Fw: [chicago-local-group] Sri Krishnamachari

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--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Kalyani Krishnamachari <kkrishnamachari wrote:

 

> Kalyani Krishnamachari <kkrishnamachari

> [chicago-local-group] Sri Krishanamchari

> andavan , ,

oppiliappan , azhwar ,

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> Sunday, December 21, 2008, 6:50 AM

> namaskaram.

>

> It is overwhelming to read all the postings and emails on

> Sri Krishnamachari.

>

> It was my misfortune that took him away from us all. But,

> he is going to a better place with eternal bliss; no more

> heart problems, no more neuropathies, no more trigeminal

> neuralgias, no more attack of parkinson’s, no more

> blapherospasms in the eyes, no more worry about medicine for

> the one affecting the other. How much can a body take?

>

> On Thursday, December 9 (kaisika ekadasi day), Sri

> Krishnamachari was returning from work in a bus to catch the

> train to come home; he had forgotten to take his cell phone

> with him that day; he would have normally called from work

> before he left; but, he didn’t. In the bus, he is said to

> have had an erythma attack and fallen down; there is no

> account of how long he was down; some nurses who were

> traveling in the bus found him and tried to revive him and

> called the ambulance; by the time he was admitted in the

> emergency, it was 20 minutes and he had 2 more erythma

> attacks. For another 40 minutes or so, they could not get

> his pulse. When our daughter held his hand and told him that

> she was there and amma is coming, his pulse came back, which

> surprised all the doctors there. I arrived at the spot much

> later. Our son arrived from LA the next morning. Our close

> family members arrived also.

>

> Prognosis was – his brain and organs had no oxygen for

> more than an hour and got damaged. He had seizures that

> night; even after 48 hours, he did not wake up and reflexes

> were not back. Four different medications were pumping his

> heart, ventilator was breathing for him. Kidney failed.

> Everything else started going downhill. I was asked make the

> toughest decision in life – when to pull the life support

> out (when I hesitated, the argument given to me by doctors

> was – don’t think you are killing him; he could have

> died in the bus). Didn’t want to lose him right way; so,

> I went with ‘don’t pull the life support, but you do not

> have to give any new treatments like dialysis etc; let

> nature take its course’. His heart started beating on his

> own; so all medicines were withdrawn. Another 2 days,

> another pressure – can we pull the ventilator out? Since

> kidney was getting worse and worse, I had to go with ‘ do

> not pull the tube from his

> mouth; just shut the ventilator’. On Thursday, 12/17,

> around 3 pm, the ventilator was slowed down gradually and

> when it was totally shut off, he started breathing on his

> own; his pulse rate was sound. We were told that the

> duration will be unpredictable; so, we watched him like a

> hawk during that night; around midnight, his BP started

> going down, and around 4:15 am (12/18), he breathed his

> last, passed peacefully and attained our Acaryan’s

> tiruvaDi.

>

> Was he waiting for his family to come and see him? Was he

> waiting for all his brothers’ kids and my sisters’ kids

> and all the Chicago friends to come and see him? Was he

> waiting for me to come to terms with life, become ready to

> let him go? May be. All I am proud of is, as much as I

> could, I pulled my strength and chanted dvayam in his ears

> almost all the time, especially during his last hours. I

> want to believe that he was not dead in the bus; he died

> peacefully with his family around and with dvayam ringing

> his ears.

>

> Our family would like to thank one and all, grieving with

> us this moment; it means a lot to us and is very consoling.

>

>

> He had at least one wish that did not get fulfilled; he

> wanted to get his Vishnu sahasranamam published as a regular

> book; my son and I will try to collect all his materials

> from his laptop and see what we can do to accomplish that.

>

> I am ending with this – who is going to call me every

> second for misplaced eyeglasses? Who is going to call me to

> tell me – you left the ‘h’ in Satrughna, check this

> dictionary, that dictionary, go get the other references and

> provide reference numbers for all slokams? Who am I going to

> argue with – no, acaryan said only my way, not your way;

> why are you nitpicking on everything I write? Who is going

> to edit my acarya ramamrtam books with eyes affected by

> blapherospasm? Who am I going to say – get off the PC and

> go take a bath? Who is going to tell me – don’t run away

> to watch TV; you have to give more when you write; you

> cannot just translate into English without putting life into

> it?

>

> We are going to do the 9th thru 13th ceremonies in

> Kumbakonam; this is what he would have liked also - to reach

> the astral plane from his home town where his 2 brothers

> are.

>

> Warm regards,

> SrImad ANDavan tiruvaDi,

> Kalyani Krishnamachari (very blessed to have a fine family

> and lots and lots of friends)

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