ZINDAGI KYA KEHTI HAI

Chap-7

Swara was sleeping peacefully in her bedroom when all of a sudden her cell phone rang. She looked at the number and was amazed to find out it was from Laksh.

"Hello! Dr. Laksh!" Swara picked up the phone.

After hearing what he said, Swara almost jumped out of bed. Within 5 minutes she was unlocking the door of her house to sit in her car. She instructed her mother not to be awake and wait for her return.

She reached Sanskar's place within 20 minutes. She pushed the doorbell and in no time Sujata opened the door.  She was visibly tensed.
"Dr. Bose!" Sujata asked. Swara nodded amd sujata paved the way.

Swara rushed inside. Sujata guided her towards Sanskar's room. Inside she saw, Sanskar was gasping for breathe. Laksh was trying to calm him down. All his medical knowledge had seemed to be vanished at that point.

"Since when?" Swara asked Laksh.

"About half an hour." Laksh tried hard to control his voice.

"Mr. Maheshwari." Swara came closer to him and tried to hold his pulse, "Did you smoke today?"

Sanskar nodded in disaproval.

"You can't lie. Tell me how many?" Swara's voice was visibly irritated.

Sanskar raised fingers. 10... he smoked 10 cigerrettes. Swara looked in disbelief at him and then at Laksh.

Swara injected a drug in sanskar's left arm and Laksh made him lie down on his bed. Swara rubbed his chest gently. But more gentle were her words, "calm down Mr. Maheshwari. Calm down! Relax yourself!"

She saw Sanskar's breathing getting normal and he drifting off in sleep. After taking his pulse again and finding it getting normal, Swara came out of the room. And then she saw something. In her urgency, she almost forgot the other people who were present there. Durga Prasad, Annapoorna, Sujata, Ram prasad, whole family was there.

Swara greeted them with a proffessional smile and got a return from everyone.
"Thank you so much Dr. Bose. You have again saved my child's life." Swara looked at the sugar coated voice. It was annapoorna.

"No issues Mrs. Maheshwari. It was my duty." Swara replied gently. She then looked at Laksh visibly distressed.

"Dr. Laksh. What led to this? I mean he was in a good mood when I left. It was all due to excessive smoking after such a long time." Swara asked.

"Dr. Bose! Even I don't know why?" But Laksh's eyes were saying something different. His eyes were pointing out towards Annapoorna.

"He did not smoked for more than half of the month. Then all of a sudden 10 cigerrettes in a short duration. This made him like this." Swara explained the situation to everyone just like a doctor should have.

"Beta!" Swara looked at the voice which called her beta so lovingly. It was rare in page3 family to address someone so lovingly. It was Sujata.

"Beta! We will make sure all the cigerrettes should be thrown out of this house." Sujata said.

"No aunty!" Swara replied in the same tone which sujata used. She did never address her proffessional relations informally but here it was different.
"I don't know what traumas happened to him in his childhood. But I know that he is very sensitive. He has a heart of gold and he should be handled just the way gold should be."

Swara's gaze fell over Annapoorna who was making an irritated expressions on her face. But her expressions changed as soon as she saw swara staring at her.

"Are beta! I am Sanskar's mother. He is an attention seeker since childhood. I know....!" Annapoorna tried to give a cover up.

"Sorry Mrs. Maheshwari but since I am a psychiatrist as well as psychologist, I can judge someone better than anyone present in this room. No offence but it's not me, it's my dregrees which say this!" Swara tried hard to keep her voice gentle.