In Sickness and in Health

Anand Singh, 59, has been entirely disabled for the last 23 years. Singh was posted with the Indian Navy in Vishakhapatnam when he met with a motorbike accident and sustained injuries to his brain stem, which put him in a coma for a year. This was just three years after his marriage with Ivy Singh, who has been taking care of him ever since. Ivy, who heads a school in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, admits that her home sometimes feels like an ICU, but says her life would be incomplete without Anand. She brushes his teeth and bathes him daily, speaking to him all the time. According to Ivy, whenever she asks him who he loves the most, he looks towards her. It is difficult for her sometimes though, Ivy adds, since she is the only one in the family looking after him, and more so because she doesn’t know how much longer he will be with her. Just two months ago, Anand had to be put on ventilator support for a few days

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Raul Irani