04/02/2023
It was January 2022
My wife and I were attending a friends wedding in Gujarat.
The hotel was a little far from the city in a small town.
The location was beautiful.
It was a very old Palace turned into a Luxury Hotel.
We were having a great time at the wedding.
Since it was mid January the weather was really good and cold.
It was around 8pm and the wedding ceremony was going on.
We were sitting on a sofa and enjoying the wedding.
The temperature was dropping and it was getting cold.
It was in an open ground and the entire palace was lit up for the wedding.
While the wedding ceremony was on one side.
On the other side this amazing local band was playing wedding songs.
There were 2 singers, and a band of people who were playing different instruments.
Out of which one was a tabla (instrument) player.
Suddenly the tabla player stopped playing the instrument and started breathing heavily.
He started making loud noises.
He was definitely asking for help but since he could hardly breathe he was making loud noises.
The band members started to panic trying to figure out what was wrong with him.
He was just grasping for air from his nose and mouth being wide open.
We were sitting right next to the band and everything was happening right in front of our eyes.
At that moment my wife told me Harshil there is a guest at the wedding whom we know and he is a Doctor.
She told me to find him and get him.
From far I could see the doctor standing with a few people talking.
I ran towards the doctor and told him about the situation.
The doctor and myself ran back towards the tabla player who was still trying to grasp air from his mouth, nose and eyes were just wide open.
The doctor at that moment said he is having a Seizure.
The doctor did everything in his power to help the tabla player.
The doctor told us to wrap him in multiple layers of blankets.
We started removing the sofa covers and wrapped him up.
The doctor told us to move him to one side and make him comfortable.
We made him lay down and turned him on the side.
He just lost consciousness.
His band members started to panic and thought they lost him.
But the doctor was still holding his hand and kept telling him - Don’t worry, I am here, you are going to be fine.
Don’t worry, I am here, you are going to be fine.
After around 60 seconds he opened his eyes.
Started taking shallow breaths and came back to consciousness.
Since we were in a remote location, the ambulance came after 15 mins.
Had the doctor not been there the tabla player might have lost his life.
The Doctor saved his life.
It wasn’t good luck for the tabla player that we had a doctor at the wedding.
But the Doctor was at the Right Time at the Right Place for the table player.
Lesson Learnt - When something miraculous happens we say it’s Good Luck.
But what is Good Luck - Good Luck is just having something/someone at the Right Time at the Right Place!
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