August 5-6, 2003-Home Alone with Just Mummyji and Papaji
Yesterday we got back from our weekend, and for some reason I was very very tired all day and had a heavy head...I had thought of getting the last few days of my journal off but really had no strength to do it..it was also very warm last night and in the end I went to sleep early and woke up feeling better this morning. So I think today I will just take it easy. Ravin is going out for a job interview sometime today and also this evening out to dinner with friends, so I will have access to the computer quite a lot. I imagine I will get the whole journal caught up with today, and the rest of the day just hang out and read and listen to music which I haven't done for some time...will just get down here a few thoughts from yesterday and this morning and then go and start catching up.
Maid went out yesterday for a couple of hours and hasn’t turned up yet. They say she does this fairly often. So, last nite we had "take away" and most of it I couldn't eat but I did manage some stuff which even a week ago I would not have been able to so things are looking up. Ravin's father remembered they had some apple jam in the house, so I topped it all up with toast and butter and jam...I was quite happy!
Maid didn't get back by this morning either so I went into the kitchen and found "papa" preparing breakfast! Last night it was the most natural thing for me to start clearing the table, but Rita would hear nothing of it...and this morning I could have easily prepared myself, and anyone else who wanted some breakfast, but realized it would not be allowed so didn't even suggest...this morning, when I started to clear off again, same response but I just continued and cleared off as much as I could...
Last night I slept early and did my regular morning today for the first time in several days...and it really starts my day off properly...But I have had a heavy head since yesterday and still do this morning. I realized finally that I simply have not been drinking enough and must be more careful with that ...will keep a full bottle with me at all times like I do at home...More later
Well, it is now Wednesday and I will finish this up...I've been drinking alot and am already feeling much better. Really did nothing much yesterday...good day just to relax..had my usual massage....Ravin went out last night with friends and I was left alone with his parents for the first time...no problem, but then came dinner time...and for the first time I really ate too much and paid the price all night. I had the usual little of this little of that, and there was a roti filled with cheese, and without being asked I was also served an egg...I managed to finish everything and eat my curd, when Rita asked for another roti...thought it was for her...then she said..."eat" and I simply couldn’t'...she gave half to Ravin's father who was ever so please...I think he mostly doesn't eat them for health reasons...and then again insisted that I take the other half...well, to avoid a hassle I did, but it was hard going. And when I went to sleep my stomach really started in on me...felt bloated, and my stomach actually hurt which is new for me since I rarely overeat. And then I also got heartburn...I used the ginger which helped but then finally got up and took Tums which also helped...but still woke up feeling really bad this morning. So I simply asked for an apple for breakfast which I received to surprised looks. Then Ravin also gave me an ayurveda stomach pill...I must comment on the ayurveda stuff...everything I've gotten so far for common problems have worked remarkably well and fast...cough syrup which immediately turned a potential dry and persistent cough into a soft cough overnight...some prickly heat powder which immediately started to heal the heat sores I have on my bum...and now the stomach thing which worked in less than an hour...
Just one more observation from our ride to and from Mahabalipuram....driving through Chennai you see one after another institutes of higher learning and medical facilities and research facilities...the people they produce are demanded world wide in all fields...and then eventually we got to an hi-tech industrial park called Tidal Park which could compete with any modern park of this type anywhere in the world...and DIRECTLY across the street from it, along a dirty stream of sorts, are the shacks I described in a previous mail ....the contrast is so astounding as to be surreal....but this is India!
Maid went out yesterday for a couple of hours and hasn’t turned up yet. They say she does this fairly often. So, last nite we had "take away" and most of it I couldn't eat but I did manage some stuff which even a week ago I would not have been able to so things are looking up. Ravin's father remembered they had some apple jam in the house, so I topped it all up with toast and butter and jam...I was quite happy!
Maid didn't get back by this morning either so I went into the kitchen and found "papa" preparing breakfast! Last night it was the most natural thing for me to start clearing the table, but Rita would hear nothing of it...and this morning I could have easily prepared myself, and anyone else who wanted some breakfast, but realized it would not be allowed so didn't even suggest...this morning, when I started to clear off again, same response but I just continued and cleared off as much as I could...
Last night I slept early and did my regular morning today for the first time in several days...and it really starts my day off properly...But I have had a heavy head since yesterday and still do this morning. I realized finally that I simply have not been drinking enough and must be more careful with that ...will keep a full bottle with me at all times like I do at home...More later
Well, it is now Wednesday and I will finish this up...I've been drinking alot and am already feeling much better. Really did nothing much yesterday...good day just to relax..had my usual massage....Ravin went out last night with friends and I was left alone with his parents for the first time...no problem, but then came dinner time...and for the first time I really ate too much and paid the price all night. I had the usual little of this little of that, and there was a roti filled with cheese, and without being asked I was also served an egg...I managed to finish everything and eat my curd, when Rita asked for another roti...thought it was for her...then she said..."eat" and I simply couldn’t'...she gave half to Ravin's father who was ever so please...I think he mostly doesn't eat them for health reasons...and then again insisted that I take the other half...well, to avoid a hassle I did, but it was hard going. And when I went to sleep my stomach really started in on me...felt bloated, and my stomach actually hurt which is new for me since I rarely overeat. And then I also got heartburn...I used the ginger which helped but then finally got up and took Tums which also helped...but still woke up feeling really bad this morning. So I simply asked for an apple for breakfast which I received to surprised looks. Then Ravin also gave me an ayurveda stomach pill...I must comment on the ayurveda stuff...everything I've gotten so far for common problems have worked remarkably well and fast...cough syrup which immediately turned a potential dry and persistent cough into a soft cough overnight...some prickly heat powder which immediately started to heal the heat sores I have on my bum...and now the stomach thing which worked in less than an hour...
Just one more observation from our ride to and from Mahabalipuram....driving through Chennai you see one after another institutes of higher learning and medical facilities and research facilities...the people they produce are demanded world wide in all fields...and then eventually we got to an hi-tech industrial park called Tidal Park which could compete with any modern park of this type anywhere in the world...and DIRECTLY across the street from it, along a dirty stream of sorts, are the shacks I described in a previous mail ....the contrast is so astounding as to be surreal....but this is India!
posted by Jane @ 8:25 PM
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