My mother, Mrs. Sebastin Victoria, is a retired nurse who spent all her adult life caring for all her patients with kindness and patience. Her life so far has been an act of service and love, of one kind or the other, towards everyone she has ever encountered. On the 3rd of July, 2025, she had to have an emergency bypass surgery for 4 blocks in her heart, at Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Mogappair, Chennai. Post the surgery, as we eagerly awaited her recovery, many big and small complications began to arise, including fluid accumulation around her heart, drop in urine output (indicating kidneys struggling), fluctuating BP, heart rate, and SpO2 levels. All of this resulted in her needing an emergency procedure to remove the fluids putting pressure on the heart, getting back on the ventilator support, requiring a tracheostomy (for the prolonged ventilator support), increased heart support injections, etc.

As of today (22nd July, 2025), 19 days at the Adult Intensive Care Unit (AICU) since the bypass surgery, she continues to have very significant medical support for her heart, lungs, and kidneys - including heart support injections, ventilator, and diuretics.

The doctors are noting small and significant improvements every day, and we are hopeful of her full recovery, slowly, but surely. She has currently been mobilised, sits on the chair for a good part of the day, does physiotherapy exercises and spirometry, interacts via hand gestures with doctors, nurses, ICU staff, and me.

Since her medical condition requires utmost attention and care, she continues to be closely monitored and cared for at the AICU, and this comes with its own high expenses per day.  The medical bills have come to upwards of 20,00,000 INR already, for which I have exhausted all credit cards and all resources known to me to borrow money and avail loans. We currently anticipate another 2 weeks of stay at the hospital until her full recovery. For those of you who are able to, I humbly request you to contribute whatever you can to my mother's medical funds. This support will help me pay the bills at the AICU for the coming days, until she crosses the critical stage, and after, for further medical treatments and post-op care, and repay some of the huge mountain of loans I have incurred so far.

My mother really is my everything, and I truly, with all my might, hope and wish and pray that I soon get to bring her back home with me, to care, love, attend to, nourish, and celebrate, for everything she has been and continues to be.