There are some things in life in which right is considered wrong. Staying on the right could cause dangerous and harmful for somebody. You may feel it weird. But it’s true. Moreover it is one of the rarest incidents when everybody of us believes right is abnormal! But the most peculiar of all this is that the person who left something for right does not have any feeling at all!! Caught in a muddle? Here I am going to make it straight.

I am telling about one Dilip Singh Dodia of Dhar District, more than 250 Km from Bhopal . A pianist by profession this 32 year old man has been living in quite anonymity with deeply engrossing his music and stage shows until recently he met on accident and got multiple fractures on his right leg. After being taken to a trauma centre and having been decided to go for an immediate operation, the mandatory X-ray on the left of his chest was done.

There came the real shocker to the medico who was examining the X-ray plate. It was clear on the point: there was a lung on the left side of Dilip’s chest and not much else!!

Looking at the man right in front of him who has no heart and still alive, the puzzled and panic-stricken doctor summoned his colleague. Completely baffled now those two doctors hastily started exploring him. A little later, the creases on their foreheads were straighten up and  smile lifted on their faces. They were just discovered a rarest of the rare cases called “Dextrocardia”. Dodia has that extremely rare congenial condition in which one’s heart is on the right side of the chest instead of the left.

Although Dilip is now feeling relieved to know that he is not a ‘heartless’ fellow after all, his doctor still likes to keep him under observation to find whether Dodia’s “dextrocardia” is accompanied with “situs inversus”—a condition where all one’s organs switch positions, leaving the chest and abdominal cavities looking like mirror images of those of normal person.

The astounding fact here is that with all this awkwardness in his body from his birth Dilip had never been to a hospital before! The Doctor said he was in good health and his heart was functioning normally.

O.K. Dilip wish you a speedy recovery and let’s all see that you are playing the tune in your Piano “My heart will go on.....” forever.