Readymade Son !!!( Part -1)

Mrs. Acharya was trying to listen, very patiently, as the newly appointed intern girl Sonali, the daughter of a gentleman of an old acquaintance, assigned under her during her training period kept on chattering about her family, house, even her pet dog.

Within all that blabbering, the particular phrase " my brother whom you must have seen in my father's shop", caught Mrs.Acharya's attention.

She asked Sonali," I had an idea that you are the only child of your parents...??" Sonali clarified," That's true ma'am. But my aunt's son has been brought up by my parents since childhood and works in my father's shop because my aunt and uncle stay in the village and aren't that well to do as they have got a big family to support. My cousin is like my own brother. We have grown up together and we are very close to each other like real siblings."

" That's nice ", said Mrs.Acharya dryly and pretended to be absorbed in her work to ward off Sonali from further chattering. Long forgotten painful memories started flowing in from remote corners of her mind and began drowning her...

The early days of marriage, the dreamy honeymoon days, and the excitement that had rippled through her house when they had announced the news of her first pregnancy, just after the honeymoon.

The young, innocent couple barely had any idea what life had in store for them. Hardly a few months had passed that Mrs.Acharya felt severe pain in the middle of the night and lost her baby with severe bleeding, by the morning.

The doctor said that the fetus must be defective. So the body had rejected it. Her mother, mother in law and aunts tried to console her that every woman would have encountered one or two miscarriages in her life, so not to be worried by it and blessed her to get pregnant as soon as possible again. Still, she had mourned for months for her lost first child.

Then came the babies, not one but many in the form of one pregnancy after another, and each lasted for only a few weeks and got aborted automatically. Mrs. Acharya went on getting weaker in body and depressed due to the crevices that had appeared in her relationship with her husband and in-laws due to her inability to give them the heir of the family, as they liked to put it.

After failed treatment in many renowned hospitals because she had some problems in her system to maintain the pregnancy till full term, finally God did show some mercy for her and she had to be hospitalized for full 9 months in a hospital under the scrutinizing observations of the renowned specialists and her daughter was born by a tough operation, in which her weak ruptured uterus also had to be removed because of profuse bleeding, which could have killed her

( To be continued...) 

P.S - Please read the following part to understand the story completely.