Diwali is a time to celebrate and everyone indulges in their own way to bring in the festival.Its been a long time since I blogged and this blog literally came out of a much needed cerebral outburst.I found my own reason to celebrate.
Lazing in the afternoon ,I looked at the mobile bleep and opened my mail.Out came a medical report of a little baby residing in a woman's womb.A family I barely knew apart from their medical woes.A happy family of three struck by misfortune.Their little girl had fallen prey to a disease which had no cure.A disease which would make her life miserable right from taking her eyesight away to finally make her forget her own parents and live a fretful premature life.A life which only meant having multiple convulsions a day and a behavioural catastrophe which was unfathomable.When she came last to us about a month ago,she was miserable to say the least.
That was when the mother told us she was about 3 months pregnant.Left lurking in dark about the mystery of her daughter and now an added need for protection for her unborn,we embarked on a journey to find that one bit of the humongous human DNA which if found, could ensure protection in her next pregnancy from the same dreadful disease.It was going to be more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.Hurriedly we sent out the girl's samples.Luckily for them,one tiny chink of the DNA was isolated as causative for the little girl's disease.But time was running out.There was a life in the womb to protect.A few weeks before the fetus would turn "viable" as per our government ,we sent out the little's baby's blood sample from the cord inside the uterus.And today as I opened my mail ,I smiled.The fetus was free."It" like her parents and unlike her sibling was unaffected.I got one more reason to celebrate.Happy Diwali everyone and especially to this lucky XYZ ,now sitting safe in the womb.. :)
