Light of Divinity

Light of Divinity one stage her diastolic blood pressure had even shot up to 132 despite repeated medication and she was delirious, leading the doctors to consider the option of performing emergency C-section operation – however, on praying to Guruji, her condition settled down and the baby was delivered normally.

Our joy on the birth of a healthy child was soon replaced by deep concern as initial blood tests on the child revealed some infection and the child was not passing urine in the first few days after he was born.

The doctors were not very sure about the source or the nature of the infection, as part of the investigation they attempted lumber puncture a few times on the 2-day old child, but failed to get a sample of the spinal fluid. As a result they put him on a range of antibiotics which they expected would deal with the infection irrespective of its nature.

However, the doctors were more worried about the baby not passing any urine in about the first 4 days after birth despite being fed a lot more than the usual amount (at times using a drip) to overcome any possible dehydration. Some of them seemed to start suspecting his kidneys as the kidney-function test results were way off normal limits, while the others advocated ruling out dehydration as the underlying cause (by pushing more fluids down the baby) before writing him up for a kidney scan.

To add to problems my wife developed a severe urine infection with her temperature shooting up to 105 degrees. Both the mother and the baby being poorly, they were moved to a critical care unit.

I was absolutely alone in an alien land with no family or relatives, even my colleagues had left as the project had ended. Guruji’s photographs (the latter was given to us by Guruji himself and we touched it to the baby’s body and placed it on his cot time and again) and his blessings were all that we had to look up to under such adverse circumstances, and we prayed to him more intensely than ever.

Very soon things fell into place - the baby passed his long-awaited first urine and we never heard about his infection again (the doctors now felt that probably the infection that showed up in the baby’s blood stream was actually his mother’s). My wife recovered after being treated with strong antibiotics and both were released nearly after a couple of weeks after childbirth. : 341 :