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| A kidney was not worth her son's love | | Mothers' day special | |
Abodh Sharma
Jammu, May 13: For more than 35 years, Lajjya, now sixty something, has worked as domestic help in the adjoining mohallas to earn two square meals. Toothless and fragile, she survives on one kidney, after she donated the other one to his son a couple of years ago. But, her eldest son, the recipient of her vital organ, who now works in P&T department, has no 'room' for her in his three room house in Sarwal.
Things were better when she got married to Thoru, a class IV employee in post and telegraph department. Three sons and several years later, a severe attack of Hemiplegia confined Thoru to bed for rest of his life. He eventually developed tuberculosis and life was never the same for Lajjya. Upbringing of her children and treatment of her husband forced her to go out for work.
After Thoru's death, she worked with a hope of better days as her sons were growing up. Fifteen years later, Lajjya's sons have grown up, but she is still mopping and brooming floors- this time not for her sons or an ailing husband, but to keep herself alive.
Strangely, miseries and misfortunes have failed to blow off that spirit of life in Lajjya. She would still take a pause in front of the mirror while mopping floors. "He looked after me well. We would have our lunch on the banks of canal every Sunday when he was alive" she once said,sharing her reminiscences with her land lady.
After Thoru's death, Lajjya started afresh. Her eyes glittered with pride and hope, when her sons came calling while Lajjya was at work at her lanlord's house. Just after she married her eldest son off, he was discovered to be chronically diabetic. "Doctors in Ludhiana asked for a kidney transplant and I offered him mine" narrated Lajjya. Her son who was now adjusted at his father's place received the cost oftreatment from his department, but Lajjya had no one to count on to. Three years later, her son drove her out of family's three -room house, arguing that his daughter had grown up and she needed a separate room.
Lajjya, still intimately attached to her family, now lives in a small dingy room that has a tin shed for roof. "I want them to be happy and satisfied in whatever they do" she says taking a bite at the matthi dipped in tea. |
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