Lawbook & Stethoscope

Chapter 6

Rishi's pov:
I was trying to convince Shreya from long time but she is not accepting.

"See, I can understand how close she is but you need to eat to support her. If she open her eyes, we will allow you inside and you need to give her confidence. I already told you that it will take two days and if you continue to be like this, then I need to admit you beside her" I said more politely this time. She starred at me.

"I want to see her now. Please help me" she asked still wiping her tears. I sighed.

"Fine, I will take you inside only if you come with me and eat something" I said carefully.

"Okay fine" she said standing up. I followed her to the canteen and bought her noodles. She ate silently and fastly.

After completing half the plate, she stood up making me sigh. Though I insisted her to eat more, she was so adamant so I took her again to the ICU.

I took her inside and asked her to wear the scrubs while I too wore it.

"Listen, you are not allowed to cry inside as it will break her mentally. You can talk with her but don't cry. Please" I said and she nodded.

We both went inside noticing that Rahul was injecting fluids into her iv. He looked at us. He glared at me after noticing Shreya. We usually don't allow someone inside this early but I didn't have any choice.

The moment I turned and saw her, I regretted for taking her inside. She was sobbing so loudly. Rahul was glaring at me while I struck between these two.

I kept my hand at her mouth and sushed her but she didn't stopped so I tried to drag her outside and she stood still.

"Shreya, don't cry. If you wanna cry, go out and cry. If you do like this, then we can't assure you anything" Rahul said slowly. It somewhat made her cry slower.

"Sorry, I... I can't able to see her like this. I can't loose her" she sobbed slowly covering her own mouth.

"Go and talk with her slowly without crying. Give your positive vibes" he said slowly taking her.

She cried hardly and silently after touching her face. It's truly hurts to see our closed one like this as her whole body was covered with stitches and bandages. After controlling her sobs, she tried to talk holding her hands.

"Rithu, rithu, you need to wake up from this bed soon. I'm waiting for you Rithu. I can't live without you and I....." I pulled her this side. She looked at me.

"No negative words, it's enough. You go and wait outside" I said sternly. She glared at me first and then dashed out immediately.

"Why this unnecessary thing?" he asked me once she left.

"She was so stubborn to handle. She ate only because I bought her inside" I said checking her vitals.

"No change till now" he said obviously.

"It will change in two days" I whispered and we both went out after assigning a nurse to take care of her.

Shreya didn't looked at us and sat there silently. Rahul looked at me again signalling me to talk to her. He went to his cabin and I again sat beside her. I convinced her somehow.

Rahul's pov:
At night, Shreya was adamant to leave for home so we left her alone.

Another day passed treating her but no improvements at all. Rishi was always with Shreya convincing her.

The next day, I am at my cabin doing some office works but my mind was totally off.

Suddenly my pager beeped making me alert. I immediately ran to the icu leaving everything.

Shreya was standing and looking at me with her feary eyes. I went in without giving her any attention.

I saw Rishi's figure and went closer. Rithika's body was shaking vigorously.

"What happened?" I asked stepping closer to him.

"She got seizure because of the high dosage" he said trying to check her heart beat. Nurse was trying to control her body.

I immediately took anti-seizure and injected it into her iv. Her body again went to sleeping state aftet a minute. He deeply checked all her vitals.

"We have to change the medicines because she can't resist high doses" he said seriously and I nodded.

He then took her blood and handed it to the nurse. We both went out seeing a scared Shreya.

"What happened to her?" she asked.

"She don't have any immunity in her body to heal herself apart from the medicines we are giving so she got seizure because of the high dosages and now we are planned to change her medicine" Rishi said to her as she look shocked.

"Please treat her even if it costs more. I'm ready to do anything. She didn't got the chance to drink her mother's milk and we didn't even took any vaccines from childhood so she might not have her immune power" she said blankly.

"WHAT?!" we both asked in unison.

"Vaccines are more important and even Government offering all the orphan children to get them freely nowadays then how you both didn't get anything?" Rishi asked her seriously which I too wanted to ask her.

"Only few children in our orphan got everything since they have to show the details to the government because they have to pay money eventhough it is free. Few government officials are still expecting corruption so we didn't get anything" she said politely.

We both were shocked hearing this new peace of information but that's when something popped up in my mind. I looked at Rishi.

"We have to change her medicine then according to that. We need to take it slowly. Shreya, did she went to hospital before for anything?" I asked her. She shook her head.

"The first hospital she have visited in our lifetime is this one. I too went to some clinic two or three times for my fever but she didn't even allowed me to take her to any hospital if she get fever. She will take rest for two days and then automatically fever will reduce" she said shocking us.

Her body is new to allopathic medicines that's why high dosages are not working in her case.

"We have to make her respond to our medicines so we need to start it slowly" Rishi said completely understanding me.

After nodding at Shreya, we both again went inside and discussed about the medicines we have to give her.

Let's see how that goes?