My Back Pain

Hi All,

I was having back pain from the last two weeks. I am not sure what was the reason but somehow there was no improvement in spite of using common pain balms.

I went to hospital couple of weeks ago and it was the biggest hospital in Trivandrum. Since my company was making payments directly to the hospital it was automatic choice for me and my friends. We all know that the hospital was very expensive compared to other hospitals but we still went there as there was less headache for settling the hospital bills.

I reached hospital and met a physician. As I mentioned last time, he gave me paracetamol tablets. It didn't do me any good. Also I didn't like the doctor and hence I didn't want to meet the same doctor again. Luckily for me that doctor was not available at that time and I met another doctor, this time another physician. The new doctor was much younger than the first one and I had met him once. He did a very short analysis and he asked me to take blood test and X-rays. I was actually little tensed when doctor told me that he was not ruling out the possibility of Spinal TB. He said that the chance for Spinal TB was very less and he will be able to rule out the possibility of Spinal TB based on results of blood test and X-rays.

The doctor was on leave for the next couple of days and he told me to come on third day with the results. I collected the results for blood test on the very same day and I was quite relieved to see the results of the blood test. The report said everything was fine and I thought doctor would rule out the option of Spinal TB as he promised last time. How wrong I was!

Achan had come here for the extended weekend and he also come along with me to the hospital. We met the doctor and I thought he would suggest some exercises to get over the pain. But doctor told me that he was not able to rule out the possibility even based on results. He suggested me to take MRI scan to completely rule out the possibility. Since we trust doctor's judgement most of the times, I decided to go by what doctor has advised. Another reason why I decided to go by what doctor had advised was, treatment was free for us in that hospital.

We went to take MRI scan in the hospital and the place was not crowded. In fact I was the only patient there. They told me that it will take 20-30 min for scanning. I was asked to change my dress and they gave me a pair of dress to put on while doing the scan.They told me that it will be little hot and loud sounds inside. It was little frightening for me. The whole thing was little suffocating for me even though they told me to relax.But once you are in there's no way out of it. Hence only thing that I could do was to close the eyes and pray. I some how managed it, thats the best that I can say about it.

Once the scanning was completed, I was given the bill. It came to Rs. 8,000. It was bit too much for me to digest and I did not expect bill to be that high. If I was aware of it, I would have taken opinion from couple of other doctors before doing the scanning. Poor company who's going to pay the bills for me.

Next day, I went to the the doctor and as expected he said everything is fine. He told me to meet physiotherapy department. So I went to meet the physiotherapist and he advised me to do few exercises. I think I am going to do few exercises in the coming days and just hope that I will be alright soon.

I heard that doctors are paid commission if they bring income to the hospital. So I made my doctor richer by doing MRI scan. I am not sure if he could have avoided the MRI scan. I feel he could have avoided and as results were more or less evident from the X-rays and blood results. I was also told that, that particular hospital while taking new doctors told them that they had to increase the business of the hospitals. So what will happen to the poor patients who go to such hospitals?But poor people normally don't go to such hospitals. Even if they go there couple of times and doctors refer them for some expensive scans or operations, then they might not go there again. But will I go there again? As long as bill is not paid by me, I will be going there. What about the common man going there? Are any authorities looking in to it? If they have not started, please open your eyes soon.

Another Weekend

It’s yet another weekend. If you ask me which my favorite day in the week is, it has to be Friday. I just love Fridays both at office and also at home. Friday is one day when I have lot of free time at home,where I go to bed little late compared to other days. So I get more time to read or write or watch TV on Friday nights. These days Fridays are even more welcome as I get time to be with my Adi during the weekends.

There was nothing special about last week at home or at work. I saw movie ‘2012’ on last Tuesday. It’s been a while since I saw one English movie at the theatre. Movie was a good one and I enjoyed it. Another thing about this week was, Manu was also to Trivandrum office for some work. I really miss those days when Manu was staying downstairs. It was good to have him at home for dinner.

Adi is growing up every day. These days, it seems he like to play more than sleep. This seems to be happy news for all but when you have a baby at home who doesn’t sleep much then it’s not easy at all. It is much difficult for Amma as she’s the person who is at home during the day time when Anju n me go to office. I like to play with Adi but when it’s holding him to stop him from crying, it’s a different story.

I was having back pain from last week. So I went to hospital and they gave me medicine. I was not happy with the doctor there as he gave me paracetamol tablet for my back pain. I was expecting him to give me some tips for doing some exercises. But we can’t expect the doctor to give us what we need all the time, right? But anyway I didn’t like the doctor and I don’t think I’m going to meet him again. My very first impression of the doctor was not good and when he gave me medicines instead of giving me tips on how to overcome my back pain my dislike become more stronger.

Tomorrow is Anju’s Birthday. I ordered a Black Forest (Her Favorite) cake from Ambrosia. But before keeping it on fridge, she saw it.:-) I was thinking of buying something else along with cake for the Birthday but couldn’t get time to go out buy anything. We might go out for dinner tomorrow, but not finalized. It’s not easy to make plans when we have a baby at home, lets see. When I got some time at techno mall, I managed to go to the book store. I bought one book ‘Eithihyamala’ which basically contains stories about history of old kings on Kerala. I actually like reading those kinds of books. Many of those stories, I already know but I still love reading those books. The books that I’m buying these say, I’m buying it for Adi also. I want him to read all kinds of books and learn new things from reading books. I believe the knowledge that we get from reading books, we can't get it from anywhere else.

Anju n Adu

Hi,

I am enjoying a good weekend at home.Now thats Anju, Adi and Amma are all at home,its real fun to be at home.

This week it was tough time at office.Work was hectic and it might remain same in coming week also. That really worries me as I would have to stay late for few days in the coming week. But when Anju's also going to office its not easy for both of us when one of us has to stay late. Anju's already saying that she can't imagine how she's going to go to office when Adi's at home. It will be really tough for all of us. Hope it will not be that bad as we think. Adi's becoming a really good boy and he does not cry that often these days. Hope Amma will be able to manage him during the day time without Anju.

There is always something special about the relationship between mother and her son,right? And that will remain like always, I think. So I was thinking how Adi will find it when Anju's not at home. I am sure it will be very difficult for him as he will miss his mother when she's not with him. But what will poor Adi do? He cannot do anything except to cry. Hope he will get adjusted to it because it will not be easy for working mothers to stay with their baby all the time. If he is finding it really difficult without Anju, only way left would be try to to get an extension for Anju's maternity leave. But in the current situation it will not be easy to get Loss of Pay leave. But if there's no way out then we might have to think of resignation.

Yesterday it was fun to have Benoy and Basil along their family with us in the evening. Adi was a really nice boy during that time and he was not at all crying when they were here. It will be really difficult for both the guests and hosts when Adi starts crying. No hosts would like to have any guests at home when their baby boy is crying for something. We are no different. Adi thus saved the day for us..Good work Adi.

Adi, Anju n Amma at TVM with me..

Adi, Anju and Amma joined me here at TVM on Nov 1st.

It feels really great to have them with me here. It was quite boring for me without them. Now that Adi is also here with me for the first time, life's totally different. I come home for taking lunch and spend some time with him. He's such a great fun to be with..:-)

When everyone told me that your life will not be same with a baby, I never understood what they meant by it. But now I understand every single word of it.Yes, life's not that same for us anymore. But I don't know how to explain but there are lots of changes in my life. We know that we can't live life just in the way we want to live. Normally when we have that feeling, we are bound to get irritated but when it is for your baby, its totally different. I normally get irritated when I don't have the freedom to do what I like. Now I know very well that I cannot do whatever I like to do but I'm really enjoying this phase.

One thing that I don't like is when my Adi's crying. It makes me more angry when Anju or Amma can't stop him from crying. I know very well that they both love him in the same way I love him but when he's crying I can't think properly. I guess that will be the same with all the parents.

These days I manage to come home from office early and spend time with Adi. At times we stare at each other and we talk with each other. But our language,its a special language.Now when I'm writing this,Adi's sleeping.I just love looking at him when he's sleeping.Adi, we love you a lot....