On Friday evening, Lekha had returned from her customary walk and while sitting on a low stool to remove her shoes, fell off from it and took the impact of the fall on her right arm. The maid gave her a light massage in the area with a pain removing gel. Though the night was painful for her, Saturday morning saw her doing her daily chores and other jobs of the house without much difficulty, but by afternoon the pain had gained momentum and she was in extreme difficulty to move the arm, even slightly. As is usual, the service hospitals get totally shut down, in a sense, for outpatients and in her case, for the nature of her injury, an exploratory x-ray was a must for medical management.
Meanwhile, I’d got in touch with my friend and family doctor, Ramachandran and briefed him about the situation and based on his instructions, had an x-ray taken in a laboratory close to his clinic and armed with it, reached him. It was confirmed beyond doubt that there was no fracture but, that, it was a ligament tear that was causing her all the misery. Medicines were prescribed and we were out of the clinic by 2030h and got into one of the worst traffic snarls that I’d gotten into, for a while, in Delhi.
Dr. Ramachandran’s clinic is in sector 4 of the colony, Dwarka and by a nasty coincidence, Sai Baba was having his conglomeration in the nearby sector 10 and the increased volume of traffic was conveying a whole lot of his devotees to and from the venue. As I waited for the traffic to move on, my thoughts went back to an earlier topic of mine viz. ‘do we really require an usher to attain our God?’ Or is it that these people consider, being in the bandwagon of a godman’s following, as a status symbol?
The answer to the first query is a definite ‘no’ and the answer to the second, if in the affirmative, then my sympathies are with them!
Meanwhile, I’d got in touch with my friend and family doctor, Ramachandran and briefed him about the situation and based on his instructions, had an x-ray taken in a laboratory close to his clinic and armed with it, reached him. It was confirmed beyond doubt that there was no fracture but, that, it was a ligament tear that was causing her all the misery. Medicines were prescribed and we were out of the clinic by 2030h and got into one of the worst traffic snarls that I’d gotten into, for a while, in Delhi.
Dr. Ramachandran’s clinic is in sector 4 of the colony, Dwarka and by a nasty coincidence, Sai Baba was having his conglomeration in the nearby sector 10 and the increased volume of traffic was conveying a whole lot of his devotees to and from the venue. As I waited for the traffic to move on, my thoughts went back to an earlier topic of mine viz. ‘do we really require an usher to attain our God?’ Or is it that these people consider, being in the bandwagon of a godman’s following, as a status symbol?
The answer to the first query is a definite ‘no’ and the answer to the second, if in the affirmative, then my sympathies are with them!
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