The stock markets across the globe started crashing. Global economy started down fall. Businesses came to an halt. Most of them defaulted. International flights stopped. No public out on streets. Fears everywhere. Death rate hovering to the peaks. Hospitals were more than the capacity. Doctors were not in a position to operate patients. Even if they do, clueless on the right medication. Job crisis at historical highs. All this is not because of war between nations. No border conflict issues. No race to take over Mars. Just a small virus.
Yes. A virus created such a havoc across the world with no positive news. We were shopping frenzy to Canada when the news hit on the TV's and our flight was cancelled just a week before scheduled. Goverment decided to stop evrything. From railways to brick and motor stores. From Flights to movie theatres. From supermarkets to companies. The country was in Lockdown. Its the same with all global economies around the globe. Just a small virus with origins from China and the fact that it is being hidden from rest of the world created a deep crisis which can never be compensated. The word positive created a real pain in the ass.
Personally I was devastated. All my plans shattered. There's nothing in our hands. Sitting at home. spending hours together sticking to the TV to hear any positive news on the Pandemic. I had some quality time spent with my family after a very long time. Roof gardening, learning some spiritual songs, morning walks, some cricket with my wife, playing cards, relishing some authentic home made dishes. This was my daily activity. During nights, where the city was hell of noise and air pollution, I sensed an absolute paper drop silence. This was the time we decided to plan for kids again as there is high uncertainity on when we are gonna land in Canada and we dont wanna delay further. So my wife fed me with banana and chocolate shake as if I'm gonna enter the boxing ring with all my muscles bumping up. So here we are in the March experimenting with all kind of angles to hit the bulls eys.
The following month, we have consulted our family doctor and they suggested to go for IVF. On entering the IVF hospital, there were quite a few patients in the lobby. We males are looking at each other as if we had some telepathy, oh! even you did not hit the bulls eye. Looks like we were on the same boat with our own rudder in hands. And then I grinned, why the heck should I care. We were headed to the doctor's cabin. She explained the process and the bottom line was "you will not get normal pregnancy". We both looked at each others face as if we made some crime and wanna run out of this semen bank. She then said the cost of the complete package will be explained to you in another room. The lady in another room started explaining the details of how long does this take, how often we need to visit, what is the installment payments and every other details. They just wanna suck us into this trap which we may never come out and loosing our hard earned money on this crapy thing.
We gave it a thought after coming home. Spoke to few of our friends and relatives. We decided not to go for IVF and out of vengeance towards the doctor's words quoted above, my performance levels, day in day out, doubled with taking more of shakes and fruits. During lockdown, helping the poor and the disabled provide food was a relief to my house arrest. It was in May that the government decided to start international flights and we were lucky enough to get 2 tickets to Canada through VandeBharat(Air India rescue flights to bring back stranded Indians) flights for June 9th 2020.
If everything goes as planned we would call overselves GOD. It was only then when my better half visited the doctor and confirmed the news that she is carrying and been 4 weeks then. Everthing has changes in just an hour. Literally, my mind was not in a state to accept I go alone to Canada. Bags were packed. Got all the required documents. Loaded my international forex card on 11th hour. On the last day, we both hugged. kissed. Cried. Next morning, out of no where she touched my feet. Final adieu to my beloved ones.
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