• An apple a day



    Consultancy and consultants

    My father has been a doctor for all of my life and I have grown up with stories of how he has to consult in  Corridors, Elevators , Parties and even the occasional railway platform where he’s had patients accost him with the problem of  the Pimple-before-the-Wedding or Itch-they-can’t-control.

    But he’s not the only one having to deal with advice in strange places. I, as a  mere mortal living an ordinary life, have been the recipient of odd advice from strange sources all my life too! I’ve had a grouchy old grandma watching me handle a decidedly yellow infant in a crowded lift, tell me how a chain of fresh garlic pods will cure jaundice,  or a pretty young thing by the poolside recounting her sister’s experience of dealing with a febrile toddler by pouring brandy over the navel and  bringing down temperature sharply! I’ve also  heard advice that slathering feet with a balm and cladding them with socks the whole night through  would  make a chesty cough vanish miraculously  by sunrise! And of course being a sucker for free advice I do follow the tips that are easiest to follow albeit with a trace of scepticism.

    There are more cures than there are diseases and I’ve tried all kinds of stuff like the Kampuchean Mushroom Therapy, the Regulat therapy, the Lemon juice weight reduction therapy and even the Flaxseed in the morning therapy to bring down my Cholesterol ( in case I have it!). So when some one suggested an apple first thing in the morning and a Vit B complex tablet late at night ( apart from the regular medications ) as an easy way to bring down Sugar levels, I tried it out on Hubby dear.

    And I’m pleased to share with all of you that this works!

    Since there are so many diabetics who find it hard to walk or diet and control their sugars, this then is an easy way out.

    Try it! You don’t really have any thing to lose but your sugar levels.

  • Changing families

    It was around two in the afternoon. It was hot and the fan made slow circles in the air. Nam Ju had come for her English lesson and we were having a pleasant conversation about a Korean lady who provides accommodation for Korean ex-pats living in Mumbai without their families. The phone rang and she attended to it. Her voice suddenly turned shocked and soon her eyes welled with tears. I asked her what happened and she said that she just hear news that her grand aunt in law had passed away.
    “She was fine only three years ago,” she told me. ” She was 96 years old but very healthy and strong. Her daughter in law who is 66 is in fact sickly. Because she is sick she put the old lady in an old people home.”
    In Korea it is customary for children to look after their old parents and the old auntie lived with her son for over  forty years. But when his own wife became too weak to look after the mother in law, they very reluctantly put her in a home. Both the son and his wife and the old lady were miserable about this but there was nothing they could do.

    But things are changing in Korea, Nam Ju told me, hers will be the last generation to look after their old parents. She says that she and her husband will either live on their own or move into an old age home. I told her that the same thing is happening to our country too. With modernisation and Westernisation we will have no place in our children’s lives. I wonder if this is a good thing or bad.
    2 BHK Apartments Pune

    This is a fine example of an old age home in Pune. It is modern and well constructed and many of my friends have already got apartments here. So perhaps it is not such a bad idea after all.

  • Spring Cleaning

    After a weekend spent lying a bed (contrary to what you think I was not lolling around ) I am now finally feeling fit and fine. With the sun shining high in the sky at when it is not yet seven, when the koel is screeching madly in the garden, when my washing machine is humming away in the background, when I can hear the maid swishing away at the dust, it has finally dawned on me that Spring is now long over and I had better clear out all my cupboards before the monsoons set in.

    The days seem to fly faster and faster each year and we are already one week into May! Before I know it I will be wishing this horrible year a good bye and hoping that the next will be better. Cleaning is always very therapeutic and as I shake the dust off clothes and books, I am shaking away the cobwebs in my mind.

    So I’m off now to have clean shelves, well ordered cupboards and a life that I can make sense of.

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