Air travel on a strecher

My air travel was an experience. I was taken in a stretcher and placed on the floor (after removing a row of three seats in the front). People who pass by put on a sympathetic look.Lying down I could see only legs and nothing else;shoes with socks,without socks,sandals,slippers and a couple of bare feet! when we landed, Chennai was wet with heavy rain.when you are sick the self pity overtakes;I imagined the whole place crying over my misfortune. But I should say that a couple of my doctor friends from Perambur hosp,hospitalambulance staff,number of my relatives were there to receive me;some of them brokedown too seeing my pathetic condition-toneless body,bilateral facial palsy giving a grotesque appearance;my talk was so much unintelligible that when I tried to thank them for their concern, no one could make out what I was trying to convey which only made them more sympathetic.I reached the hospital horizontally.My days in Cal was more of anxiety about survival.Now I knew that stage has passed but anticipation of the gloom of my future.will I be able to walk or wheel-chair bound,still worse become horizontal hariharan.Pain-so annoying,how to describe except to say that it is PAINFUL.I knew the ordeal has just begun.some of the handicaps will remain probably I should learn to live with them.Life is not going to be the same anymore.
Today when I think that I was lying on my back not one day or two days more than three months-100 days and unable to move even the finger tip and needed help for survival is mind boggling. My incapacity caused physical and psychological inconvenience to many, esp my wife whose black hair started greying.During this period I learned all about GBS, muscle actions by discuing with the medicos and somrone reading to me as I cannot even move my fingers leave alone hold anything like a book or journal.
Good hearted relatives and friends sent us food regularly and looked after our other needs.when you are sick you want to see people which is a common psychology;I had regular visitors.This day of the wk this time so and so will come-to that extant I could say.otherwise we would have been depressed by boredom.During this period some of the strained relationships also got smoothened out.