Mortury to Mountains grit & determination Shekhar Goud on PassionTalks

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#Mortuary to #Elbrus, #killimanjaro, #brevets #kashmir to #kanyakumari cycling. THis is story of Shekhar... I am Sheker Goud from Hyderabad. Today I am here to share my life journey so far and to be precise my visible impairment. I come from a very humble background and hail from Nalgonda in Telangana. I was studying a certificate course in Electrical trade from Nalgonda ITI. On 24 December, 2006 I was speaking over my mobile phone and sitting on a wall which was adjacent to an electrical transformer, it was a rented house in which I was living while doing my certificate course. While I was completely engrossed in the conversation with my friend, I had no idea how I slipped from the wall and fell down. As I could recollect now, on one side I had transformer and on the other side there were electrical wires. It was situation where my life was at stake, if I had held electrical wire, there was death and if I had fallen down on transformer again there was a death. What happened to me after that I had no idea, next morning when I opened my eyes and I was amongst the dead bodies. To my amazement I was in a mortuary. I could not believe as to what happened to me, I mustered the courage and started walking out of mortuary. As you know ours is country which believes in ghosts, people started thinking that I am also one. They were really scared of me and started running here and there in order to escape my presence amongst them. My right arm became just like a piece of flesh with no movement at all in it. My left leg was also badly injured however was still supporting me in walking. My right leg foot was badly damaged. As there was no energy left in my body. Within 3 hours my entire family was there in the hospital and they scolded the hospital authority and confronted with them that as to how come a living person can be put in a mortuary. As I had lost the significant amount of blood and infection to my wounds was aggravating, doctors’ panel decided to amputate wounded arm and that’s where my ordeal started. They amputated it once and infection reached to next level and there was another round of amputation. It took a total of four surgeries for my hand to reach at this level where I am today. The Sheker which is standing in front of you has undergone a total of 15 surgeries to breath in this state.