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What do you do when misfortune keeps knocking at your door? Our unending ordeals and lessons learned.
You must open the door, let it in, stay with it, fight with it, and chase it out. Wait for the next knock, and repeat the same process.
We have a modest living income from a modest market research agency we floated in 1996.
Until two years ago, we enjoyed our lives like vagabonds, when the first stroke of misfortune struck us. Just before this, my wife launched a food channel on YouTube, and I became a published author of my first novel (a sci-fi pre-historical fiction).
The first knock (September 2022)
We had gone to collect an award, bestowed upon me for my novel, driving down for 5 hours from Jaipur to Delhi. As the function concluded, we rose to depart and she fell like a pack of cards. There were enough people to pull her up. She gained strength and we walked to a cafeteria about a hundred meters away. We had coffee and a bit of nicknack and rose to go to our hotel room.
She fell again and became unconscious. She was transported to a hospital where an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) was conducted on her and blood clots were identified in her brain. She was declared to have suffered a cerebral stroke.
