Bilirubin 8.0 mg/dl

During our training period all kinds of leave were un-officially banned. The only leave available was medical leave. To get medical leave, one had to fall sick. Bed rest was to be recommended by Dr. Sikdar ,Supdt. Of Central Police Hospital. The lab tests were to be done at Luit Diagnostic Center. Then only the training authority grants leave to the trainees.
                                Dr Sikdar was a man of low morals. He could easilly be bribed. Our training authority did not like Dr Sikdar at all but looking at his designation, had to accept his recommendations of bed rests to trainees . On the other hand Luit Diagnostic Center was genuine. Its reports were perfect. One could never bribe its staff for a false report. So it was very difficult to get bed rest or leave on those days.
                                Priyabrata was very upset . He wanted a break from the training. He said "I will do anything to go home". He was sipping beer with me at Abhijit's bar and restaurant that evening. Tomorrow I will go to Dr Sikdar. He said in a challenging tone. Even going to see Dr Sikdar was getting tough as authority was not sending everyone to him as most returned with a bed rest. We soon left the bar and hurried to our training school as night counting was at 7.30 PM. He reached late as he dropped by the wine shop to get a half bottle.
                               The next morning Priyabrata complained of severe stomach ache. He did not attend the morning P.T and Parade programs. He was crying in his bed . He was sent to Central Police Hospital where Dr Sikdar was there. He was recommended some blood tests by the doctor. He returned with some medicines. He informed our training bosses that the blood reports will come tomorrow. So he is going to Police Hospital tomorrow to show the reports . Along with medicines he bought one half bottle of Old Monk which he consumed alone.
                               The next day he returned with 15 days home rest from Dr Sikdar. He was found to be suffering from jaundice. The blood reports were from Luit Diagnostic Center. His bilirubin count was more than 8 mg/dl.
                              How was it possible? We were left with a puzzle to solve. He was first to be diagonised with jaundice in our barrack. And we knew that he was lying and his reports were also false.
                                 We got the answers when he returned.
When he went to Police Hospital, he met one indoor patient who was sufferring from heavy jaundice. He persuaded the jaundice patient to go to Luit Diagnostic center and give a blood test in his place. He paid the patient 1000 bucks for the test. The patient registered his name as Priyabrata Nath. So the reports were in Priyabrata's name. In this way he succeeded in getting the home rest for 15 days.         :-)

Bhoot .....A true story

                   

                                                           In a cold winter night at around 2.00 am , my sound sleep was again disturbed by loud noises. I got up and saw Cadet S.I Lalit saikia entering quickly from the corridor leading the washroom and toilet.. Bhoot...bhoot (ghost)..  .. He hurriedly got into his bed.. From there he said that he actually went to the loo. But as soon as he sat down,, there were immense vibrations and strange sounds from underneath the commode.  He simply ran away from there. As i said earlier the conditions of the toilets were pathetic. There were no lights not even the sockets. Only moonlight is available. So the question of locking the door from inside does not arise at night.. Those who woke up that night listened to lalit and dismissed it by saying that it may be the effect of excess alcohol that lalit consumes every evening. We soon went to sleep.. At around 0245 am i was again woken up by sabir.. Sabir heard some strange sound from behind the toilets . 

                               I thought it might be the sound of big fishes  fighting for food . There is a big fishery behind the toilets. Soon the dark night was over. By morning as we were having tea , we heard someone shouting. It was the voice of Havildar Bora whom we call chulai. He was very fond of chulai, a locally made liquor which is very cheap and is readily available.. He was searching for his jersey cow which has not returned home since last evening. We told him we have not seen Buli , his cow. He was still searching. He searched behind the barracks but there was no sign of Buli. Havildar Bora sat on a trunk tired of searching from last night. He was wondering where might his cow have gone..
                                                                   He suddenly stood up with a brightness in his face. He did not check behind the toilets. His cow often grazed on the bank of the fishery behind the toilets. There is a big septic tank at the back of the toilets. The pipes connected to the septic tank were broken at different places . The by products from the toilets freely flowed to the fishery And that was the secret of the unusually big sizes of the fishes. Havildar Bora reached the back of the toilet. We followed him. The cover of the safety tank was broken . As we stood on the tank we got all the answers . Lalit and Sabir were right. The ghost was there in the tank itself. Actually the cow had fallen into the tank last night. The Cow was barely breathing. Only the nose with yellow patches was visible.. It took the whole day in recovering the cow from the tank. It was immediately taken to veterinary hospital for treatment. If you enjoyed reading this post.... please consider leaving a comment.. Thanks