Here is a story about friends that will make you surely go weak-kneed. If you so long knew a hospital to be only a cure for your ills, it's time you think again.
Here is a story about friends that will make you surely go weak-kneed. If you so long knew a hospital to be only a cure for your ills, it's time you think again. Two friends who have met accidentally after four decades has made hospitals good meeting joints too, no pun intended, as the two friends had gone to the hospital to have their knees replaced!
Now, unlike patients who get impatient to get back home after their treatment is over, these bosom pals - Neela Shah and Sudevi Mahesha - who had been successfully operated for total knee replacement (TKP) in a city hospital, wanted to stay for a few more days. After all, they have 40 years to catch up on!
Both Shah and Mahesha were part of a group of five best friends, Panjo, (the hand) as they were called in college. However, like all other friends, the five too had to part ways after college was over. Each got busy in their own sphere of activities - from jobs to homemaking. Shah is a busy housewife, while Mahesha is working.
Mahesha, now a resident of Ahmedabad, was admitted for her second total knee replacement in Shalby Hospitals. Worried that the hospital stay might prove to be a dull affair, she thought of checking up on the list of patients. To her pleasant surprise, Mahesha saw a familiar name -Neela Shah — in the list. She checked the address and found it to match her friend's. Buoyed by the discovery, Mahesha marched up to meet Shah who was there for a TKR surgery, said Dr Vikram Shah who had operated on both the patients.
With even the other three friends coming down to the hospital regularly to meet these two, the group of five is complete.
As for Shah and Mahesha, they insisted on being shifted to the same room from day one and on the day of surgery both were taken together to be operated upon by Dr Shah with only half an hour's interval. Both friends wished each other luck and underwent the operation.
After the surgery was over, Mahesha was brought in to the cabin a little late from the post-operation room. Shah got impatient and demanded to know how her friend was doing. She remained awake till Mahesha was wheeled in besides her. From there on it was like old times again. So much so that relatives were asked to go out so that the two old friends can talk, exercise and eat together. They take injections together, and if one was not given medication or got the pressure checked, the other demanded that it be done immediately.
Talking to DNA, Shah said: "For a short while in the first evening, we spent time in recriminations, blaming each other for not keeping in touch, nor attending to mails nor calling each other up. However all differences dissolved as night approached and we are taking up from where we had left 40 years back."
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