worst accident of my life
worst accident of my life [may 1992 ]
---saifee surka
it was 17 th may 1992, sunday evening..
we decided to bring refreshments in the evening from the rifle club.
it is v.near our house. najmee and I went there.
my son, najmee was parking his scooter and I was standing just behind him, facing the road unaware that
a fiat car with full speed was coming towards me....... crash.......a sound so big that members from the club came out running
I was tossed in the air, like a football and was sent crashing down on the opp. footpath .
this all occured within seconds. najmee turned behind to see me crashing down. he ran and
took my head in his lap, and was so nervous to see me bleeding and partly unconcious. he just cried.
some member recognising us, offered to take us to nearby orthopaedic hospital, near firdaus, my home.
The dr. at the hospital accesed my status and instructed us to forget the leg injury,but let my conciousness be proper.
my sons, najmee & abuzer sat besides me whole night , didnt let me wink a little.
next morning I was consulted by senior surgeon, the best orthopaedic in ahmedabad.
Thank Allah. there was no damage done to the brain.
orthopadic surgeon started his treatment.
the picture was like this.
in my right leg, the tibia and fibula bones, were broken into two, totally seperated.
as I was 63 yrs. of age at that time, the calcium would not develop at this old age.
operation was less fruitful because of this, so only plastering was done to think further course of treatment.
he gave me permission to go home after 5 days. regular x-rays were shown to him.
I was put into plaster,first temporary [18/5], simple cloth plaster [24/5] and then plastic plaster [25/8].
in dec 1992, he asked me if a new technological development can be tried on my leg.
it was a Russian method, the ILIZAROV technique
he said that it will be v.costly,
I said to him to go for it, saying that if allah wants to have something done by me, he will help me to survive.
The expense was about one lakh Rs.
I was to be operated. 6 dec 1992 was decided, but that day ayodhya riots started in ahmedabad and
operation was postponed to 27/1/93 when riots were under control.
the technique consisted of having rings to be inserted on leg by puncturing some holes in the flesh.
it was done without anesthia, though v. painful, I managed to bear the pain.
there were 2 parts of the lower leg, the bones were not in line as normally happens
and I had to slowly tighten the bolts every day to bring the bones in line,
which took nearly 12 months to heal completely. the rings were taken out. [22/5/93]
I cannot describe exact procedure, the fotos here are seen of the rings inserted.
nothing inserted inside leg, except these rings outside. no steel bars or anything.
after 6 months I could then walk or able to even drive my car !
yes, it seemed impossible but it happened. call it khuda's inayat.
I used to go for ziyarat at qutbi mazar.
friends were swarming at my home daily. and many pen friends, non muslims also, were praying in their own way.
days passed on... zehra and nafisa used to look after me and I lost the touch of the world activity....
in the sense I was doing business and consultation in textile printing, both suffered. consultation
I had to put aside as the new developments so far I missed and also my limitations of heath now.
business of production of iron nails also was disturbed. I had to close the factory.
meanwhile, one day, ahmedabad aamil saheb, janab yusufbhai saheb phoned me that
Aqa Moula t.u.s. has sent my name as secretary- ahmedabad jamiyat . I asked the amil saheb
how can I work for 39 mozes under jamiyat in this condition? he said moula knows everything,
so don't refuse. thus aqa moula's khidmat was for my naseeb.
Aqa moula visited Ahmedabad in that period. I could not approach him due to crowd.
I just stood on the Roza steps, and 'duur si arz kidi ke moula mane sanbhali lo.'
and similarly went to hasnafeer saheb when Moula went there. similar arz duur si kidi.
bas, mari muskeli kam thava lagi. lagbhag 12 mahine thekanu paru. actually
now there was no steel rods or anything in my leg.
the exact dates of accident as I wrote in my diary:
accident near rifle club.....17/5/92
temp. plastter...................18/8/92
final plaster .....................24/8/92
opration ..........................27/1/93
final release .....................22/5/93
very surprisingly, I dont know, how and was surprised to see my legs working so nicely.
after the demise of my wife in 2006. I went to saudi as my son abuzer was in taif,
v.near to makkah. remained there for 4 months, and had a great naseeb of
four umrahs. no trouble in tawaf, nor any where.
then after I prayed for ziyarat for karbala in shehrullah and was lucky to get it,
my children said, why only karbala, do full muqaddas ziyarat including yemen.
so it was decided and I left alone with a group of faize husaini.and surprisigly,
in yemen I could climb hisne zimarmar, [mount zimarmar, 8000 ft.] alone.
with no trouble and then I went again alone to karbala in whole shehrullah in
2007 and 2008, each about 35 days. that was a great naseeb.
aqa moula na faqt duur si deedar kari arz kidi hati.
saifee surka B.Sc. B.Sc.(Tech.) Textiles
firdaus flats, khanpur,
ahmedabad 380001
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