Monday, December 17, 2018

Another day at the hospital!

Got up at a half past 4, early in the morning and then, sleep was in fits and starts for no obvious reason. Around a half past 6, Sister Elsa had come to tell me as to what was being planned for the day and said that it would commence after the doctor saw me during his morning rounds. She'd come along with her 19 year old differently abled daughter, Christie - an adorable little girl with whom I shook hands. The mother was distraught because the child had developed a seizure around 3 AM.

Wonder what the ways of God are and why's He agonising the poor, little thing? She's being taken to the Amritha Hospital later in the day.

The doctor came on his rounds, suggested a few more tests and said that I'd be discharged tomorrow, consequently! So there goes my plans to be with Lekha for her appointment with the ophthalmologist, tomorrow. Ramakrishnan will, of course, be accompanying her.

Murali Nair did not fetch up as he had told me earlier. He did tell me about a meeting of his residential management system.

Could speak to Girija, a cousin of mine who'd chosen to stay away from the family for her own reasons, for so many years. She seems to have faced many vagaries of life and has become cynical - a far cry from the highly energetic and friendly, eldest daughter of Appukkuttan kochachhan and Saudamini chittamma, that we all knew her to be! She has promised to stay connected with me from now on.

Charlie Mike had called to find out as to how I was.

Otherwise, it was a quiet day at the hospital.

The results of today's tests had reached by about 1600 hrs though I got to see them much later. they were:-

      (a) Bilirubin                   1.9
      (b) SGOT                     81
      (c) SGPT                      83.

(The readings from Rajah Hospital, taken a day before were 1.8, 63 and 69! No wonder the saying that no two labs' results match, ever! Wonder why?). And the normal readings are 1 and less than 45 for both.<45 attain="" each="" further="" go="" have="" i="" normalcy.="" p="" so="" still="" to="">

Tailpiece.

1. Met Sister Rekha who was on duty. She'd visited me a month earlier during the doctor's rounds and said that she'd wanted to meet me ever since after hearing about my social activities from the others. She and her husband, a Deputy Commandant in the Coast Guard, are very much inclined towards doing social activities. They're intending to collect books and set up libraries - of course, with the introduction of a layered system of buying and handing over the book collections. I'v advised her as to how to go about the activity and lauded their use of technology towards the project.

2. Spoke to Usha, the younger sister of Girija. It was nice catching up with her.

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