October 2021

It is about the life I lived in contrast to the festivities in the wind, the smell of flowers, the colorful spectacles all giving up room to accommodate my pain, anguish, tears.

I was diagnosed with a very painful skin infection on 11th October, and then onwards I couldn’t differentiate day from night, the days of the week seemed irrelevant, I was in so much pain. Unable to understand the reason, the why to what may have caused this. I always thought I was taking good care of myself. The numerous doctor visits that were to be followed, along with tormenting sermons from friends and family, and the bumpy rides to and fro from the hospital didn’t make it any easy, and very simply put a full stop to my belief.

But the misery wouldn’t end here, when I was diagnosed with another illness, each worse than the previous one and having an internal competition in my body to be more painful. All of this resulted in an emergency hospitalization, the smell that would haunt me for days , uncountable injections that numbed my hands that I could smile through each prick and pin, wasn’t allowed any food or water for 48 hrs, increased insane levels of enzymes and hormones, double surgeries later I now am back at my home.

This episode could have happened to anyone, I wasn’t doing something seriously wrong but it sure raised a lot of red flags to highlight that we so often do not take care of our bodies. We are spoilt for choices in every sphere of our life and have a want for a rich life, but the richness can truly be enjoyed by a sound mind and a sound body.

I am grateful to every friend, family member, each helper, every nurse, and the doctors for making it seem so effortless and pulling me out of that operation theatre safely out!