Celia's Friends

She is Celia. Her condition is somewhat parlous as the primary specialist who investigated her body let us know. A typical occurrence of of spina bifida. That was the first verdict. Still opinions changed in a few days. However not the gravity of her case.They brought the case sheets from Lovelorn Hospitals . More docs came and went. .As a duty doctor I referred the case to my professor. My professor, still alive. A septuagenarian. He himself turned into a less healthy state as far as body is concerned. He told me that the chances of recovery are quite high, Two specialists checked the patient. They moved her to the special ward. Her relatives from the city came to see her. It was somewhat late when they came, on the grounds that the train was late and they didn't have money for the air tickets. So they arrived late. Celia was at first upset and after some days it turned into a daily schedule. The therapist, a lady in late thirties came every evening and worked with her. At that time, she was led to a special part of the porch , from where she could see the setting sun. In the golden rays of the sun, her face and clothes gave a halo that was wonderful to look at. Then she came back to her bed ..

Since Celia was a decent young lady and they all evinced compassion for her. She lived her early years in an island that was the meeting junction of two streams. Towards the northern side, there was a mountain that was 14000 feet high. In the stormy seasons, the water of the rivers will go sloppy and the waterways will infringe the banks, and the paddy fields in the neighborhood would suffer.. Further, the Irrigation Department will give compensation for the cultivators. Celia was conceived as the second daughter of one such cultivator. Her mom worked in a manufacturing plant. She went out in the early morning and returned by night, at around 8 p.m. This was the daily practice except for the three rainy months when the plant closed early and all the workers returned home early... So Celia was for the most part under the stewardship of her auntie who lived in next house. There was no fence between the houses... The auntie's husband was in the capital. He was a legal counselor and he wanted to get name and needed to have more cases. So he lived in the capital. There was a recreation center in the region of the civil court. At around ten o'clock in the morning , he will go to the recreation park and sit on the concrete seats. There were green and red buildings at the opposite end of the romping park. Usually a few birds will come and eat from under the trees. He will take a gander at the birds. They were pigeons. Some people approached the pigeons with deference and fed them grains of corn. He will watch the pigeons and after that go to the court...

Celia was not aware of her malady which was slowly debilitating her body for about a year.There was no symptoms in the first year. Slowly the symptoms came into the observation of all and she was taken to the main hospital in the town.

In the long run she was taken to the city and went from specialist to specialist till she for all intents and purposes finished in the infirmary. There she bumped into her companions and talked. The specialists and medical attendants turned into her companions....

---[From a Work of Fiction in progress]