Sunday, September 5, 2010

The World is Calling


31st August and 1st September became quite a discovery for me. A random Indian morning...a day full of accommodation and assimilation...no hopes what so ever in the system...bad roads, disregard of traffic rules, commonwealth screw up news, and many such things, which didn't quite make a difference any more.

The big end of the day, however, came as quite a revelation.

My Bua had been diagnosed with dengue and admitted in a hospital in the middle of the night and needed 4 B+ blood male donors between 19 to 50 years of age before 6am. The frantic search began. My parents went to the hospital to arrange. Meanwhile me and my sister (Bua's younger daughter) frantically called every one we could to come and donate. the hospital kept rejecting our donors on many counts and the clock kept ticking. i had, in between all this commotion, managed to tweet our urgent need and my number. honestly i didn't expect much out of it. what with it being the middle of the night and who would be kind enough to take the effort..that too on a twitter call.

But when every thing failed..twitter came to rescue. @ankitanks came all over from Rohini to Patparganj to donate blood. and he was the most compassionate person i had ever come across..just my age..22..ambitious...independent..and compassionate. it was so unreal..i found it hard to believe. but by morning...when all our donors had been rejected, and we had lost all faith...my phone rang. it was an sms by @itscreation. he msgd me the number of a service which provided us donors of any blood group we wanted. and it worked. we found another donor through it.

by sunrise. @ankitanks was here and he was fresh and bright. you can see him in the picture above, filling out the donor form. he sent his blood for testing by 7:45 and waited till 11:30 for the results. meanwhile my dad asked me about the status, and i said "the world is calling" ...all my tweeps were re tweeting my need, smsing me and calling me! @sparklinguy @kyrasinging2 and @itscreation kept calling me and helping me find donors and they did not rest until i told them that alas @ankitanks 's blood was the only blood that got accepted.

My buddy @waseembits who is also a doctor, n a twipal since real real long, called my sister and enquired about her health statistics and wished her well. He prays for her druing ramzaan.

Wow. what a world. complaining, as we go about our day, we one day do realize, that the goodness isn't yet dead. people are compassionate and human. people we need but do not deserve...like a silent guardian. i for one am proud of my generation. my dad is now proud too. May be it was this positive vibe that my Bua started recovering that very day. as of now she is on 82k platelets count and hopefully will fully recover soon. i have no words to describe how moved i was that day. people tweeting and apologizing for not having B+ blood group..asking again and again how is she. i don't care how good a write up this post is...this story deserves to be told.

i am scared to death by a needle...but come what may, i am a healthy person and i am now going to come out and donate. here is to the lost, derailed, fun loving, tweeting generation, it is also a giving generation. cheers to us. go out and donate. i am sure it will be a wonderful experience.

7 comments:

  1. Guys...if u see this post ending with the words "my buddy" its incomplete. Smthing technically wrong. Will fix asap. Sorry!

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  3. one suggestion, never donate blood on a blood donation camp, reason is: if, in emergency, some one needsn blood than you wont be able to donate, if you have donated lately.

    this happened with me, one of my friend's relative needed any blood group, in exchange of AB+ve, atleast 10 units & many people were turned down by this reason, that they recently donated blood in a camp.

    so dont donate in camp, save your blood for emergencies, like these.

    Doctor's say, you can donate blood once in 3 months.

    Regards,
    @itsCreation

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  4. I just wanna tell one thing. Believe in the almighty God. Even at the time when all doors are shut, one door is still open and waiting for u. But its we who have to search for it.
    God Bless her and recover her soon !!


    Wishes
    @prashant_gaur05

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  5. @Manpreet Bedi, though my counter suggestion may not change your mind but donating blood at a blood camp is perfectly fine and should be encouraged more, NOT discouraged.

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  6. Thanks guys for ur luvly comments n wishes..n thanks for taking out the time to read my blog.

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  7. phew... i wish i was there to support u all...

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