, without tying it.
I remember that I was given a pat on my chin a few times, when I was getting to consciousness,
the Physician (besides his father who was the senior physician) at Dr. Mani’s
Clinic at Poonamallee kept asking my name and where I came from. Blood kept rushing out from injuries on the rear-side of the head and from torn lower lip, with my right leg
almost becoming immovable, I tried to recollect what had happened.
Later, I learnt from the physician that I had an absolute blackout
for around 30 minutes and that I was thrown on the road when that under-age
bike wala rammed on my right-thigh without the ability to apply the brakes; nor
to navigate the bike away from me, in an angle where no human being could have
possibly seem him coming.
Luckily, the injuries were not very severe, though the
residual pains are.. sort of manageable.
That incident terrorized my Mom and Sisters. But that accident
taught me a lesson.
A lesson to make sure that I have all my Insurance-stuff
updated (I am usually good to go, with all types of Insurances). There was altogether
another trance that I got into.
If I were to die on 21/09/14, my Mom and Sisters (Eldest one’s
kids) might have well used my Insurances’ benefits. But how about the other
stuff, which I could donate to someone else in need, someone who is poor,
someone whose family badly want him / her to go to work for which he / she
needs vision or other vital organs.
Around 3:00 AM on 22/09/14, I realized the nobility in donating
one’s organs.
Like many who would reason out, I will be registering for
Organs Donation (not just eyes, whatever could be removed from body) within the next 72 hours.
I want to live forever.. (at least reasonably longer through my deeds)..
Will you consider?
Thanks,
Chris