ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL SITUATION feedback received by Dr. Leo Rebello

[Guest guest]

Here is what Carol Roberts, MD has to say on my article Mysterious Fever.

Also enclosing the final cover / front and back / for your perusal.

 

 

 

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Carol Roberts drleorebello

Friday, April 13, 2007 9:13 AM Re: Fw: Mysterious Fever

 

My dearest Leo,

I cannot tell you how much your experience has moved me, as has your analysis of the medical situation. No one knows the full extent of the ignorance and the rapaciousness of the system until they are confronted with it.

 

The story is appalling, the situation unthinkable. I am so sorry for your loss. Of course I remember my visit to your home and your delightful family. I still have pictures from that time.

 

May I have your permission to send your message to some of my friends and associates? I know they will find it instructional. The more people that recognize the damage done by a capitalist medical model, the sooner we will get substantial change. Clearly this is one way that Ronald's tragic death can be turned to good.

 

I pray you will find peace in your heart soon and that you find solace from your pain in continuing the crusade that has occupied your life.

 

With love to you, Kashmira and your younger boy (not a boy anymore, no doubt!).

Carol

 

 

 

 

MYSTERIOUS FEVER

By Dr. Leo Rebello

www.healthwisdom.org

 

 

Our elder son Ronald passed away on 23/02/07 at the KEM Hospital, Bombay, on admission at about 1.00 in the morning. The MICU of the KEM had better facilities than the fleecing hospital (Riddhi Vinayak Critical Care Hospital, in Malad, run by one Dr.V.S.Goyal, MD, DM) where Ronald’s condition deteriorated obviously because of carpet bombing by weapons of mass destruction called the broad spectrum antibiotics. Without consulting us they put central intravenous line and infused something like 20 bottles of glucose saline, 3 bottles of blood A+, several injections and medicines through Ryle’s tube in 48 hours that he was there.

 

The fever began all of a sudden on 29/01 and it was 103o/104oF, periodically coming down to 101oF due to enemas, compresses, homeopathic remedies and proper diet personally fed by me and the patient's mother.

 

Even though we treated Ronald at home till 19th February, we did several tests, some thrice over, on the advice of seniors who kept visiting our home. Widal test was negative, no malaria parasite, no dengue, no Australia antigen, no infective hepatitis, no meningitis, no tuberculosis, and no pneumonia. HIV test, in which I do not believe, was also done and that too was negative. Digital X’Ray PA view of lungs was normal. Blood studies were normal. Blood culture of seven days was also normal.

 

Sonography of the Abdomen and Pelvis (taken on 19/02 evening, on admission to Vibha Family Care Hospital) showed all organs perfect and normal and no ascites. Ultrafast multislice multiplanar plain CT scan of brain was performed on 22/02/07. It said: “There is no focal area of altered attenuation in the supra or infratentorial parenchyma. Ventricles, sulci and cisterns are normal. No midline shift seen. Visualized skull base and paranasal sinuses appear normal. Conclusion: No focal parenchymal abnormality is detected”.

 

Swallowing reflex was normal, urine voided was sufficient to the liquid taken by mouth. RBC count was 4.46 and haemoglobin was 13.5, which later dropped to 7.5. We shifted him to RVCC on 20/02 because of sudden drop in BP - 90/40 mmHg. In RVCC they repeated several tests, several times and started bombarding medicines, even though I argued with the hospital authorities that antibiotics can help only in bacterial infection, not in case of viral attack. I also urged the doctors to look for heavymetal-poisoning or kapha (phlegm) having gone to the brain and the cause of sudden loss of RBCs. Could it be due to gastro-intestinal bleeding? But there was no occult blood in the stools or no blood in urine. I asked them, when RBCs were being destroyed and vitality down, was it wise to bombard with so many medicines which may prove lethal? Ronald slumped into an unconscious state instead of improving, as hospital bills went up astronomically.

 

They also pressurised us to do lumbar puncture for meningitis (even though brain scan and another X-Ray of chest was normal). The CSF study results, too, turned out normal. Then they frightened us that his creatinine level was going up and put him on dialysis. Thereafter they declared that it was acute multi organ failure. If on 19/02 night, scan shows all organs functioning normally, and on 20/02 another scan shows multi organ failure, then either your tests are faulty or your treatment is the cause of the multi organ failure, I said. If you give so many medicines to someone who had not taken anything except sweet pills of homeopathy all these 25 years, this would naturally happen, I stressed. I had told the internist, one Dr. Prannay Oza, on admission that drugs should not be pumped indiscriminately and yet they did. I was happy to note that Dr. Oza, second in command at the RVCC had BHMS degree and I had discussed with him in detail what medicines I had given to Ronald in consultation with his former teachers, Dr. K.N.Kasad, MBBS, MF Hom, D.Sc., and Dr. Kishore Mehta, MD. I wonder how Dr. Prannay Oza, a Homeopath, can prescribe Allopathic medicines, which is against law.

 

If various sophisticated tests cannot establish the cause of the fever and various medicines cannot bring down the fever, I wonder whether Allopathy is a science or quackery. Finally, in the discharge note they wrote, Diagnosis: Acute Pancreatitis (which is a symptom), Acute Renal Failure (due to what?), Multi Organ Failure (was it due to sudden onslaught of aggressive treatment?) and Leptospirosis (?) based on Leptospira Antibody IgM which showed 10.9 of observed value on panbio units (9.00 to 11.0 is equivocal). Leptospira Antibody IgM could be positive due to other acute infections like Q fever, Toxoplasma, and Mycoplasma. Equivocal means neither here, nor there. Also, I argued that Leptospirosis occurs mostly in monsoon, that too if one has a wound and one were to wade through sewage or animal excreta or urine (nothing of which Ronald had done) and has a full cycle of 9 days. I also queried, how could Leptospirosis fever last for 25 days? To all these searching questions the RVCC doctors had no answers.

 

I lost my temper and told the fleecing doctors (because the hospital expenses in two days were almost Rs.1,10,000, cash down payment) that this ‘hit and miss diagnosis and hit and miss treatment’ will sink my son. So, I organised a fully equipped, airconditioned Ambulance with a doctor and a nurse and we started from RVCC Malad, at 11.30 PM, for KEM Parel (total distance between two hospitals about 20 kms). At the time of discharge from RVCC, Ronald passed his last stool and the hospital even argued with the Ambulance assistants over a bedsheet. They removed hospital clothes and put my son naked in the Ambulance. What an assault on the patient's dignity!

 

Midway to the KEM, intubated Ronald opened his eyes and looked all around and shook his head and closed his eyes (I think it is at that time his soul escaped through his eyes). One of his Faculty from Nirmala Niketan, Sr. Anita Chettiar, who was with me in the Ambulance kept urging Ronald to fight on and kept praying to the Holy Spirit to help him. On admission to MICU of KEM, the doctors declared that his heart had stopped. But they (and me) tried to revive Ronald for half an hour, while Anita kept praying fervently.

 

We did all that we could to save our son from this mysterious fever, the cause of which has not been identified inspite of so-called sophisticated findings. I wanted to donate Ronald’s organs (including cornea which we had willed long ago), but the doctors at the KEM said that in septicaemia organs cannot be used. Then I opted for post mortem, the final report of which is awaited. But the provisional cause of death given is: “Acute renal failure in a case of acute febrile illness”.

 

We cremated Ronald on 23rd February evening at an electric crematorium without religious mumbo-jumbo. In five minutes my handsome, healthy, young boy was turned to ashes. Part of his ashes we immersed into the Gorai Sea -- completing the process of mingling five elements into five elements.

 

Looking back, it appears that Modern Medicine has been totally commercialised to fleece the relatives rather than to treat the patient with timely management. It has only antibiotics, more antibiotics, steroids, anti-retrovirals and chemotherapeutic agents. Occasionally synthetic vitamins. The consultants know precious little about bed-side manners, they do not even consider it necessary to consult the relatives or answer their questions. The institution and the doctors have totally lost clinical touch, humanism and compassion.

 

Commenting on my son’s death retired judge B.N.Dongre lamented, “Today doctors have become mercenaries”. He said that he too was fleeced to the tune of Rs.6 lakhs by doctors, last year, who kept on doing experiments on his wife, so much so that he finally got her home and she passed away after 15 days. “If she was in the hospital for another 15 days, the expenses would have mounted to Rs.20 lakhs and above”, he rued.

 

Mr. Dongre, 81, added, that one can be cautious about advocates who wear black coats, for they are known to defend clients for wrong deeds, some times. “But when doctors wearing white coats indulge in black deeds, and fleece even good persons and professional colleagues like you, it is about time we denounced this menace of modern medicine with big time insurance racket, medicines at premium to be bought only from the hospital chemist and unnecessary tests whether required or not”.

 

WHAT IS DESTINY?

Was Ronald, our first son, born on 5th May, 1982, destined to die -- 24 years and 9 months later -- on 23rd February 2007? And why, when he lived a clean and healthy life throughout?

 

In retrospect, the following hints suggest the cruel hand of destiny.

 

(a) His friends who had assembled to bid him a final goodbye reported with tearful eyes that four years ago he had more than once told them that his life was short.

 

(b) His girl friend corroborated that more than once he had told her, too, of his short life.

 

© Few days into bed with fever, Ronald insisted to call his uncles (my two brothers Arthur and Benny).

 

(d) Sr. Anita Chettiar, his faculty at the Nirmala Niketan, who did so much during Ronald’s illness, had written to him an email on 06/02 saying that she would like to propose his name as the President of Nirmala Niketan Alumni Association, to which he made his younger brother (Robin) reply, “I am critically ill and cannot commit”.

 

(e) Ronald also made some comments which we brushed aside as delirium. He said to his mother, “If I die, please distribute the money in my bank account to three of my friends, and one NGO”, and he also discussed the amount to be donated. This we have already done.

 

(f) He also told his mother, “you have been such a good mother, but now you will have to look after me like a child” and “if I die I would like to be reborn to you only”. I have since talked to Ronald in meditation that I am not going to release his mother so soon and he should not tug her, or else it will mean a long wait for him.

 

(g) And these two shocking statements, “how will I come out of this bed” (may be he was seeing the hospital bed with gadgets, painful procedures, etc. and “see all my friends have gathered for my funeral” (atleast twelve days before his actual passing away).

 

(h) Ronald also told me, before he lost his speech on or around 16th February, “Daddy you will become a great leader of India”. Those were his last words and my son never spoke again though he would listen and respond to everything that we said.

 

Our promising son is no more. Good friends keep phoning, visiting and trying to engage us in talk to lighten our loss by telling us various incidences from their lives, and quotes. I have selected the following two quotes to sum up our tryst with destiny.

 

“The simple physician is not aware the malady is deep in the heart”. Guru Nanak.

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come”. Ravindranath Tagore.

 

Was the fever mysterious or is life itself a big mystery? Mystery is a merry-go-round that makes us dizzy and we go to sleep; some to get up the next morning refreshed, others like my son who do not see another dawn.

 

“Life is short, you may also not get another human life, so make the most of it” is the message that emerges.

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr.Rebello,

I was wrestling in my mind whether to reply you through web post

or individual email and decided to tell my views though i am not a

medical professional.

Mr.Kumaramangalam, a cabinet minister in NDA government also had

mysterious fever after his return from a trip to andamans and the

healthy man was admitted to delhi appollo a 5* hospital for VIPs.They

also carried out all the tests and could not diagonise.finally they

shifted him to AIIMs, but it was too late as he has already was

bombarded with somany anti/biotics, his liver failed and he died. But

during this time his blood was taken to madras on the advice of his

personal friend and there they diagnised it as a case of

liptoporosis, an infection due to rats urine. I could not understand

why apollo of delhi could not digonise it. It was a misfortune he

was a cabinet minister and he has to die.

When my daughter was diagonised as schizophrenic, i didnot even

know the word, its spelling and when i was initially treating her

through homeopathy, i faced lot of opposition from my family, friends

and relatives( all well meaning ofcourse). But i had immense faith in

homeopathy and i tried the best which i could manage without any

cure.Meanwhile we were doing the rounds of temples,darghas, and

ofcourse churches. From saibabs vibhuthi, hanuman flower from jammu i

even had lourdes holy water and special sand of river jordan etc

etc.Meanwhile i started reading bible regularely to find some answer.

I got some in the form of verses St.mathew 17 (14-21).

Please read StMathew 10 verse 8. The power to heal is given to the

disciples by son of god. But they could not cure the mentallyill

person above.Then i had another lesson in St.mathew 15 (22-28.)the

lesson of FAITH. If disciples like st.John,SSt.peter,mathew could

not cure some disceases inspite of the authority given to them

(mathew 10/8), then i started looking at the psychiatrists with lot

of compassion. one has to accept that there are disceases still not

in the knowledge of man.

Meanwhile i got lot of flack from my relatives for being so

adamant about not consulting an allopath and not taking to a

psychiatrist. Then when i took to a psychiatrist, i am thankful that

she was brutally honest . she just told me that this discease is not

curable and she can only provide pllatative cure which may work and

may not work. I hated for her honesty but i cried one of the

bitterest cries i have had.Why Me? i was not that bad person and why

me? i just could not accept my only daughter has to have this

discease. Meanwhile i mechanically followed all the relatives and and

finally i landed up at NIMHANS which is the best allopathic

institution and fortunately the drug CLOZAPINE GOT discoverd that

time and she could reach a semblance of calm but with lot of

disablity. Taunts about going late to psychiatrists, genetics and

everything is thrown at me whenver i have some minor argument with my

wife.

i only want you to know and feel that YOU LOVED RONALD AND WILL

CONTINUE TO LOVE HIS EVERY SMALL MEMORY THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE. In this

love, may be you find a CURE for strangers you donot know.

finally i ask you to forgive people whom you may tend to blame for

this unfortunate mishap.

with kind regards.

 

, " Dr. Leo Rebello "

<leorebello wrote:

>

>

> Here is what Carol Roberts, MD has to say on my article Mysterious

Fever.

> Also enclosing the final cover / front and back / for your perusal.

>

>

> -

> Carol Roberts drleorebello

> Friday, April 13, 2007 9:13 AM Re: Fw: Mysterious

Fever

>

>

> My dearest Leo,

> I cannot tell you how much your experience has moved me, as has

your analysis of the medical situation. No one knows the full extent

of the ignorance and the rapaciousness of the system until they are

confronted with it.

>

> The story is appalling, the situation unthinkable. I am so

sorry for your loss. Of course I remember my visit to your home and

your delightful family. I still have pictures from that time.

>

> May I have your permission to send your message to some of my

friends and associates? I know they will find it instructional. The

more people that recognize the damage done by a capitalist medical

model, the sooner we will get substantial change. Clearly this is one

way that Ronald's tragic death can be turned to good.

>

> I pray you will find peace in your heart soon and that you find

solace from your pain in continuing the crusade that has occupied

your life.

>

> With love to you, Kashmira and your younger boy (not a boy anymore,

no doubt!).

> Carol

>

>

> MYSTERIOUS FEVER

>

> By Dr. Leo Rebello

>

> www.healthwisdom.org

>

>

>

>

>

> Our elder son Ronald passed away on 23/02/07 at the KEM Hospital,

Bombay, on admission at about 1.00 in the morning. The MICU of the

KEM had better facilities than the fleecing hospital (Riddhi Vinayak

Critical Care Hospital, in Malad, run by one Dr.V.S.Goyal, MD, DM)

where Ronald's condition deteriorated obviously because of carpet

bombing by weapons of mass destruction called the broad spectrum

antibiotics. Without consulting us they put central intravenous line

and infused something like 20 bottles of glucose saline, 3 bottles of

blood A+, several injections and medicines through Ryle's tube in 48

hours that he was there.

>

>

>

> The fever began all of a sudden on 29/01 and it was 103o/104oF,

periodically coming down to 101oF due to enemas, compresses,

homeopathic remedies and proper diet personally fed by me and the

patient's mother.

>

>

>

> Even though we treated Ronald at home till 19th February, we did

several tests, some thrice over, on the advice of seniors who kept

visiting our home. Widal test was negative, no malaria parasite, no

dengue, no Australia antigen, no infective hepatitis, no meningitis,

no tuberculosis, and no pneumonia. HIV test, in which I do not

believe, was also done and that too was negative. Digital X'Ray PA

view of lungs was normal. Blood studies were normal. Blood culture of

seven days was also normal.

>

>

>

> Sonography of the Abdomen and Pelvis (taken on 19/02 evening, on

admission to Vibha Family Care Hospital) showed all organs perfect

and normal and no ascites. Ultrafast multislice multiplanar plain CT

scan of brain was performed on 22/02/07. It said: " There is no focal

area of altered attenuation in the supra or infratentorial

parenchyma. Ventricles, sulci and cisterns are normal. No midline

shift seen. Visualized skull base and paranasal sinuses appear

normal. Conclusion: No focal parenchymal abnormality is detected " .

>

>

>

> Swallowing reflex was normal, urine voided was sufficient to the

liquid taken by mouth. RBC count was 4.46 and haemoglobin was 13.5,

which later dropped to 7.5. We shifted him to RVCC on 20/02 because

of sudden drop in BP - 90/40 mmHg. In RVCC they repeated several

tests, several times and started bombarding medicines, even though I

argued with the hospital authorities that antibiotics can help only

in bacterial infection, not in case of viral attack. I also urged the

doctors to look for heavymetal-poisoning or kapha (phlegm) having

gone to the brain and the cause of sudden loss of RBCs. Could it be

due to gastro-intestinal bleeding? But there was no occult blood in

the stools or no blood in urine. I asked them, when RBCs were being

destroyed and vitality down, was it wise to bombard with so many

medicines which may prove lethal? Ronald slumped into an unconscious

state instead of improving, as hospital bills went up astronomically.

>

>

>

> They also pressurised us to do lumbar puncture for meningitis (even

though brain scan and another X-Ray of chest was normal). The CSF

study results, too, turned out normal. Then they frightened us that

his creatinine level was going up and put him on dialysis. Thereafter

they declared that it was acute multi organ failure. If on 19/02

night, scan shows all organs functioning normally, and on 20/02

another scan shows multi organ failure, then either your tests are

faulty or your treatment is the cause of the multi organ failure, I

said. If you give so many medicines to someone who had not taken

anything except sweet pills of homeopathy all these 25 years, this

would naturally happen, I stressed. I had told the internist, one Dr.

Prannay Oza, on admission that drugs should not be pumped

indiscriminately and yet they did. I was happy to note that Dr. Oza,

second in command at the RVCC had BHMS degree and I had discussed

with him in detail what medicines I had given to Ronald in

consultation with his former teachers, Dr. K.N.Kasad, MBBS, MF Hom,

D.Sc., and Dr. Kishore Mehta, MD. I wonder how Dr. Prannay Oza, a

Homeopath, can prescribe Allopathic medicines, which is against law.

>

>

>

> If various sophisticated tests cannot establish the cause of the

fever and various medicines cannot bring down the fever, I wonder

whether Allopathy is a science or quackery. Finally, in the

discharge note they wrote, Diagnosis: Acute Pancreatitis (which is a

symptom), Acute Renal Failure (due to what?), Multi Organ Failure

(was it due to sudden onslaught of aggressive treatment?) and

Leptospirosis (?) based on Leptospira Antibody IgM which showed 10.9

of observed value on panbio units (9.00 to 11.0 is equivocal).

Leptospira Antibody IgM could be positive due to other acute

infections like Q fever, Toxoplasma, and Mycoplasma. Equivocal means

neither here, nor there. Also, I argued that Leptospirosis occurs

mostly in monsoon, that too if one has a wound and one were to wade

through sewage or animal excreta or urine (nothing of which Ronald

had done) and has a full cycle of 9 days. I also queried, how could

Leptospirosis fever last for 25 days? To all these searching

questions the RVCC doctors had no answers.

>

>

>

> I lost my temper and told the fleecing doctors (because the

hospital expenses in two days were almost Rs.1,10,000, cash down

payment) that this 'hit and miss diagnosis and hit and miss

treatment' will sink my son. So, I organised a fully equipped,

airconditioned Ambulance with a doctor and a nurse and we started

from RVCC Malad, at 11.30 PM, for KEM Parel (total distance between

two hospitals about 20 kms). At the time of discharge from RVCC,

Ronald passed his last stool and the hospital even argued with the

Ambulance assistants over a bedsheet. They removed hospital clothes

and put my son naked in the Ambulance. What an assault on the

patient's dignity!

>

>

>

> Midway to the KEM, intubated Ronald opened his eyes and looked all

around and shook his head and closed his eyes (I think it is at that

time his soul escaped through his eyes). One of his Faculty from

Nirmala Niketan, Sr. Anita Chettiar, who was with me in the Ambulance

kept urging Ronald to fight on and kept praying to the Holy Spirit to

help him. On admission to MICU of KEM, the doctors declared that his

heart had stopped. But they (and me) tried to revive Ronald for half

an hour, while Anita kept praying fervently.

>

>

>

> We did all that we could to save our son from this mysterious

fever, the cause of which has not been identified inspite of so-

called sophisticated findings. I wanted to donate Ronald's organs

(including cornea which we had willed long ago), but the doctors at

the KEM said that in septicaemia organs cannot be used. Then I opted

for post mortem, the final report of which is awaited. But the

provisional cause of death given is: " Acute renal failure in a case

of acute febrile illness " .

>

>

>

> We cremated Ronald on 23rd February evening at an electric

crematorium without religious mumbo-jumbo. In five minutes my

handsome, healthy, young boy was turned to ashes. Part of his ashes

we immersed into the Gorai Sea -- completing the process of mingling

five elements into five elements.

>

>

>

> Looking back, it appears that Modern Medicine has been totally

commercialised to fleece the relatives rather than to treat the

patient with timely management. It has only antibiotics, more

antibiotics, steroids, anti-retrovirals and chemotherapeutic agents.

Occasionally synthetic vitamins. The consultants know precious little

about bed-side manners, they do not even consider it necessary to

consult the relatives or answer their questions. The institution and

the doctors have totally lost clinical touch, humanism and

compassion.

>

>

>

> Commenting on my son's death retired judge B.N.Dongre

lamented, " Today doctors have become mercenaries " . He said that he

too was fleeced to the tune of Rs.6 lakhs by doctors, last year, who

kept on doing experiments on his wife, so much so that he finally got

her home and she passed away after 15 days. " If she was in the

hospital for another 15 days, the expenses would have mounted to

Rs.20 lakhs and above " , he rued.

>

>

>

> Mr. Dongre, 81, added, that one can be cautious about advocates who

wear black coats, for they are known to defend clients for wrong

deeds, some times. " But when doctors wearing white coats indulge in

black deeds, and fleece even good persons and professional colleagues

like you, it is about time we denounced this menace of modern

medicine with big time insurance racket, medicines at premium to be

bought only from the hospital chemist and unnecessary tests whether

required or not " .

>

>

>

> WHAT IS DESTINY?

>

> Was Ronald, our first son, born on 5th May, 1982, destined to die --

24 years and 9 months later -- on 23rd February 2007? And why, when

he lived a clean and healthy life throughout?

>

>

>

> In retrospect, the following hints suggest the cruel hand of

destiny.

>

>

>

> (a) His friends who had assembled to bid him a final goodbye

reported with tearful eyes that four years ago he had more than once

told them that his life was short.

>

>

>

> (b) His girl friend corroborated that more than once he had told

her, too, of his short life.

>

>

>

> © Few days into bed with fever, Ronald insisted to call his

uncles (my two brothers Arthur and Benny).

>

>

>

> (d) Sr. Anita Chettiar, his faculty at the Nirmala Niketan, who did

so much during Ronald's illness, had written to him an email on

06/02 saying that she would like to propose his name as the President

of Nirmala Niketan Alumni Association, to which he made his younger

brother (Robin) reply, " I am critically ill and cannot commit " .

>

>

>

> (e) Ronald also made some comments which we brushed aside as

delirium. He said to his mother, " If I die, please distribute the

money in my bank account to three of my friends, and one NGO " , and he

also discussed the amount to be donated. This we have already done.

>

>

>

> (f) He also told his mother, " you have been such a good mother, but

now you will have to look after me like a child " and " if I die I

would like to be reborn to you only " . I have since talked to Ronald

in meditation that I am not going to release his mother so soon and

he should not tug her, or else it will mean a long wait for him.

>

>

>

> (g) And these two shocking statements, " how will I come out of this

bed " (may be he was seeing the hospital bed with gadgets, painful

procedures, etc. and " see all my friends have gathered for my

funeral " (atleast twelve days before his actual passing away).

>

>

>

> (h) Ronald also told me, before he lost his speech on or around

16th February, " Daddy you will become a great leader of India " . Those

were his last words and my son never spoke again though he would

listen and respond to everything that we said.

>

>

>

> Our promising son is no more. Good friends keep phoning, visiting

and trying to engage us in talk to lighten our loss by telling us

various incidences from their lives, and quotes. I have selected the

following two quotes to sum up our tryst with destiny.

>

>

>

> " The simple physician is not aware the malady is deep in the

heart " . Guru Nanak.

>

> " Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp

because dawn has come " . Ravindranath Tagore.

>

>

>

> Was the fever mysterious or is life itself a big mystery? Mystery

is a merry-go-round that makes us dizzy and we go to sleep; some to

get up the next morning refreshed, others like my son who do not see

another dawn.

>

>

>

> " Life is short, you may also not get another human life, so make

the most of it " is the message that emerges.

>