On the 16th of October at 7:37pm, in Ahmedabad, India, directly infant of Safal Apartments 1, an impetuos car driver caused a dreadful accident. The sun had just set and it was quite dark when a caretaker, named Daskha was pushing an old woman— that had just recently suffered from a brain stroke which caused left side paralysis in her body— along the road to fetch some groceries and medicine. When suddenly a car came from the wrong direction, since it was a one way road and knocked the wheelchair over. The old woman fell forwards and hit her head on the ground, causing profuse bleeding. The careless driver rolled the window down to take a look at the consequences of his action and upon seeing the old woman placed back in her chair, with just a wound on her head, the driver quickly apologized to them and drove off, blatantly.
‘’ I immediately took her to the hospital nearby to get stitches for her wound, however it wasn’t a serious injury, so I was relieved,’’ the caretaker reported.
Later that night, the caretaker and the woman’s family noticed that her blood pressure and oxygen levels were dropping and later she started to breathe heavily, when she was rushed to the Sal Hospital near their house. Dr. Ajit Sowani, the head of neuro physics, then revealed that she had suffering from a brain hemorrhage due to blood clot formed in her head. This disclosure left the family in tribulation.
‘’At that point, we were given the choice to either let her go, or to agree to the surgery that had very low survival rates,’’ said the eldest member in the family.
‘’I don’t know what to pray for, to keep her alive or to relieve her from this pain,’’ added the woman’s daughter-in-law.
The family then collectively took a decision to go for the operation. The surgery took around 24 hours, when the doctor told the family that the operation was successful, although they had to cut a massive part of her skull and the flesh on top of it out, in order to remove the blood clot effectively. The woman was left close to unconscious, she failed to recognize her family for a while and was miserably debilitated. She was as frail as a feather.
‘’The accident wasn’t the only thing that caused the brain hemorrhage, her previous medical history has contributed significantly, she had previously suffered from a stroke and most stroke patients are prone to get blood clots, which is why we prescribed blood thinners for her, to reduce the chances for her blood to clot, however this was one of the key reason’s to the hemorrhage. If she wasn’t on blood thinners then her wound would clot easily, but in this case her blood continued to flow.’’ Dr. Ajit Sowani said.
‘’I agree with what Dr. Sovani has to say, although I think if that driver didn’t knock her over, this wouldn’t have happened,’’ reported one of the family members.
This was quite a turmoil for this family, since they have already gone through so much, all because of a careless driver. Why does she have to pay such a big price for someone else’s mistake?
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