It is coming to be a fortnight of working in Kachwa.It has been a period of hit and misses.My medical skills as usual are thoroughly tested in these waters.I am flooded with gynaec and obstetric patients in the out-patient and paediatric patients in the in-patient.Most bystanders are tall bullies who just drown you out with their bullying ways.I am still adjusting to the climate so much so that I have not even got around to arranging the kitchen with the scattered bits and bobs I have gathered from Benaras and around.My pressure cooker is still in it's cartoon,I realised today.
At home my mother is still struggling to swallow the multiple pills she has been prescribed.She is taking her vitamin D satchets weekly with another pill to keep the Calcium and phosphate in check everyday and an anti-gout medicine.She was also prescribed sodium bicarbonate tablets which I have stopped for now because she is struggling to swallow the umpteen number of pills.Her appetite is gone for a sixer and I think it is the anti-gout medicine to blame.Every day I call her twice a day to ask after her.She has started going to school and enjoys that bit.It is her way of making sure she is on the move.The only time she gives in and I find her in bed out of hours is, when she feels nauseated ,mostly in the late afternoons.
My father all of 88 and my brother is taking good care of her.
I worry about her though and that is when my world just shrinks.I just want her to feel well.
One of the senior nurses who apparently had worked in EHA earlier needs a lodging now that she is retiring from her goverment job in Kurseong.Dr Anne Urquot had talked to me about her during my visit to Edinburgh.My sister has built a one bedroom house with a hall of sorts on the top,apparently for missionaries and is only too happy to have mission-minded people stay there.I have never met this lady but a lot of common acquaintances seem to know her.I could actually chat with her over the phone.If the Lord wills it I hope it works out because we also would be happy to see the place utilised.However there are other logistics like 'what will she do ?'Will she be able to manage alone?''How will she support herself and many questions like that which needs to be answered still.We leave it in the Lord's hand to take it from here.
I have had my bout of first cold in UP and it is dead hot here.I can forsee a winter of sniffing so I have requested for a flu-vac from Benaras.It used to be real effective in the cold of England without which I have had to sniff my way through a complete year or two.
The electricity here is to be seen to be believed but the hospital provides generator services during the night.
I seem to have lost the stubborn four or five kilograms over the last month or so,I stubbornly kept on throughout the last year.
Life goes on by His grace....I am at it again trying to find a footing out of my comfort zone....treading the waters ,much like Simon Peter.
At home my mother is still struggling to swallow the multiple pills she has been prescribed.She is taking her vitamin D satchets weekly with another pill to keep the Calcium and phosphate in check everyday and an anti-gout medicine.She was also prescribed sodium bicarbonate tablets which I have stopped for now because she is struggling to swallow the umpteen number of pills.Her appetite is gone for a sixer and I think it is the anti-gout medicine to blame.Every day I call her twice a day to ask after her.She has started going to school and enjoys that bit.It is her way of making sure she is on the move.The only time she gives in and I find her in bed out of hours is, when she feels nauseated ,mostly in the late afternoons.
My father all of 88 and my brother is taking good care of her.
I worry about her though and that is when my world just shrinks.I just want her to feel well.
One of the senior nurses who apparently had worked in EHA earlier needs a lodging now that she is retiring from her goverment job in Kurseong.Dr Anne Urquot had talked to me about her during my visit to Edinburgh.My sister has built a one bedroom house with a hall of sorts on the top,apparently for missionaries and is only too happy to have mission-minded people stay there.I have never met this lady but a lot of common acquaintances seem to know her.I could actually chat with her over the phone.If the Lord wills it I hope it works out because we also would be happy to see the place utilised.However there are other logistics like 'what will she do ?'Will she be able to manage alone?''How will she support herself and many questions like that which needs to be answered still.We leave it in the Lord's hand to take it from here.
I have had my bout of first cold in UP and it is dead hot here.I can forsee a winter of sniffing so I have requested for a flu-vac from Benaras.It used to be real effective in the cold of England without which I have had to sniff my way through a complete year or two.
The electricity here is to be seen to be believed but the hospital provides generator services during the night.
I seem to have lost the stubborn four or five kilograms over the last month or so,I stubbornly kept on throughout the last year.
Life goes on by His grace....I am at it again trying to find a footing out of my comfort zone....treading the waters ,much like Simon Peter.
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