Wake-Up Calls: Wake-Up, Time to Change Your Path

By Satish D H Thaker

I have tried to recall the tragic events happen in Ten years span from 1985 to 1995, in my life
Some of the events: I call it Wake-Up Calls because those calls were an indications, a gesture, a warning to change the path I was following with the blinkers on my eyes. Call after call to awake me and put me on the right path. First call was a near miss accident where I would have been.. The second call, my elder brother died in a car accident and four weeks later my mother passed away. The third call, the three Ds, friends Devdutt, Damian and Dominic had an accident.
Three warnings are norm but I had the fourth and final warning.. when I had to Wake-Up.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496986948

Satish D H Thaker

Born in Aden, South Yeman , (ex-British Colony)in 1948. Schooling in India @ Panchgini, Bombay & Gurukul Supa, Navsari. 1st year science @ Bhavan’s College, Bombay. Moved to UK 1966, collage education Brooklyn Tech, Mathew Bolton and Garthes Green Tech college in Birmingham. Lived with Gujarati Desai family and Sikh Semi Family. Part time work on the building site and teaching Mathematics & Gujarati language. Join RAF 1970 and de-mobbed 1982. Practiced Tae-Kwon-do, represented RAF stations playing hockey & Vollyball. Participate Three years in International Four Days Marches @ Nijmegen, Holland. Tried mobile curry business in Norwich and petrol Stations in King’s Lynn, Norfolk Got married in 1974 to Kirtida and have grown up son Devdutt, daughter-in-law Krishna and daughter Puja (Jaid). At present , X-ray engineer, full time employed with CHUFT(Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust), NHS, Colchester. Member of the IWL (Improving working Life) committee in the hospital. Committee member of EAIA (East Anglia Inadian Association). Volunteering work with Colchester Lions Club and Amalthea Trust to train Ugandans in Bio-Medical Engineering in 2011, 2012 & 2014. Interest in soothing music, inspirational talks, travelling, cooking and eating out.

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Published by AuthorHouse 07/16/2014

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 From a Nine-to-Five Job to a Six-to-Eleven Business

Chapter 2 Wake-Up Call 1: Narrowly Avoided Head-On Collision

Chapter 3 Wake-Up Call 2: Mother and Brother’s Death

Chapter 4 Wake-Up Call 3: Three Ds in a Car Accident

Chapter 5 Final Wake-Up Call: My Dear Son and Meningitis

Chapter 6 Meningitis and Septicaemia

About the Author

About the Book

Introduction

I have expressed my wake-up calls through stories that happened during the span of a decade in my journey – or life chapter – as a petrol station owner. In each chapter, I’ve tried to cover events as they occurred. Each wake-up call was ignored, not purposely but without my realization of what was happening. And then I spent the night at a hospital bedside when my son was ill with meningitis. Eventually I was connected to my soul.

None of the incidents are dramatized. I have tried to express each one exactly as it happened. It took almost ten years before I discovered my soul’s agenda. It also took enormous courage and bravery to change my direction. The business was thriving. Staff and regular customers were happy. Raj, my partner, was happy because West Winch Service Station was one of the best within his business portfolio. But my family life