Father

 After a very long time I was having a long chat with my best friend on phone. "Hey bro, where were you for this many days ?"he asked me . Me, with a little hesitation and full of sadness said , " My father passed away recently , so I am now at my village speaking with you. He was shocked and immediately his next questions arise " What ? I mean how? Please elaborate and tell me exactly  what happened. With a very sad mindset I narrated him :-

On 6th April 2021, which was my birthday , me and my whole family (consisting of my younger brother aged 8 , my mother and my father) were much happy , especially my younger brother as he was getting a chance of eating a cake after so many days of lockdown. My father was not feeling well that day. Not only that day , this symptoms of illness like increase of body temperature, catching cold , coughing , etc. From last three days. On 6th April , he was sleeping all the day as all of the patients do . We all thought it was alright , nothing to worry about. At night we all celebrated my birthday and then had our dinner. After dinner , my father started to feel more worst , my mother immediately took him to our family doctor. It was something 12:00 am still my parents didn't came home. I got a very strong gut feeling that something is wrong , and finally at 1:15 am , my mother came alone at home , giving a news of my father being admitted in the nearest hospital in Covid (because his antigen test was positive) CCU ward . I got a bit surprised because here before my father was never ever hospitalized due to any disease. I could barely remember him being slept for a whole day feeling uncomfortable. He was Hospitalized due to Pneumonia infection along with Covid infection. My mother packed a t-shirt , Bermuda(shorts), his wallet , a small sanitizer bottle , two N-95 masks , etc. and gave it to the hospital staff and told them to give it to him as we were not allowed in the covid ward. He was admitted because he had got his HRCT score 12/25, which was more than normal range . The following day , we all forced to do our covid tests and we did so. We were also instructed by the hospital staff to bring six remdisivir injections. We did so. It was a course of four days in which two injections were to be given on the first day and then from next day a single dose only. Between this days our covid reports came which resulted in being negative for me but positive for my brother and mother. 

Days passed and we repeated his HRTC test to see whether his infection in lungs decreased or vice-versa. When we got the test reports we were shocked to see that his score increased from 12 to 23/25. And soon after 3 days i.e, on 27 April , his oxygen level got depleted to 40 and was shifted to covid ICU. We all got frightened and got in a sudden tension of the patient's health. We also discussed the matter not only with one doctor but took six opinions . All had a same answer" This is a infection from covid second strain , for us it is a novel disease , we have treated him till a part that only his pneumonia infection has gone and now the remaining obstacle part or disease left is the LUNG FIBROSIS. In this case , there is only the task of giving oxygen to the lungs via ventilator and giving supportive treatment is in the doctors hand , other all the task is depended on the patient's body  response. The only thing which both doctors and we all relatives can do is JUST WAIT AND WATCH. But unfortunately, on 26 May 2021, our wait lasted in a bad news of his death at evening 7pm".

He was left stunned with a silent and shock on his face. And gave me condolences, and silently left for his home.