Saturday, October 30, 2010

And it's struck again!

On the occasion of our wedding anniversary on 16 May, I’d written about Lekha being a patient of SLE and how her ailment had been brought under control. She’s been off medicines for the last 10 years. After 17 years, the wretched ailment has reared its ugly head.

Actually, for almost the last two months she has been put on a variety of pain killers and anti inflammatory drugs, by her doctor the genial Dr. Ramachandran, when she’d complained of excruciating pain on her left knee. No amount of variations in dosages or changes could bring down the intensity of pain. It’s an agonizing sight to see her get up early in the morning and sit on her side of the bed, preparing to haul herself up(in what seems to be like ages to me, at times) to go about her normal chores.

My cousin and her folks had, in the meanwhile, booked their tickets for a ten day visit to us beginning last Thursday and I’d wanted to tell them to call it off because of Lekha’s ailment. But it was she who’d prevailed upon me not to do so, saying that things were manageable. And today, we’d to go to NOIDA to fulfill our monthly appointment, after our guests had kicked off on the first leg of their tour.

Lekha seemed to be in extreme pain though she bravely went through the requirements and we’d gone to her doctor in the evening. Keeping in mind her impending trip to Kochi, to attend Sharanya’s wedding, the doctor has decided to put her on steroids. This was a painstaking decision but for all the pain that she’s going through, there’s no other alternative and I only hope that the ailment would be under control soon.

As I’d said earlier, there’s never a dull moment. Never!

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