WHERE WELLNESS BLOOMS
THE WEEK India|July 21, 2024
On May 11, 2022, Kavitha Shanmugam received a jolt of a phone call. “Your husband is alive and breathing,” said the caller from a North Carolina hospital.
POOJA BIRAIA JAISWAL
WHERE WELLNESS BLOOMS

It was about her husband Pravinrajraj Radha’s bicycle accident. What made it worse was that she was in India and he in the US.

Kavitha and Pravinraj, who had been in the US for 12 years, got married in 2018. Kavitha was in India to meet her father, who had met with an accident in 2020. She could visit him only in April 2022 because of the pandemic. On the day of Pravinraj’s accident, Kavitha and he had been on call with each other till 3am, India time. Pravinraj had told her that he would be out cycling once he was done with a meeting. And then, close to noon, she got that fateful call from the hospital.

How bad can a bicycle accident be, Kavitha had initially wondered. But a call with the doctors revealed that Pravinraj had suffered a major traumatic brain injury and was in coma, with a score of three—the lowest score that came with an extremely high mortality rate. Kavitha was told that his chances of survival were slim. Pravinraj was in coma for two months; he did not respond to any commands, except for a slight movement in his fingers. He was advised rehabilitation treatment, but that would be a long and slow process. Since Pravinraj was the sole earning member of the family, it became financially unviable to let him remain in care in the US for long. So, he was flown down to India in a critical condition—he could not talk, was fed through a tube and had a tracheostomy done to help him breathe. When he woke up from the coma, he did not recognise Kavitha and would often ask her to call his wife; Kavitha would then leave the room, call him on his phone and talk to him.

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