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Trupti started to straight her bed. She was so happy. Her house was small but still she was happy in it. Trupti started counting money she had saved. It was so nice. When Ravi came inside, he hugged her and at same time their daughter Pooja entered. Trupti just pushed him away. Trupti " Pooja baby Papa is home?" Pooja smiled and immediately hugged him. Trupti knew that Pooja need to talk by now. Pooja " Say Papa. Then he will take you in arms." Pooja started crying. Ravi got upset. He took her. Ravi" Don't force her like that." " But she need to talk by now." " Come on. Give her some time." Ravi went in window with Pooja. Trupti was so tense. Pooja was not talking. She tried to convince Ravi about it. But he was not ready to except her fault. Her Mom was already started suggesting that they should take her to Doctor. But Ravi was not ready. She knew that she could consult her pediatrician. But she knew that Ravi was not interested in any thing. She couldn't handle it alone. She went inside room. Ravi managed to put Pooja to sleep. Trupti " Ravi we need a Doctor." " For whom? Are you sick?" " Stop it Ravi. We all know what is happening? We all know that Pooja need a Doctor.." " Shh!! She need to sleep now." " And you need to understand that she needed a Doctor." " Why?" " She just didn't want to repeat it all again but she sensed that she had to. Trupti " Since she is not talking." " Come on. Give her some time. She would start talking slowly step by step. You are getting too much impatient. Why don't you understand? Our daughter need some time to grasp things. Some kids managed to grasp easily while some kids need some time. You need to understand our daughter is little bit slow. But don't feel that she is useless. She would improve slowly. We need to give her some time. She needed time for us and as parents we need to sense," " But what is harm in going to Doctor?" Ravi looked at her with anger. Ravi " Fine. Do as you wish but just remember one thing? Our daughter is just fine. If you want to visit doctor to confirm it then go to Doctor." Then Ravi slept on bed. Trupti slept beside him. She knew that she was upsetting Ravi. But she had to visit Doctor now. She was sure that her daughter need one nice Doctor. She decided that she would call child specialist next day. In morning she started working. She didn't mentioned it to Ravi. But she took Pooja to Doctor. Doctor checked her. Doctor " I feel something is wrong with your daughter's vocal cord." " You mean. She could speak?" " I can't tell that. But she is big now. She was not saying anything. It was strange. " " But she made noises." " I know but she needed to say words too. Don't you feel it?" Trupti looked at Pooja. She was not interested in all. Trupti took every thing. She decided that she must speak with Ravi. She was so scared. She wanted to share this with Ravi. After all it was their sorrow, if something worst turn out to be truth, they need to face it together. She was so confused by every thing. She never thought that it could be that worst. She wanted to cry but she knew that she couldn't before her daughter. She didn't want Pooja to sense it. She just kept pretending. But she slowly called her Mom. She needed some one. Her Mom decided to stay with her for one day. Her house was small but she needed her Mom so her Mom decided that she would adjust with this. They both started deciding regarding Doctor's next appointment. They wanted to search for cure. Her Mom convinced her that every thing was not so hopeless. Even if Pooja couldn't able to talk still she could live normal life, her Mom started to make her ready for worst news since her Mom sensed worst. Pooja was not talking and it was not good at all.
When Pooja was playing in corner, Trupti told her Mom to stay with her. She slowly called Ravi. As soon as she heard voice of Ravi, she started crying. Ravi was scared. Ravi " Calm down. Just tell me what happened? I just don't understand a word." She could hear fear clearly in Ravi's voice. She had to calm down. Trupti slowly controlled her. Trupti " Today I take Pooja to Doctor.." " Now why did you do that? I told you she didn't need Doctor. But you just never listen to me. You just always keep doing what you like. This is so wrong. That Doctor was not right one. My friend was telling he just kept claiming bigger diseases and then took too much money from parents to cure them. Actually kids were just fine." " My god why don't you tell me before? I was so tense." Trupti started smiling happily. Trupti " Now we just need to find a new doctor who help us." " Why did we need Doctor?" "But she is not talking?" " Just give her some time. She will talk." " Come on. She need some time just give it to her. She started to learn things step by step. Some kids are fast and some are slow. Just give her some time." Ravi said it with such confidence that Trupti managed to feel happiness in her soul. She was convinced that her daughter was not sick. She was perfect. She went back to Mom and told every thing to her. But her Mom looked unconvinced. " Trupti look at Pooja. She is growing up. She need to talk now. Don't you want to get admission in school for her?" " I am going tomorrow." " Good then see what that teacher tell to you. I am sure that she will tell same thing. Pooja needed a Doctor." " Stop it Mom. Ravi is her father. Why did he lie?" " I don't know but he is not ready to take her to Doctor. I don't believe that nonsense about Pooja's Doctor. I know him for years. He never had any type of such complaint in past." " Mom people change every day. He might changed. He might had become greedy." " But Pooja is not talking that is one big fact." " No. You are over reacting and it will going to harm me. That is big fact. Stop convincing me that my daughter is sick. She is just fine. She need just more time. Many kids talk little late." " Little late?" Trupti was so angry now. She began to feel her life was fine and her Mom brought this poison in it. She wanted to be happy again. But she felt so happy when she looked at her one room flat. Her house before marriage was big one but it never had happiness inside. Her father always kept bossing and screaming on every one. Ravi never did that. He just wanted one thing that she must not keep calling their daughter sick. Trupti in her heart wanted to believe that she was fine. She began to feel. Her Mom might be jealous about this. Trupti " Mom I am staying happily with my family. I don't want you to disturb my life by calling Pooja sick. It will hurt every one." Her Mom looked ashamed. She immediately apologized. " I accept. I might be getting overprotective. It happens when something happen different with your grand child. Just ignore it." Then her Mom went back to Pooja. She started teaching her once again to speak. Pooja just kept creating noises. But she just didn't making proper words out of it. Trupti sensed doubt once again. But then she remembered assurance of Ravi. She decided that she might try again. She decided that she could easily wait for few days. Trupti was totally relaxed when Ravi came. She just told Ravi not to mention her mistake. He gave her big smile which told her that she was forgiven. She was so happy in that house. She could see every thing while working in kitchen. She felt so happy. Every one was so shocked when she decided to marry Ravi who was poor. But no one could sense his nice nature. Even today he was so positive. She sometimes wished. She was like him. She was still scared somewhere regarding talking of her daughter. But then she smiled again. She must not keep thinking that way. Pooja might call her tomorrow and this nightmare would be over. She just kept praying to god. She just wanted Pooja to speak at least one word. Then she took out their dinner and came out smiling. She didn't want any one to see her tension because she knew one thing that Ravi was right and she was getting tense without reason so she just kept smiling and enjoying every thing. She decided that she must change her attitude. She must stop her negative thinking. But her fear was still alive somewhere in her soul.
Trupti started kept waiting with hope that Pooja might speak. She started to teach her basic things. Pooja kept nodding and pointing. One thing was clear. Pooja understood every thing. Pooja even tried to speak but she couldn't able to do that. Trupti was sensing one thing that something was totally wrong with her daughter. She wanted to believe Ravi but slowly her faith began to reduce. She began to understand Pooja was not taking her time to learn speaking. Pooja just couldn't able to talk. One day without Ravi's consent she took appointment of Doctor. She didn't want to show her Mom that she didn't trust Ravi so she decided to avoid her. She sensed that it was all wrong. She wanted to understand every thing. She needed to understand those things which would have effect on her life. Pooja was not appearing normal. Trupti was so tense about it. She decided that she would manage it alone. She didn't want to wait any more. She knew that she needed to take her for admission in school. That teacher also expected her to talk. Doctor gave her appointment. She was tense. She just didn't able to do her work with relaxation. She just kept looking at watch. Finally time came when she could go to Doctor. She took Pooja in arms and she took Taxi. She told address to Driver but he didn't know it properly so she kept searching. She was tense and it was turning out in worst way. They needed to move in many ways. Finally when she reached to Hospital, she took breathe of relief. She started to going up. She was so tense. Pooja was sitting in her arms. Pooja was smiling. Pooja could sense that some thing was wrong. Pooja was watching her face carefully. Trupti could sense that she wanted to ask some questions. Trupti " Nothing sweet heart. Mom is just fine." Pooja smiled. Then Pooja started looking around. She hugged Trupti. Pooja always hated hospital. When they went inside, there was big line before them. She started to arrange things to entertain Pooja. She took her puzzles and her dolls. But Pooja was not ready to play. She started crying. She wanted to go out of that room. Even Trupti wanted to go away from there. But Trupti knew that it was not going to help. She needed Doctor's examination of Pooja. She waited. She kept going out and then coming inside. Finally her number was called. She went inside. She told every thing to Doctor. Doctor took her daughter to check up. He checked her carefully. He started telling her every thing in medical language. Trupti " Please tell me in simple words. When my daughter would able to talk?" " She couldn't able to talk. Her vocal cord is damaged. It must be defect from birth. It may happen in some cases." " But you must have some treatment." " We might try to operate her. But it will risk for her. Try to understand. We might just manage to damage her vocal cords more. Personally I think let her live this way." " What? Are you telling me that my daughter would never speak?" " Will you relax? You have to accept truth." " It can't be true. I will go to some one else." "Sure. But Doctor will say same thing. Try to understand send her school which teach her how to handle her life. She is Dumb send her to school which teach such children." Trupti started crying. Pooja also started crying. Doctor " You are upsetting her too. Try to understand. Any way what you want to do will depend on your thinking? But in my view send her to proper school. Many dumb people live normal life by learning language of hands." Trupti just stood up. She decided that she needed to talk to Ravi now. She must meet some one whom Ravi could trust. She wanted this to do as soon as possible. She decided that she must talk with Ravi. She decided that she would wait for him in house. She didn't want to discuss this on phone. She wanted to talk face to face with Ravi. She went in home but she needed to share it with some one. She called her Mom. She started telling her every thing. She was even crying. Her Mom told her that she was coming there. Trupti just waited for her Mom impatiently. That day when her Mom came, she cried in her arms as soon as Pooja went to sleep due to exertion of going to Doctor. She knew that she needed to take it out. She had to become strong for Pooja. Since she knew that Pooja needed her lot more in her life to stand on her legs. She knew that Pooja's life was not going so very as she hoped. She needed to stand strongly like pole for Pooja in life. She decided that it was her only chance to cry so she kept crying.
When Ravi came home, Trupti told her Mom to take Pooja out she knew that it was not easy for her to explain this to Ravi. He was not just ready to except it. Ravi sensed something was wrong. Trupti" I have to take Pooja today to Doctor." " Why? She was sick?" " No Ravi!! She is not talking." " Give her sometime..." " Ravi stop living in dream. Doctor told me that she would never able to talk." " You must have taken her to some wrong Doctor!!" " Fine then tell me Doctor of your choice. We will go to that Doctor." Ravi started screaming on her " Shut up. My daughter is not dumb. Do you hear me? In fact I feel there is some problem with your ears. Why don't you hear me. I am telling you again and again. Just understand me. Pooja is just fine." " But Doctor checked her and told me." " Stop.. Stop repeating it. I am trying to tell you again and again that Doctor is lying." " Okay. Let's go to some other Doctor." " Fine. I call my friend. His brother's brother-in-law is Doctor." Trupti nodded happily. Trupti" I just want to hear that I am wrong from some Doctor." Ravi smiled " Don't worry. This Doctor will do that. Who knows Pooja might talk before going to Doctor. Kids do such thing." Trupti started laughing by this hope. " I know I am over reacting." " No..No..It is not your fault it is fault of those money minded Doctors. Every one believe in Doctor." Trupti was so happy. She went out. She ran to her Mom. She told every thing to her. Her Mom " You are saying this Doctor was also lying." " Yes Mom." Her Mom looked confused. " It is too much. I just don't understand why did we are going to wrong Doctor?" " Because I went to next Doctor suggested by first one. It is very simple. I just don't understand I am falling for trap. Why else he didn't find any treatment for Pooja? Doctor normally find them." Her Mom looked convinced as well as confused. Her Mom " So we need another Doctor." Pooja started to show her anger. She didn't want Doctor so she understood her sentence but she couldn't speak so she was just creating noises. Trupti watched her. Once again Trupti felt so confused. Trupti didn't understand what was truth. But then she once again started to convince herself that her daughter was fine. But this time she didn't seem so much convinced. She felt as if she was lying to herself. Trupti " I just want to see that Doctor as soon as possible." Her Mom nodded. Then they kept Pooja with Ravi. They started cooking when suddenly Ravi screamed " Pooja talked." They both came out running. Ravi was dancing with Pooja. Pooja was also laughing. Trupti " What was her first word?" Ravi " Ganesha" Her Mom " What?" Ravi started laughing more." I was joking. What else it should? It was Mom. Every child say that first word." Trupti went to Pooja took her in arms. " Baby talk again. Talk again." Pooja kept making noises. But she couldn't able to speak. Trupti was confused. Her Mom " Sometimes kids just say first word then stop. She could speak again. Just relax." Trupti nodded. Trupti was so happy. But from that day Trupti started to waiting for further progress in Pooja. But she never heard any word from her mouth. But Ravi kept telling her that his daughter talked this word then that word. Soon Trupti began to doubt truth behind it. Finally one day she decided that it was enough. She stood before Ravi and told him to show her when Pooja began to talk. Ravi laughed. Then Ravi started telling her that Pooja was talking words. But Trupti couldn't hear them. She could feel that Ravi was clearly hearing them but Pooja was not speaking. Trupti " Ravi she is not speaking." " Are you mad? Can't you hear her?" Ravi kept telling her those words which Trupti couldn't hear. Trupti sensed for first time. Pooja was not only person who had problem in their house. Ravi had bigger problem than his daughter. Trupti ran in kitchen and started crying slowly. She knew that now she had to handle it all alone. Her husband needed her help as much as her daughter. It was worst. But she knew that she had to go through it.
Next day as soon as Ravi went in office, Trupti immediately called her Mom. Trupti " Mom something was wrong with Ravi." " What? Is he sick? What happened?" " Mom he is hearing Pooja's voices, when she is not talking at all. He kept telling me that she was saying this and that. But Pooja didn't talk." Her Mom didn't say anything for sometime. Her Mom " I think we might take Pooja to some Doctor?" " Ohh my god. So you feel I am imagining things." " No..No..we just need to confirm before we start to tell Ravi that something was wrong with him." Trupti sensed that she was screaming on Mom without need. Her Mom was right. They needed to handle Pooja's issue first. Then they consulted another Doctor and decided to take Pooja in Hospital. It was worst day for Trupti. But she decided that she must did it. She even called Ravi. Trupti " I am taking Pooja to hospital."" Why? She talked today.." " Stop it. She never talked and she couldn't talk. If you don't believe me, come to hospital and ask Doctor." Then she just disconnected call. Then she messaged him the address. She went in room. She took Pooja in arms. Then she immediately called her Mom. They took auto and went to hospital. They sat there. Luckily there was not big line. After two..three patients their number came. They went inside. Doctor started checking her when Ravi rushed in to room. Ravi " Why did you bring her here? Doctor Pooja can talk?" Doctor looked at him with confused expression. " If this girl is Pooja, then let me tell you one thing. She can never able to talk since her vocal cords are damaged." " And you see it just by eyes." " No. I can say it by experience. But I will also show you reports. If you are interested I can prove it to you. We need to do some tests on her." " But can't you hear her voice? She is talking." Doctor looked at Ravi with shock. Doctor suggested Ravi to take seat. Doctor " For how long you can able to hear her voice?" Ravi " For a week." Trupti started crying. Doctor " I suggest you to meet this psychiatrist. He is just on fifth floor." " But we all hear her voice." Ravi started looking around for support. Ravi was so confused when no one nodded. Ravi " No one can hear it?" Trupti " No. We can't since she is not talking. You are imagining it." Ravi was so shocked. He just sat in chair. Then he suddenly screamed when Pooja just opened her mouth and pointed to her. He started claiming that Pooja was calling him. She was so irritated. Trupti just screamed on him" Stop it. Accept it that your daughter can't talk." Trupti started screaming so loudly that Pooja started crying. Ravi also got angry. He started screaming " She talk..do you hear me? My daughter can talk." He ran towards Pooja start shaking her. " Honey talk." It was worst. Doctor took hold of Pooja and screamed on Ravi "Stop it. You are hurting her." Ravi suddenly sat on chair and started crying. Ravi " I can hear her voice." Doctor " Since you are not sound in mind. You are too much disturbed." " But such thing never happen to me. I have seen so many ups and downs in life." " Sometimes it happen even to strong man. Specially in case of daughter. Just visit to this Doctor." Trupti " But what happen to him?" " I can tell surely. But he is hallucinating due to trauma regarding his daughter. Just got to other floor. I am sure. He will give you an appointment. If I request him." Ravi nodded. Ravi " I will go there. Trupti you must stay with Pooja." Trupti was nervous but she nodded. But Doctor said " Her tests are over. You can take her." Then they went there. They once more sat in line. Finally they went inside. Ravi told every thing. Psychiatrist " Post traumatic symptoms this is happening due to stress of your daughter's health. " Then Psychiatrist started convincing him that he had to become strong." Trupti was hearing it all. She sensed that it was helping her as much as it was helping Ravi. She sensed one thing. She had to become strong since she had to accept Pooja couldn't talk but still Pooja could enjoy nice life. Psychiatrist was creating that dream before them with suggestions. He was telling good life was still possible for them. Trupti smiled. But she saw that Ravi was still not accepting it. Then she thought Psychiatrist would do that job. They were lucky that they had at least money for all this. She thanked god for giving them at least resource for getting over this trouble since psychiatrist told them that they need to appreciate what they got instead of complaining about what they didn't manage to get.
The End
Trupti started to straight her bed. She was so happy. Her house was small but still she was happy in it. Trupti started counting money she had saved. It was so nice. When Ravi came inside, he hugged her and at same time their daughter Pooja entered. Trupti just pushed him away. Trupti " Pooja baby Papa is home?" Pooja smiled and immediately hugged him. Trupti knew that Pooja need to talk by now. Pooja " Say Papa. Then he will take you in arms." Pooja started crying. Ravi got upset. He took her. Ravi" Don't force her like that." " But she need to talk by now." " Come on. Give her some time." Ravi went in window with Pooja. Trupti was so tense. Pooja was not talking. She tried to convince Ravi about it. But he was not ready to except her fault. Her Mom was already started suggesting that they should take her to Doctor. But Ravi was not ready. She knew that she could consult her pediatrician. But she knew that Ravi was not interested in any thing. She couldn't handle it alone. She went inside room. Ravi managed to put Pooja to sleep. Trupti " Ravi we need a Doctor." " For whom? Are you sick?" " Stop it Ravi. We all know what is happening? We all know that Pooja need a Doctor.." " Shh!! She need to sleep now." " And you need to understand that she needed a Doctor." " Why?" " She just didn't want to repeat it all again but she sensed that she had to. Trupti " Since she is not talking." " Come on. Give her some time. She would start talking slowly step by step. You are getting too much impatient. Why don't you understand? Our daughter need some time to grasp things. Some kids managed to grasp easily while some kids need some time. You need to understand our daughter is little bit slow. But don't feel that she is useless. She would improve slowly. We need to give her some time. She needed time for us and as parents we need to sense," " But what is harm in going to Doctor?" Ravi looked at her with anger. Ravi " Fine. Do as you wish but just remember one thing? Our daughter is just fine. If you want to visit doctor to confirm it then go to Doctor." Then Ravi slept on bed. Trupti slept beside him. She knew that she was upsetting Ravi. But she had to visit Doctor now. She was sure that her daughter need one nice Doctor. She decided that she would call child specialist next day. In morning she started working. She didn't mentioned it to Ravi. But she took Pooja to Doctor. Doctor checked her. Doctor " I feel something is wrong with your daughter's vocal cord." " You mean. She could speak?" " I can't tell that. But she is big now. She was not saying anything. It was strange. " " But she made noises." " I know but she needed to say words too. Don't you feel it?" Trupti looked at Pooja. She was not interested in all. Trupti took every thing. She decided that she must speak with Ravi. She was so scared. She wanted to share this with Ravi. After all it was their sorrow, if something worst turn out to be truth, they need to face it together. She was so confused by every thing. She never thought that it could be that worst. She wanted to cry but she knew that she couldn't before her daughter. She didn't want Pooja to sense it. She just kept pretending. But she slowly called her Mom. She needed some one. Her Mom decided to stay with her for one day. Her house was small but she needed her Mom so her Mom decided that she would adjust with this. They both started deciding regarding Doctor's next appointment. They wanted to search for cure. Her Mom convinced her that every thing was not so hopeless. Even if Pooja couldn't able to talk still she could live normal life, her Mom started to make her ready for worst news since her Mom sensed worst. Pooja was not talking and it was not good at all.
When Pooja was playing in corner, Trupti told her Mom to stay with her. She slowly called Ravi. As soon as she heard voice of Ravi, she started crying. Ravi was scared. Ravi " Calm down. Just tell me what happened? I just don't understand a word." She could hear fear clearly in Ravi's voice. She had to calm down. Trupti slowly controlled her. Trupti " Today I take Pooja to Doctor.." " Now why did you do that? I told you she didn't need Doctor. But you just never listen to me. You just always keep doing what you like. This is so wrong. That Doctor was not right one. My friend was telling he just kept claiming bigger diseases and then took too much money from parents to cure them. Actually kids were just fine." " My god why don't you tell me before? I was so tense." Trupti started smiling happily. Trupti " Now we just need to find a new doctor who help us." " Why did we need Doctor?" "But she is not talking?" " Just give her some time. She will talk." " Come on. She need some time just give it to her. She started to learn things step by step. Some kids are fast and some are slow. Just give her some time." Ravi said it with such confidence that Trupti managed to feel happiness in her soul. She was convinced that her daughter was not sick. She was perfect. She went back to Mom and told every thing to her. But her Mom looked unconvinced. " Trupti look at Pooja. She is growing up. She need to talk now. Don't you want to get admission in school for her?" " I am going tomorrow." " Good then see what that teacher tell to you. I am sure that she will tell same thing. Pooja needed a Doctor." " Stop it Mom. Ravi is her father. Why did he lie?" " I don't know but he is not ready to take her to Doctor. I don't believe that nonsense about Pooja's Doctor. I know him for years. He never had any type of such complaint in past." " Mom people change every day. He might changed. He might had become greedy." " But Pooja is not talking that is one big fact." " No. You are over reacting and it will going to harm me. That is big fact. Stop convincing me that my daughter is sick. She is just fine. She need just more time. Many kids talk little late." " Little late?" Trupti was so angry now. She began to feel her life was fine and her Mom brought this poison in it. She wanted to be happy again. But she felt so happy when she looked at her one room flat. Her house before marriage was big one but it never had happiness inside. Her father always kept bossing and screaming on every one. Ravi never did that. He just wanted one thing that she must not keep calling their daughter sick. Trupti in her heart wanted to believe that she was fine. She began to feel. Her Mom might be jealous about this. Trupti " Mom I am staying happily with my family. I don't want you to disturb my life by calling Pooja sick. It will hurt every one." Her Mom looked ashamed. She immediately apologized. " I accept. I might be getting overprotective. It happens when something happen different with your grand child. Just ignore it." Then her Mom went back to Pooja. She started teaching her once again to speak. Pooja just kept creating noises. But she just didn't making proper words out of it. Trupti sensed doubt once again. But then she remembered assurance of Ravi. She decided that she might try again. She decided that she could easily wait for few days. Trupti was totally relaxed when Ravi came. She just told Ravi not to mention her mistake. He gave her big smile which told her that she was forgiven. She was so happy in that house. She could see every thing while working in kitchen. She felt so happy. Every one was so shocked when she decided to marry Ravi who was poor. But no one could sense his nice nature. Even today he was so positive. She sometimes wished. She was like him. She was still scared somewhere regarding talking of her daughter. But then she smiled again. She must not keep thinking that way. Pooja might call her tomorrow and this nightmare would be over. She just kept praying to god. She just wanted Pooja to speak at least one word. Then she took out their dinner and came out smiling. She didn't want any one to see her tension because she knew one thing that Ravi was right and she was getting tense without reason so she just kept smiling and enjoying every thing. She decided that she must change her attitude. She must stop her negative thinking. But her fear was still alive somewhere in her soul.
Trupti started kept waiting with hope that Pooja might speak. She started to teach her basic things. Pooja kept nodding and pointing. One thing was clear. Pooja understood every thing. Pooja even tried to speak but she couldn't able to do that. Trupti was sensing one thing that something was totally wrong with her daughter. She wanted to believe Ravi but slowly her faith began to reduce. She began to understand Pooja was not taking her time to learn speaking. Pooja just couldn't able to talk. One day without Ravi's consent she took appointment of Doctor. She didn't want to show her Mom that she didn't trust Ravi so she decided to avoid her. She sensed that it was all wrong. She wanted to understand every thing. She needed to understand those things which would have effect on her life. Pooja was not appearing normal. Trupti was so tense about it. She decided that she would manage it alone. She didn't want to wait any more. She knew that she needed to take her for admission in school. That teacher also expected her to talk. Doctor gave her appointment. She was tense. She just didn't able to do her work with relaxation. She just kept looking at watch. Finally time came when she could go to Doctor. She took Pooja in arms and she took Taxi. She told address to Driver but he didn't know it properly so she kept searching. She was tense and it was turning out in worst way. They needed to move in many ways. Finally when she reached to Hospital, she took breathe of relief. She started to going up. She was so tense. Pooja was sitting in her arms. Pooja was smiling. Pooja could sense that some thing was wrong. Pooja was watching her face carefully. Trupti could sense that she wanted to ask some questions. Trupti " Nothing sweet heart. Mom is just fine." Pooja smiled. Then Pooja started looking around. She hugged Trupti. Pooja always hated hospital. When they went inside, there was big line before them. She started to arrange things to entertain Pooja. She took her puzzles and her dolls. But Pooja was not ready to play. She started crying. She wanted to go out of that room. Even Trupti wanted to go away from there. But Trupti knew that it was not going to help. She needed Doctor's examination of Pooja. She waited. She kept going out and then coming inside. Finally her number was called. She went inside. She told every thing to Doctor. Doctor took her daughter to check up. He checked her carefully. He started telling her every thing in medical language. Trupti " Please tell me in simple words. When my daughter would able to talk?" " She couldn't able to talk. Her vocal cord is damaged. It must be defect from birth. It may happen in some cases." " But you must have some treatment." " We might try to operate her. But it will risk for her. Try to understand. We might just manage to damage her vocal cords more. Personally I think let her live this way." " What? Are you telling me that my daughter would never speak?" " Will you relax? You have to accept truth." " It can't be true. I will go to some one else." "Sure. But Doctor will say same thing. Try to understand send her school which teach her how to handle her life. She is Dumb send her to school which teach such children." Trupti started crying. Pooja also started crying. Doctor " You are upsetting her too. Try to understand. Any way what you want to do will depend on your thinking? But in my view send her to proper school. Many dumb people live normal life by learning language of hands." Trupti just stood up. She decided that she needed to talk to Ravi now. She must meet some one whom Ravi could trust. She wanted this to do as soon as possible. She decided that she must talk with Ravi. She decided that she would wait for him in house. She didn't want to discuss this on phone. She wanted to talk face to face with Ravi. She went in home but she needed to share it with some one. She called her Mom. She started telling her every thing. She was even crying. Her Mom told her that she was coming there. Trupti just waited for her Mom impatiently. That day when her Mom came, she cried in her arms as soon as Pooja went to sleep due to exertion of going to Doctor. She knew that she needed to take it out. She had to become strong for Pooja. Since she knew that Pooja needed her lot more in her life to stand on her legs. She knew that Pooja's life was not going so very as she hoped. She needed to stand strongly like pole for Pooja in life. She decided that it was her only chance to cry so she kept crying.
When Ravi came home, Trupti told her Mom to take Pooja out she knew that it was not easy for her to explain this to Ravi. He was not just ready to except it. Ravi sensed something was wrong. Trupti" I have to take Pooja today to Doctor." " Why? She was sick?" " No Ravi!! She is not talking." " Give her sometime..." " Ravi stop living in dream. Doctor told me that she would never able to talk." " You must have taken her to some wrong Doctor!!" " Fine then tell me Doctor of your choice. We will go to that Doctor." Ravi started screaming on her " Shut up. My daughter is not dumb. Do you hear me? In fact I feel there is some problem with your ears. Why don't you hear me. I am telling you again and again. Just understand me. Pooja is just fine." " But Doctor checked her and told me." " Stop.. Stop repeating it. I am trying to tell you again and again that Doctor is lying." " Okay. Let's go to some other Doctor." " Fine. I call my friend. His brother's brother-in-law is Doctor." Trupti nodded happily. Trupti" I just want to hear that I am wrong from some Doctor." Ravi smiled " Don't worry. This Doctor will do that. Who knows Pooja might talk before going to Doctor. Kids do such thing." Trupti started laughing by this hope. " I know I am over reacting." " No..No..It is not your fault it is fault of those money minded Doctors. Every one believe in Doctor." Trupti was so happy. She went out. She ran to her Mom. She told every thing to her. Her Mom " You are saying this Doctor was also lying." " Yes Mom." Her Mom looked confused. " It is too much. I just don't understand why did we are going to wrong Doctor?" " Because I went to next Doctor suggested by first one. It is very simple. I just don't understand I am falling for trap. Why else he didn't find any treatment for Pooja? Doctor normally find them." Her Mom looked convinced as well as confused. Her Mom " So we need another Doctor." Pooja started to show her anger. She didn't want Doctor so she understood her sentence but she couldn't speak so she was just creating noises. Trupti watched her. Once again Trupti felt so confused. Trupti didn't understand what was truth. But then she once again started to convince herself that her daughter was fine. But this time she didn't seem so much convinced. She felt as if she was lying to herself. Trupti " I just want to see that Doctor as soon as possible." Her Mom nodded. Then they kept Pooja with Ravi. They started cooking when suddenly Ravi screamed " Pooja talked." They both came out running. Ravi was dancing with Pooja. Pooja was also laughing. Trupti " What was her first word?" Ravi " Ganesha" Her Mom " What?" Ravi started laughing more." I was joking. What else it should? It was Mom. Every child say that first word." Trupti went to Pooja took her in arms. " Baby talk again. Talk again." Pooja kept making noises. But she couldn't able to speak. Trupti was confused. Her Mom " Sometimes kids just say first word then stop. She could speak again. Just relax." Trupti nodded. Trupti was so happy. But from that day Trupti started to waiting for further progress in Pooja. But she never heard any word from her mouth. But Ravi kept telling her that his daughter talked this word then that word. Soon Trupti began to doubt truth behind it. Finally one day she decided that it was enough. She stood before Ravi and told him to show her when Pooja began to talk. Ravi laughed. Then Ravi started telling her that Pooja was talking words. But Trupti couldn't hear them. She could feel that Ravi was clearly hearing them but Pooja was not speaking. Trupti " Ravi she is not speaking." " Are you mad? Can't you hear her?" Ravi kept telling her those words which Trupti couldn't hear. Trupti sensed for first time. Pooja was not only person who had problem in their house. Ravi had bigger problem than his daughter. Trupti ran in kitchen and started crying slowly. She knew that now she had to handle it all alone. Her husband needed her help as much as her daughter. It was worst. But she knew that she had to go through it.
Next day as soon as Ravi went in office, Trupti immediately called her Mom. Trupti " Mom something was wrong with Ravi." " What? Is he sick? What happened?" " Mom he is hearing Pooja's voices, when she is not talking at all. He kept telling me that she was saying this and that. But Pooja didn't talk." Her Mom didn't say anything for sometime. Her Mom " I think we might take Pooja to some Doctor?" " Ohh my god. So you feel I am imagining things." " No..No..we just need to confirm before we start to tell Ravi that something was wrong with him." Trupti sensed that she was screaming on Mom without need. Her Mom was right. They needed to handle Pooja's issue first. Then they consulted another Doctor and decided to take Pooja in Hospital. It was worst day for Trupti. But she decided that she must did it. She even called Ravi. Trupti " I am taking Pooja to hospital."" Why? She talked today.." " Stop it. She never talked and she couldn't talk. If you don't believe me, come to hospital and ask Doctor." Then she just disconnected call. Then she messaged him the address. She went in room. She took Pooja in arms. Then she immediately called her Mom. They took auto and went to hospital. They sat there. Luckily there was not big line. After two..three patients their number came. They went inside. Doctor started checking her when Ravi rushed in to room. Ravi " Why did you bring her here? Doctor Pooja can talk?" Doctor looked at him with confused expression. " If this girl is Pooja, then let me tell you one thing. She can never able to talk since her vocal cords are damaged." " And you see it just by eyes." " No. I can say it by experience. But I will also show you reports. If you are interested I can prove it to you. We need to do some tests on her." " But can't you hear her voice? She is talking." Doctor looked at Ravi with shock. Doctor suggested Ravi to take seat. Doctor " For how long you can able to hear her voice?" Ravi " For a week." Trupti started crying. Doctor " I suggest you to meet this psychiatrist. He is just on fifth floor." " But we all hear her voice." Ravi started looking around for support. Ravi was so confused when no one nodded. Ravi " No one can hear it?" Trupti " No. We can't since she is not talking. You are imagining it." Ravi was so shocked. He just sat in chair. Then he suddenly screamed when Pooja just opened her mouth and pointed to her. He started claiming that Pooja was calling him. She was so irritated. Trupti just screamed on him" Stop it. Accept it that your daughter can't talk." Trupti started screaming so loudly that Pooja started crying. Ravi also got angry. He started screaming " She talk..do you hear me? My daughter can talk." He ran towards Pooja start shaking her. " Honey talk." It was worst. Doctor took hold of Pooja and screamed on Ravi "Stop it. You are hurting her." Ravi suddenly sat on chair and started crying. Ravi " I can hear her voice." Doctor " Since you are not sound in mind. You are too much disturbed." " But such thing never happen to me. I have seen so many ups and downs in life." " Sometimes it happen even to strong man. Specially in case of daughter. Just visit to this Doctor." Trupti " But what happen to him?" " I can tell surely. But he is hallucinating due to trauma regarding his daughter. Just got to other floor. I am sure. He will give you an appointment. If I request him." Ravi nodded. Ravi " I will go there. Trupti you must stay with Pooja." Trupti was nervous but she nodded. But Doctor said " Her tests are over. You can take her." Then they went there. They once more sat in line. Finally they went inside. Ravi told every thing. Psychiatrist " Post traumatic symptoms this is happening due to stress of your daughter's health. " Then Psychiatrist started convincing him that he had to become strong." Trupti was hearing it all. She sensed that it was helping her as much as it was helping Ravi. She sensed one thing. She had to become strong since she had to accept Pooja couldn't talk but still Pooja could enjoy nice life. Psychiatrist was creating that dream before them with suggestions. He was telling good life was still possible for them. Trupti smiled. But she saw that Ravi was still not accepting it. Then she thought Psychiatrist would do that job. They were lucky that they had at least money for all this. She thanked god for giving them at least resource for getting over this trouble since psychiatrist told them that they need to appreciate what they got instead of complaining about what they didn't manage to get.
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