I have written in the blog about pneomococi Meningitis at the age of 32 affecting me and my survival etc after medical care,later medications,etc..
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With extreme sorrow and grief I state the story of my elder brother who fell a victim to paratyphoid fever leading to Meningitis..in 1960 at Bombay....
He was just 32,working in Director of Food and Civil Supplies Department ,Bombay in 1960 and prior to that he was under Training in Customs and Central Excise Department, Ratnagiri where he was unable to continue since the Department retrenched surplus employees. .He got married in 1958.....at Cannanore,Kerala to C.R.Kalyani, whose father C.R.Ramanathan was a Resident Electric Engineer,Kerala Electricity Board .In May 1960,.having fixed a rented house at Kalina ,Chembur ,Bombay for his wife and son seven months old to join ,he was eagerly waiting to see his wife and child whom he had seen for 3days after delivery......A couple of days before,we got the news he was laid up with paratyphoid fever..
Later it was known typhoid, pneumonia and tuberculosis can lead to meningitis....may be others too....leading to such a disease affecting brain and spinal cord...It is surprising although he had typhoid earlier it occured again as paratyphoid...possibly infection through water, milk,etc,,we donot know....
Later it was known typhoid, pneumonia and tuberculosis can lead to meningitis....may be others too....leading to such a disease affecting brain and spinal cord...It is surprising although he had typhoid earlier it occured again as paratyphoid...possibly infection through water, milk,etc,,we donot know....
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On 7 th morning June,1960...we got the telegram from Bombay , when we were at Trichur . Our chinnamanni who was with the child at Trichur, .getting ready to leave for Bombay within 2 days ....she opened and read the telegram...Kuttan passed away...7 AM today...
Sorry........ later we heard he was admitted in some hospital after his being in bed at Periyappa"s house at Ghatkopar Rajewadi Estate where he had gone feeling uneasy and with fever a couple of days ago.....,etc but perhaps nearest relatives and proper Doctors were not with him to give proper medical care for the dreadful disease. May be had his wife and son reached him earlier, he would have survived ..A lumbar puncture and antibiotic injections would have saved him ...The family was left in sorrow for years..he was second child to my parents among 13..fondly remembered by all...
I was 13 years then and all my younger brother sisters and elders were all children studying in school who shifted to Bangalore in 1960 where our eldest brother was working as appa and amma were shocked and unable to live in Trichur with the shadow of son"s death at early age...Ofcourse our family grew up expanded in Bangalore etc and that is the later part of history .
During his visit previous year to Trichur I remember my Anna telling our periya manni.....one person in our family should study medicine and become a Doctor.... Ofcourse his wish or desire was achieved. .. He was a Commerce Graduate and his son is a well placed Chartered Accountant practising in Palakkad.I may mention his wife Chinna Manni aged 20 at the time of his death, studied B Ed , BSC , etc and worked as a teacher till retirement in Palghat...
Time heals our sorrow and we still remember him......
This is the sad story....
A large family...bound together by love and affection among all.. .parents went through many good days and bad days,they brought up the children.... yet they never expressed about sorrow or grief.... but made us grow.. gave us education, got us married to respectable and homeloving women,....saw all daughters married .....who too encountered problems bravely... We grow further....
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