--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Kalyani Krishnamachari <kkrishnamachari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Kalyani Krishnamachari <kkrishnamachari@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [chicago-local-group] Sri Krishanamchari
> To: andavan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ramanujamission@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, azhwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> chicago-local-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 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 parkinsonâs, 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 didnât. 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 â 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 â when to pull the life support
> out (when I hesitated, the argument given to me by doctors
> was â donât think you are killing him; he could have
> died in the bus). Didnât want to lose him right way; so,
> I went with âdonât pull the life support, but you do not
> have to give any new treatments like dialysis etc; let
> nature take its courseâ. His heart started beating on his
> own; so all medicines were withdrawn. Another 2 days,
> another pressure â can we pull the ventilator out? Since
> kidney was getting worse and worse, I had to go with â do
> not pull the tube from his
> mouth; just shut the ventilatorâ. 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 Acaryanâs
> tiruvaDi.
>
> Was he waiting for his family to come and see him? Was he
> waiting for all his brothersâ kids and my sistersâ 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 â who is going to call me every
> second for misplaced eyeglasses? Who is going to call me to
> tell me â you left the âhâ 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 â 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 â get off the PC and
> go take a bath? Who is going to tell me â donât 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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