/..I today(17 june 2012) read an article in  'The Hindu' newspaper in page 12....The article is titled My nagging wife, my doctor and a costly scan...(Actually first time my eyes read it as costy scam...).Once i read that article something to happened to us, actually to my daughter danced in fromt of my eyes...I wanted to write it in my blog, so that i could expose the danger we are in because we are illiterates as for as medical field is concerned...Yes!!! illiterates, have you ever been able to read anything a doctor?...No? illiterates we are right?

Good doctors and bad doctors :

So i 'll come to my story...After getting married and not being able to conceive a child i was worried  and  after 3 gynecologists telling nothings wrong but they would like to see me regularly...not to mention the scans that come on packages...One doctor's office said when i called that they had a dte only after  one and half months and they called me in a couple of months to let me know that they have a cancellation and if i went in right then they will be able to help me...nice business tricks...After 4 yrs of these ordeals, I finally found a doctor who found what the problem was and in a second and said if it was there then it has been there since birth and showed it to me too.I now figured that I was scammed all along but was happy to have finally found a good doctor, lost weight of 12 kg, got pregnant in her hands...The good doctor id Dr.Vidyamani...But my daughter was born preterm in 7 months and was shifted to KR hospital..Dr.Janaki Viswanathan saved my baby's life(My baby's ).These two doctors are like Gods in my life and I respect them and only because of people like them exist, doctors still are considered Gods by the public...I noticed that both these doctors have no ego...When my father in law thanked Dr.Janaki for saving the baby she showed her hands upwards saying God....
Then we took our daughter to Dr.J.Prakash...he is a very doctor too...but his the long waiting time in the middle of working day didn't work for us...So we now have started seeing Dr.Ratna, another good doctor too...

Support secularism.......

This riots in Assam are spreading to different states, even to the usually safe southern states.
The papers say that more than 16000 people have fled.I know north eastern people from restaurants, beauty parour and a road side momo shop....All these people make a honest living and are hard working...They are very professional...Why is this happening?...I can't see the kids(a brother and sister from the north east) selling their momos in the road side a juice shop is closed 'coz 2 kids who worked there are from the north east...Very polite kids...The girl selling momos is my little daughter's friend...My daughter calls her 'momos aunty' and loves to go to this momos shop.One day this girl came to me in the road and said hi and spoke to my daughter and explained to me that she knows my daughter from her regular visits to their momos shop with her father and i nodded and smiled and then after she left my 2 yr old(then one and half) pointed to her and said
"momos aunty"....I can't see them now, it's empty there it hurts to see that.I am wondering whether
they were frightened and left for their home town....Why should that sense of fright come to their minds....What did they ever do wrong to anyone...they are honest, hard working, friendly people who thought they were happy and safe and were making a living and my mind races to think how long is it before it happens to us...IS Bangalore Safe anymore? Is any place safe at all? I can't imagine this place being not safe for anyone?Makes me wonder if secularism is the way?Does India need a religion? 

Bragging....... abt my little one...

My little one is my life and her name is Prarthana...Yeah she was born by prayers i think...After 5 years of trying and praying and bargaining with God I got her...I was so desperate for her to happen i prayed i will put turmeric and kumkum in every step of the Tirumala hills....And that's not the only bargain i made and i am blessed with a cute little angel...

She is a preterm kid...born in 7 months...and was hospitalized for 28 days...exactly today two years ago she came into this house, just 1.5kg just bones covered with skin but a very active baby...That was the happiest day in my life...cos i am getting my little princess into my house but mostly because my girl's ordeal ended...Ordeals like the daily blood draws and the constant drip of something... and the incubator... loneliness... yeah lonely cos we were only allowed twice in one day and that too were not allowed to stay long... i don't know how difficult it was for her and hope she doesn't remember that trauma...But i will not forget it until my last breath for sure...

The day i was discharged from my hospital i went straight not to home but to the hospital were my daughter was and i went inside the NICU (only one parent is allowed at a time) and i almost cried when i cudn't locate my baby out of the 24 babies... mothers rushed to their babies just as soon as the doors opened and went in and was blinking looking around...and a very helpful duty doctor rushed to me and asked if it was my first visit and asked my name and walked me to my baby and told me i can touch her, talk to her and i gently touched her and i was standing there for an hour....
Then everyday we wake up at 5.00, my mom pack my lunch and me and hubby left home at 7.00 in the morning, went to the hospital then stayed in a hotel room(not allowed to stay in the hospital) making trips of 3 km every 3 hrs for every feed and finally after the evening visit at 6 to 7 we head home and reach home by 8 or 8.30 depending upon traffic and between this from time to time there will be some kind of scare...now on my sweet little thing will be just with me..

Strictly no visitors...Every feed with mothers feed plus lactogen and she 'll be asleep and have to wake her up which is the worst part, wash her dress by hand by myself, the cleaning, sterilising, bathing the baby and to look back i don't know how i handled this at all.....God i guess...Then so many things like colic, urinary tract infection and a Voiding cysto urethrogram with general ansthesia she went through so much...

But she is the most active and happy baby i have ever encountered...She is the smartest among kids her age...She is 2 and can identify all colors, and say numbers upto 15, couple of rhymes by heart and can identify alphabets upto 'G'(i taught only upto G)...we don't force her to learn anything.....yeah and she also knows to say things for fun and scare me...like if i say there is a lizard there don't go then she 'll go near that place and come running to me coming to tell me that lizard bit her....and if i am scared she 'll laugh like anything...