It was tuesday,the second tuesday of january, 2010. I can't remember the day and date of a month, it is something like "breaking stones" for me. But the day TUESDAY is specially noticed by me because it is the only day when I couldn't get an egg-omlete in my hostel mess and I have to have some vegetables to end the food fire of my stomach. It doesn't mean that I don't like vegetables, I like them much but not according to my mess recipe. I think you would better know if you have ever been in a hostel,and if not then ask a guy who has gone through such conditions.
I was in my room and watching the bollywood movie 'ACCIDENT ON HILL ROAD' starring selina jately, farooque sheikh, abhimanyu kapoor etc. The other two of my batchmates akhil and pankaj were also with me. Although it was a thriller movie yet we were laughing at every dialogues and scenes of that movie. Don't get confused as there was not any laughing gas blowed in the room. If you would watch this movie, i am sure, you wouldn't be able to stop yourself laughing and criticizing it.
The clock on my table was showing 1:15 am suddenly shashank, my batchmate, came and said, "amitG is getting a huge pain in his stomach, so one of you come with me to hospital" . We exclaimed, "Oh!". Pankaj said, "ok, I am coming". I was thinking that what would be the main cause of this problem. Either it is mess food as the same stomach pain has happened many times to other students or it may also be the student itself because seeing parathe, pao-bhaji and dosa, it is difficult to resist yourself to have over dose. well, I hit the spacebar of my keyboard and started the movie again.
At around 2:00 am shashank called us and akhil picked the phone and saying ok, ok many times he passed the phone to me . I asked "What happened?". shashank replied, " There is some serious problem. Doctor is saying that he will be under inspection whole night. The pain is under control and right now he is getting drips." I asked "What happened? What was the problem?"
He replied, "some gastro-interitis and something like that. Now you and saurabh come here as i m feeling sleepy and will return to hostel with pankaj." I said, "ok, I am coming with saurabh."
I went to saurabh and told him all that and at around 2:20 we left the hostel.
As we came outside , the night was full of fog that we couldn't see clearly at a distance over one meter and also it was too cold to go out. I was packed in a bundle of warm clothes and my feet were covered with shoes even though I was feeling that I had some ice-cubes in my shoes. Saurabh started the bike and now we were on the way to hospital. We reached lanka at 2:30 am.
We were shewering with cold so first we went to a tea shop.We had a cup of tea and cig which always forced me and made essential to have it whenever a cup of tea is in my hand. Saurabh called shashank to know the conditions of amitG. Shashank received the phone and said, "AmitG is far better now, getting drips and smiling. Well, where are you?". After knowing our location he came to us, had some cig and finally we approched towards the emergency ward of Sir Sundar Lal hospital.
When we reached there , I saw amitG was lying on a bed, having drips with a big smile on his face. AmitG was in a good condition and fully ok. AmitG was having one glucose bottle through drip and there were two more bottles kept on the bed. Saurabh , in a slightly funny mood, said, "amiG, please take the glucose bottle and drink it so that we may leave soon". Everyone laughed and amitG also smiled, but it was small compared to initial one. We asked, "AmitG , if you are not getting any pain or any prolem now, may we ask doctor to discharge you?" After getting amitG's positive reply,we approched to doctor. But the senior doctor, who was doing the treatment of amitG was not present there at that time. Finally,Shashank said, "yaar I am getting sleepy so I am leaving for hostel with pankaj." We said, " ok, but we are also feeling sleepy so you go and send two other guys for further duty. we will leave when they will come." He nodded and left for hostel with pankaj.
Now we started waiting for the doctor to come and take the permission to discharge amitG. Finally the doctor came but he refused our proposal prescribing some more medicines,injectios, X-ray and ultra sound etc. .I and saurabh, with a forced smile on our faces, watched into each other eyes as saying the same statement, "OH ! GOD, the FORMALITY-TRAIN of the doctor has gotten green light and without thinking much we will have to catch it.". We went to the the counter to pay the bill for X-ray as we didn't have the amitG's health card or i-card. The person inside the counter was lying on a bench with sleep in his eyes. We said, "Bhaiya, X-ray ke paise jama kar lo, kitne de?". He said, "Rs. 120 maatr". I sighed as it was not MAATR, every student knows that better. Well, after paying the bill we took amitG with us and went to X-ray room. The X-ray employee saw the bill and the form but couldn't get exactly the position in which the X-ray was to be done. He said, "doctor ke pass jao, aur poochho KHADA HO KAR KARNA HAI YA LETA KAR." The funny part of my mind got alive at once and I thought the other meaning of that statement. Surely you would also have thought the same. Don't refuse , it's common , especially in engineers. Well I went to doctor, asked,came back to X-ray room and told the X-ray room man, "KHADA HO KAR KARNA HAI". But he had started it already. After taking the X-ray we came to the bed. AmitG was now getting another glucose bottle, the source of energy full of carbohydrates, that can easily be seen by amitG's big smile.
I and saurabh was trying to dry the wet X-ray sheet, suddenly vijayendra and vikas reached there at around 4:30 am. They came and asked the situation. vijayendra asked, "What you guys are doing?" Saurabh said ," Trying to dry amitG's XEROX". We all laughed. After passing some time lambu (vijayendra's nick) went with saurabh to try one more time for the leave. But again the same happened . The FORMALITY-TRAIN was still going on with an extra bogie of ULTRASOUND. They came and told us that the doctor was asking for health card and i- card otherwise the bed cost and ultrasound cost would also had to give. I and polly (vikas's nick) went to doctor. I told him, " Sir, both the i-card and health card are in hostel and health card is not renewd. He replied, "So what? Go and bring it. You are from IT, so be quick". What could we do then?. The answer was simple "GO..GO...GO, a very common statement for COUNTER-STRIKE players". I and polly went to the ultra sound room but came to know that the ultra sound would start in the morning at 9:00 am. We returned and sat beside amitG on his bed. AmitG was still taking the drips and said, "I have to go to bathroom". I, in a funny mood, said, "wait, and if you can't resist you can fart here". amitG replied, "just shut up, I have to urinate, not that ". I smiled and took him for doing so, came back, and amitG was again in the same position on bed having energy source.
Now it was around 5:30 am, polly said to me, "Let's go and have some tea and cig". I said ok. Saurabh also wanted to come with us . So we three left for a tea and lambu stayed there to look after amitG. We went to tea shop ordered 3 bun-butter and tea and lit some cig. When we returned we saw lambu was also on bed with amitG. No, no, no don't think something wrong. Actually there was still sleep in his eyes. Saurabh said, "ok, so we are going to hostel and will send mishraG and roop kishore." Lambu and polly said ok. We came back to hostel at around 6:10 am and woke mishraG and roop kishore up and told them everything.
Finally I went for a lovely sleep and woke up at 1:30 pm and then came to know that after mishraG and roop kishore there were two more shifts for hospital visit. In first shift, there were bhediya (saket's nick) and boobey (dubey's nick) and in the second, that was last shift, there were netaG (sumeet's nick)and tammo (ankit mehta's nick). And after this long night story amitG was finally in his room with the same big smile on his face.
