Muscular dystrophy fails to dent Jalandhar girl's confidence

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 20

The pandemic has proved disastrous for almost everyone. For the family of Randeep Kaur (22), who suffers from muscular dystrophy, the pandemic has increased the problems manifold, as her father lost his job during Covid and had to start a small photostat shop. The family is now suffering from financial problems. This is a tale of the family that is going on despite several setbacks.

Randeep, a graduate, has been suffering from muscular dystrophy since her childhood. The problem is so grave that she cannot move even a single body part on her own, except her hands and fingers slowly. Her mother Harpreet Kaur has been doing it all for her child.

“We have become one. If she suffers, I suffer with her,” said Harpreet. The mother said she stays up for her daughter all night to make her turn the side, taking care of her neck, moving her arm and setting her back at a particular position, so that she doesn’t feel discomfort while sleeping.

Randeep, a topper in academics, wants to clear civil services exams for which she has been working hard. “She has been a great student all her life. Now she wants to take admission in a postgraduate course and also wants to clear the civil services exam. We don’t understand how is she so patient and calm all the time, even when it is not easy for a person to sit without moving for long periods of time, but she does it every day. I believe that the almighty will listen to her wish of clearing the exam and become something in life,” an emotional Harpreet said.

“As it is not possible for Randeep to go to Chandigarh to take the examination, we are thinking to modify the car so that the wheelchair could be easily adjusted in the car,” her mother added.

“But since my husband lost his job, and now doesn’t earn much, we don’t know where we would get the money from to modify the car. We are left with no option but to ask relatives for help,” she said.

“A mother’s love knows no bounds. She can sacrifice everything and be it any problem, a mother stands as a shield in front of her children. My mother has proved it. She is like my soul and I want to do everything for my family who have spent their whole life looking after me,” Randeep concluded.