The ending lesson

FICTION

As I have finished my sessionals  now , i m once more free to tell you stories . . Lets begin..

 I m showing you a student, a medical student studying for his exams . You can see a pile of huge medical text books lying in his table. I wonder how he can study that much, but he has to study , because there is an exam the next day. Oh I forgot to introduce him. He is vish. , Vishwanath to be precise. . Tomorrow is medicine exam and he is worried and tense because medicine is such a huge topic to read! And he has got this irritating headache . . Probably tension headache,  He tells himself.

‘ But why am I getting this neck pain. . Too irritating. !’ He hates to study in such a small congested room but what to do? he doesn’t have the money to be in a big flat. He thinks of all the rich friends and their luck.

‘ There , you vermin!’ He screams out of frustration. He has seen one more cockroach scurrying away. He searches for the insect spray. Its lying above the cupboard. He reaches the cupboard and gets it and sprays it over the cockroach. It wriggles and dies. . He throws the spray down the table. . Thats his habit you see. . To put all the things under  the table. . Now back to study. He says and sits on chair. Puff.  . The light goes off. .

*#@& . . He screams out of frustration . . Today is not my day. . Lets find that emergency lamp . He starts groping in dark . ‘Aah. . ‘ The neck pain increases .  Where is that pain relief spray? Again , under the table. Still groping he gets and sprays it over his neck .  ‘Lets put some more it might help to keep me awake throughout the night, I have to stay awake to finish reading all the stuff..on the second thought I’ll read one chapter now and sleep for a while get up early and study.’

 I know many of you have done this on the previous day of your exams..haven’t you??

But the neck pain doesn’t subside, he hasn’t even felt the chilly relaxing feel that you get after spraying menthol over the skin. Fortunately power comes back. Vish starts to read again..’Hmm  I would like to finish poisoning chapter now, it’s the easiest one’ He opens the chapter and begins to read.

Organophosphate poisoning : Organophosphates are one of the most powerful poisons .They are easily available in market and are the most common poisons used for suicides. Early manifestations are due to inhibition of the enzyme cholinesterase  and the resultant accumulation of acetylcholine in different anatomic sites. Muscarinic, nicotinic, and central nervous system signs result .

The muscarinic signs consist of pin-point pupils, vomiting, salivation, diarrhoea, rhinorrhoea, bradycardia and pulmonary oedema. The central signs include impaired consciousness, bilateral hyperreflexia and extensor plantars. Blah blah blah………………………….

He suddenly recognizes something is not right… he’s got this intense nauseating feeling..he gets up  and runs to the toilet and vomits..

’oh this is not good..I might have had some bad food today or is it because of headache??’

He washes his mouth  and slowly limps towards chair, fatigue is setting in , he feels it .but he needs to finish the one last chapter and he will do it.

He starts reading again.

Poisoning is usually by ingestion for suicidal purposes, but can occur during spraying by absorption through the skin. Patients  die due to drowning in his own secretions due to muscarinic stimulation of the parasympathetic system and uncontrollable bronchorrhoea.

He feel terribly ill again…that nausea has come back and he has to run now. But as he gets up, the world starts spinning and he collapses , vomiting on the floor. He is very anxious now, as he notices his mouth is full of saliva.. he tries to get up, coughing ..but  he falls down again, this time with severe chest pain. The coughing increases in intensity, each one with that piercing pain. He tries to breathe but he can’t..to his ultimate horror he knows that fluid is creeping into his airway, slowly drowning him internally. The fear of death is so very real in his face. He tries to get hold of something. He gets a can on his hand, It’s the one which he had thrown few minutes back , under  the table, he tries to read but he cant read anymore, as his vision gets blurred. But he realizes the truth now, far too late..

 

As he descends into unconsciousness, we move away from the scene..oh yeah after taking a look at his hand. We are only observers here..coming back to the scene, that’s the  insecticide in his hand, with POISON written in bold letters. Also if you need more details, its given below the warning. organophosphate poison, avoid skin contact..

The pain relief spray is over the cupboard, you notice now..it wasn’t below the table..

…………………Some lessons  you’ll  never learn in your life…………………..