Indisposed

Shekhawat

After Banoo Apa, it was Shekhawat today who has become a cause for concern. Early morning, even before the exercises had begun, he was seen sitting quietly on a bench, wincing in pain. At one point, he looked skyward with a grimace and blacked out for a few moments. “The pain is unbearable,” he said when he came around.
Inquiries revealed that the infection in the sutures on his chest have started smarting. The sutures were from the cardiac by-pass undergone four years back. Last year, he had foolishly got his chest hair shaved by an idiot in his village and since then there has been an ugly wound and pus formation around the sutures.
Doctors in Mumbai have advised surgery to drain out the pus, but it ought to be done, preferably by the surgeons at Asian Heart Institute, Bandra who had done the by-pass.

Saluting the sun god in the rains

It is said to be a "minor surgery" but Shekhawat has been dilly-dallying and relying on some antibiotics and pain-killers prescribed in the interim. Clearly, those have outlived their efficacy.
“I need to take an appointment at Asian Heart,” he pleaded this morning. “Otherwise no doctor there will see me.”
By then Shekhawat, on the advice of Yusuf Rassiwala, Qadir Bano and others, had withdrawn from the exercises and was resting on a bench. After some time, he got up and said he needed to go home. "I can't take it any longer," he declared.
Shekhawat’s problem is that except for an ailing wife, he has no one at home. His son and family are currently vacationing in the U.S. and Canada. He needs someone to escort him to the hospital. Even the act of booking an appointment with a surgeon there is a formidable task for him.
Given these inhibitions, it would be nice if someone for the Club could step in and volunteer to take care of him for the moment. All Shekhawat needs is a presence – the company of a person he can rely on and feel reassured. That’s all.

Lt Col Angad Singh (rtd):
Shekhawat deserves help and certainly a good samaritan who can find time to get an appointment and take him to the hospital. It is the need of the hour. We must help each other.

Siba Prasad Maitra:
I am really sorry to learn about Mr Shekhawat's health condition from the blog. I reached for exercise a little late and did not ask anyone about his absence. Otherwise I would have visited his house today.