It's a long day when I was in a spin throughout. Both mom and Lekha were down - mom had pain at her lower back and Lekha had her's in the lower abdomen. With both of them down, everything had come to a grinding halt and to make matters worse, Lekha's help wasn't available because she was attending the after death ceremonies of her close relative.
The doctors were contacted for medical advice to get the pain under control and for providing quick relief to both. Consequently, quick errands to the nearby chemist were necessary. The effects did take some time to materialise and you bet, those were agonising moments. Getting to use pain killers would have been the easy way out but I've always preferred discussing it out with the concerned medical people to avoid any error and in the process, unwanted escalation of the problem.
Lunch and supper were ordered from the nearby eatery and the takeaways took care of the inactivity of the kitchen. But in the aftermath, seeing the pile of soiled dishes in the sink, I was goaded into action in a hitherto unknown territory and got into the serious business of cleaning them only to realise that it's the toughest job one can think of which demands a lot of care for good results. Many of the ads, concerning the effectiveness of detergents and grease removers, came in and out of focus as I went about the tricky job. Our dishwasher cannot afford to wait any further!
Meanwhile, the routine chores had continued but the hardest thing was to convince the mother-daughter duo treating my mom, that the termination was only temporary and we intended to resume it once we returned after the break that was essential to carry out certain long pending work on my ancestral house. It was not difficult to appreciate that they missed my mom and her winning ways.
Tailpiece.
There are many things in day-to-day life that we take for granted. Some activities look to be simple but one can't afford to miss out on the nuances that go along with them - like say, dish washing. And I've learnt it the hard way!
The doctors were contacted for medical advice to get the pain under control and for providing quick relief to both. Consequently, quick errands to the nearby chemist were necessary. The effects did take some time to materialise and you bet, those were agonising moments. Getting to use pain killers would have been the easy way out but I've always preferred discussing it out with the concerned medical people to avoid any error and in the process, unwanted escalation of the problem.
Lunch and supper were ordered from the nearby eatery and the takeaways took care of the inactivity of the kitchen. But in the aftermath, seeing the pile of soiled dishes in the sink, I was goaded into action in a hitherto unknown territory and got into the serious business of cleaning them only to realise that it's the toughest job one can think of which demands a lot of care for good results. Many of the ads, concerning the effectiveness of detergents and grease removers, came in and out of focus as I went about the tricky job. Our dishwasher cannot afford to wait any further!
Meanwhile, the routine chores had continued but the hardest thing was to convince the mother-daughter duo treating my mom, that the termination was only temporary and we intended to resume it once we returned after the break that was essential to carry out certain long pending work on my ancestral house. It was not difficult to appreciate that they missed my mom and her winning ways.
Tailpiece.
There are many things in day-to-day life that we take for granted. Some activities look to be simple but one can't afford to miss out on the nuances that go along with them - like say, dish washing. And I've learnt it the hard way!
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