Santosh and his dislocated shoulder

Last month , one Sunday evening in Greater Noida while I was inside a cyber cafe with ash and kabir, I heard from Kabir that Santosh Hegde has dislocated his shoulder somehow. Santosh was in my room when this happened. The other inhabitant of my room Bosco had a plaster cast on his left foot, so we conjectured that Hegde got hurt while trying to help Bosco roam around .

When I returned to my training campus I heard from Bosco that Santosh had fallen from the bed and landed on his right shoulder .His shoulder joints are very sensitive and he has had similar experiences of shoulder dislocation in the past.But on all previous occasions, he had managed to put the bone back in its place himself. He wasn't very lucky this time around and he had to be taken to the hospital. In my room that morning, Santosh who weighs a meager 63 kilos and has threadlike biceps ,had heroically succeeded in doing 15 push ups .That must have been way too much load for his fragile shoulder joints .

So, Dias who was also in my room when the dislocation occurred,took him to the nearby Sharda hospital.After dinner I and Varun M decided to pay Santosh a visit in the hospital. Our training campus is in a god forsaken place with large and empty farmlands surrounding it. There is an abandoned road which leads to the hospital and which is ironically incredibly well lit up with dozens of street lights .The laborers who work there in the neighborhood , the cattle and the canines use the road to answer all calls of nature.

We brave hearts traipsed the deserted two kilometers from the campus to the hospital with a nagging fear of possible raids from highwaymen. The whole journey we were contemplating defense strategies against possible attacks .On the threshold of the hospital we had to jump over a barb - wired fence which might have torn the three-fourths Varun was wearing.

We met Santosh and his slender chest was wrapped tightly in a blanket like brown colored bandage. My batchmate Ganesh was there alongwith Dias and they were exchanging civilities with a mallu male nurse. We expected Santosh to be crying in agony but his disposition was jovial .After being admitted, he was given two bottles of glucose drips and he felt like he is high on five bottles of beer.Dias decided to stay with the patient for the night and after a while I,Varun and Ganesh bid adieu to the two of them and headed back to the campus amidst fears of raiders, barb wires and hostile canines.

Santosh was discharged the next afternoon with a shoulder immobilizer .The immobilizer is a pad which is wrapped around his torso with two bands ,one to to be tied around the wrist and the other around the area between the elbow and the shoulder.he had to wear it for three weeks i.e till the end of the training period.