First Aid Box –
checked
Knife – check
Spectacle case –
check
Shikha had checked everything twice. It was not that she was
not sure of her work, or she doubted herself. She had done that hundreds of
times before.
Shikha was one of the best nurse to assist the doctors in
the surgery, she just knew her job to well, and doctors always preferred that
she was there during the most complicated and long surgeries.
The surgery was scheduled for Friday morning, as Shikha
would be there on duty.
Shikha had done the recheck, before the patient was brought in
for the surgery. She looked at Shikha and said, “Shikha, be by my side ok! I just hope that I go out from this place
alive “??
Before Shikha responded!!!!
“Of course you will don’t worry “said the doctor, who by now
had walked in with the anesthetist.
The lady on the operation table looked at the doctor, and
held Shikha’s hand.
Including Shikha everyone was aware that, it was a major
surgery and chances were 90/10. 90%
stood for failure.
“Are we all set
Shikha “? – asked the anesthetist?
“Yes doc “!! She replied. !!!
There was something wrong in her voice and everyone present
there had noticed that, after all the , lady to be operated was Meghana Ayee, in whose house Shikha stayed as a PG, since she moved in to Mumbai. Meghana Ayee had
been more like her mother then her landlady .She had filled that void of a
mother for Shikha.
The anesthetist checked the vitals, and gave the sedation to Meghana ayee.
The surgery started, and everyone could see that today, Shikha’s
hand were betraying her mind. Whenever a surgical tool was passed by her to the
doctor, her hands were trembling.
Time was running, 2 hours had already passed and doctors were
worried as Meghana Ayee's vitals were going down, they had to try till the end
doctors thought.
But there, the monitor BEEPED……..
Meghana Ayee could not take the surgery;
she had taken her last breath on the table.
And before, any one could say or do something; Shikha had
fallen down on the floor. She had "Fainted ".
When Shikha woke up, she found herself in the recovery room
with other nurses and the Dean of the hospital standing right in front of her.
Shikha knew that she can faint that’s normal. But she is not
supposed to faint in the surgery, among the other nurses and the doctors.
She was not allowed to that, in her profession.
She was sent home that day, so that she can be with Meghana ayee’s
family for the final rituals.
Shikha joined the hospital after 4 days, to see that she has
been removed from the surgical Rota for the next 6 months and was assigned the new
work to Train the Trainee.
Politely the dean had suspended her.
And today after 6 months, she was back in the surgery. The
place she belonged and longed to be back.
The anesthetist, the doctors and the nurses were also happy
to see Shikha back!!
The patient was brought in; he looked at the doctors and
around the OT, as if searching for someone.
And there, he could see Shikha.
Shikha turned around and looked into eyes of the patient
walked to him and said. “You going to be just fine, it’s a minor surgery!!
The man on the table today was her fiancé ….
She walked to the other side of the table and started her rechecks….
First Aid Box – checked
Knife – check
Spectacle case – check
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