Unconditional love #TellTaleThursday

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Now is the time, just do it.

I tried my best to be a good son but I can’t do it anymore. I want to live for myself now, a stress free life, free of hospital visits, medicines, pain and suffering. A life where I do not receive frantic calls and have to leave everything and rush home like a lunatic.

Mom’s kidney issues have become my worst living nightmare. And thats when Vicky lured me to Bombay- the city of dreams. I have been preparing for this day since 1 month.

The last leg will fit in place tonight as I get my certificates and papers from mom’s wardrobe when she is asleep. I sneak in, and stealthily get the keys from under her pillow. As I rummage through the safe, a cold metal hits my hand, there is a secret drawer within the wardrobe, never knew this existed.

I find a file labelled “Confidential”, I open the pages and my eye sockets pop up in horror.

“Baby Rory who suffers from failure of both kidneys is due for transplant in a week, the donor is his mother Mary Francis.”

I looked back at my mother, sleeping peacefully, unaware that her only son to whom she had donated her kidney was about to desert her cos he was sick of caring for her. I fell on my knees and shed silent tears as mother smiled in her sleep.

Linking up with #TellTaleThursday with Anshu & Priya 

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Published by Akshata Ram

Chartered Accountant, Story Teller, Dreamer, Voracious Reader, Blogger, Mommy to a little munchkin, Shopaholic, Day Dreamer.Passionate about my career in the corporate world and aspire to break the glass ceiling, at the same time nurture my passion for writing. My niche area is short stories, I also write on parenting, sexism, life's experiences, micro blogs and flash fiction. I have won the best Parenting blog post at mycity4kids.com the largest parenting website in India, 4 times and several of my posts have been published in the #MostPopular category on this site garnering millions of views. I also write on Bonobology, Rivo Kids, Women's Web and Youth Ki Awaaz. My blog has been chosen as the Top Indian Blogs for the years 2018-2019,2020 by TopIndianBlogs website and found a place in the prestigious Top 22 Indian Literary Blogs in 2020 @TopIndianBlogs.

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  5. Good that son came to know that his mother is suffering after donating her kidney to her son. This son was leaving her. Even otherwise, I would think it to be very selfish of a son to desert his ailing mother in distress. If not kidney, she has raised him, stood by him in good and bad times.

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