Naila

sorry to hear about ur friend...may she rest in peace!
fiz

#25:
Thank you for clarifying your position and removing any doubts!

zahraj...
... one would only expect khokhlay bejaan alfaz from a khokhli shakhsiyat...;)

Chowk Admin:

Can you please put a ban on forced poetry on Chowk?
An excellent example will be post # 21.
Oh, I forgot the Chowk Moral Police will be after me now with their lengthy and unending sermons on freedom of speech, live and let live and other gibberish. Whatever! I do not think Raka posh`s memoir deserved such a ``bae`tuka`` response.

My five cents!

The memory of the dead is the only memory from which we should refuse to be divorced.Everyother wound we should seek to heal, everyother affliction to forget .But this wound we consider it a duty to keep open ; affliction we shall cherish and brood in silence.

they say time is a great healer...but some incidents in life are for a life time....after reading your story i went numb...i guess i still am...a three yr old face keeps popping up....May Allah have mercy on all of us...and may her soul rest in peace...amen

alfaaz...
khokhlay alfaaz
per zaroori haiN
aankh ke aaNsoo
dard e dil ya phir
dikhaway ke liye
ashk e num ko
khalish e dil ko
baaNtnay ke liye
bhool janay ke liye
alfaaz haaN yehi bejaan
khokhlay alfaaz
zaroori hain...

~khamkhwa

Sorry about your loss. May God grant her peace in afterlife.

# thanks for sharing this with us ... it was heart felt and make one realize the importance of life and how short it is ...

Rakapo$h
May God bless her soul and give patience to her family and friends.
My friend`s sister-in-law died last year in lahore in a very similar way. She left two child behind. She was doing house job at Ganga Ram.
For these occasions, words are hard to find.

Regards.

Dear Friends,
I apologize if I made you sad even for few minutes, but I found out, that it does make a difference by sharing sorrow, even on the internet, with people you have never met before. May you never find out.

Catch out,
Liver can be affected in numerous ways, most common is Hepatitis A , B and C viruses . Since liver is a vital organ for survival , its disease results in various stages of deterioration.
Fulminant hapatic failure can result either from virus,drugs ( tylenol/Paracetamol overuse ) or any unkonwn cause.
Liver gets rid of toxic substances ( Ammonia /bilirubin ) from the body and when it cant do that , they get accumalted and can cause brain damage. It also helps to regulate the blood and liver disease leads to too thin a blood and bleeding.

My favorite organs are kidneys, if they fail...there is dialysis or you can get transplant from any loved one. You wont really die....
But with liver , heart, brain, lungs...., when they go..you go...

Rakaposh:
A very moving story! Packed with emotions, sweet memories and sad sad ending. We grieve with you, Raka.

A very sad and moving piece of writing.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Ras

You make us laugh on Unplugged and you brought tears to my eyes on this eulogy. You have very powerful expression of the real life events. I am also very happy to know you as a very sincere and caring friend of good times and bad times.
You being a doctor yourself, please tell us more about fulminant hepatic failure and brain damage due to delayed liver transplant. How does it affect brain?

It is a heartbreaking tragedy, written straight from the heart. I read this last evening, and it kept me awake till late, bringing back the memories of similar tragedies – wonderful friends, brilliant full of life young people, lost to the bitter reality of death. The heaviness never leaves one’s heart.

Rakapo$h,

There is not much one can say at a time such as this, but I would like you to know that you have my sincere sympathy in your bereavement. Please accept my heart felt condolence and count me among those who share your sorrow at this sad time. I pray to Almighty Allah to rest the departed soul in peace and give strength to the grieved family and friends to bear this irreparable loss. Amen

Rakapo$h,

There is not much one can say at a time such as this, but I would like you to know that you have my sincere sympathy in your bereavement. Please accept my heart felt condolence and count me among those who share your sorrow at this sad time. I pray to Almighty Allah to rest the departed soul in peace and give strength to the grieved family and friends to bear this irreparable loss. Amen

Rakapo$h,

Nothing can be said. Or done. Hope you found your closure with this writing.

Im too sad to comment...it was not her own death that makes it piognant, its the story of her life..her dead parents, her loneliness may be....the untold story of her grief, the undertone of this background, NY, new mexico, houston...so many new places but,.. Ammee and Abbu!...sigh!.....why do people have to die?

R,
Don`t know what to say except that
the greatest loss has been her son`s.

Very touching.

May God bless her soul.

Haunting. May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`aala grant her peace.

raka:

....straight from the heart...poignant...cannot say more...

lve & rah

t

She must have been something, if she was your friend. (Having seen your wonderful sense of humor on unplugged). May her soul rest in peace.

Any death is a sad occassion, and the death of a young person with his or life ahead is particularly so. I am reminded of a young doctor from Pakistan who died of cancer in St. Louis. He had just completed his residency and had his whole life ahead of him. The last I talked to him over the phone, he was in a hospital in St. Louis after being diagnosed with cancer, and he told me that the hospital staff had just transferred him to a room a couple of stories above his previous room. He then jokingly added ``I guess they have moved me up a couple of floors in order to shorten the distance I would have to travel to get to God.`` I still cant believe the courage and humor with which that friend faced his death. Two weeks later I was attending his funeral.

All my prayers are with your friend.

We both know, she is at a better place now.

Don`t let your spirits down.

Sincerely,

SoulKeeper

May her soul rest in peace, Amen .

A very touching story. My heartfelt sympathies with you for this loss.

-Avkrishna