CON AIR – 1 “THE PLAN – B”

CON AIR – 1

“THE PLAN – B”

Sometimes things happen spontaneously as we want them to happen and we become very happy. But sometimes they don’t happen as we have plan them to happen, in such cases we either accept it and become sad or we start over again from plan B. So here is one real story about “The Plan B”.

FIRST THE AFFAIR AND THEN THE MARRIAGE – THE GIRL’S STORY

Lithe girl with the dusky complexion and attractive features was the bond girl of her hometown. Everyone knew her she was quiet daring and with big dreams to settle in abroad. All she talked about was that she is definitely going to settle in Canada. But at the same she had a clandestine affair with a married man. They used to hang around surreptitiously and their family was unaware of it. It was only one trust worthy friend she had who used to arrange her meetings with that guy.

The affair prolonged for two years, but now the big problem was that her family have started looking for a groom. She curtly asked her boyfriend to divorce his wife and to get married to her. The guy, who said, that he deeply loved her, was ready to divorce his wife, but feared his girlfriend sky high dreams and ambitions. He feared that he won’t be able to fulfill them and then she would leave him and with a broken marriage followed by a broken heart, he won’t be able to live.

The girl started to pressurize the guy, as her family had zeroed over one boy to be her prospectus groom. The boy that family choose was though five years elder to the girl and had very healthy and matured looks as compared to the girl, but his family was very well settled, moreover the boy was planning to wind off his business here and was planning to shift his base to Canada, where already his elder brother lived with his family. Therefore the girl family thought him to be the perfect boy for the girl.

When girl came to know about that the guy was trying for Canadian citizenship, her mind and heart become unsettled. First time she started think with her mind and locked her heart in the closet. God was giving her a Plan – B to live in which fulfilled all her dreams. She gave her boy the ultimatum to divorce his wife, but since she couldn’t find anything positive she said yes to the guy her family choose and they got married. Everyone was shocked when they saw the groom; the girl looked much prettier and lovely. But since it was girl’s choice, no one said anything.

THE STORY OF THE BOY, WHICH GIRL’S FAMILY CHOOSED.

The guy was happy that he got a pretty wife. Actually he bearded a secret crush over the girl whom he met through a common friend one year back. The girl forgot about him but since that day co-indecently meeting with her, not a day have passed that he haven’t thought about her. It was his wish comes true.

He had given up the hope to get her but praise the lord, he was given a Plan-B by him to live his dream with his dream girl.

But, it so happened that 6 months after marriage, their family didn’t shift to Canada, on contrary, the boy’s brother was coming back permanently to India because he suffered some losses in Canada and to live there further could be very expensive on his pocket.

The girl was heartbroken and went into shock for a while, but on this pretext she couldn’t leave her husband. She accepted it as her destiny and accepted that this is the life that she would live. And maybe, God become generous on her and give her an opportunity to go to Canada. For time being her Plan-B failed.

THE STORY OF THE GUY, WHO WAS ONCE HER BOYFRIEND

Six months back, he was under so much pressure to leave his wife, the woman who came from a very strong financial family with lot of dowry. Since he was so busy to take care of his affair and his business was ignored so much, still he could afford the luxurious life style only because of his wife. He couldn’t let loose her golden goose, but he was being threatened by the girl that if he didn’t do anything, she would let their secret out and his wife, then would leave him willfully.

He lost his night sleep. One fine afternoon he was sitting and thinking about his situation, that his very old friend payed him a surprise visit. They talked for a while and suddenly his friend told him that his family was looking for a bride for him and how he bear a deep crush over the girl that once he met through him.

Suddenly the boy eyes sparkled, there was a Plan-B, sitting right next to him, to get rid off the girl who had so badly interrupted his, once smooth running life.

The boy talked to his friend and confirmed weather he was talking about the same girl, he was having affair with. And once, when he was sure, he assured his friend that he could get the girl he wanted, all he need to do is, as he says. He told his friend that they should approach the girl family with the prospectus that the whole family would shift to Canada shortly.

 But when his friend told him that his brother was also planning to return to India, he advice him to keep it under cover and just behave like that the whole family would definitely move to Canada in near future, he told his friend that this was the only way to get the girl of his dream. His friend was so much smitten by the beauty of the girl that the near thought of that he could get that girl, made him jump into this lie game.

And as the guy expected, the girl said ‘yes’ to his friend and got married to him and giving him his independence and security of his wife’s finances. The guy is back into the date market. He is very active on “On-Line Dating” sites. After all his Plan-B worked.

THREE IS A CROWD!

PHRENOLOGY OF “CON- MAN”

-         Eyes are big or sometimes small but the outer commissar is directed little upward.

-         Look for a big black mole on their face [Mostly present, but not as a Rule]

MORAL

There is nothing right or wrong, winning the only objective in this con game.

THE “RAPTA” [TIGHT SLAP]

                             THE “RAPTA” [TIGHT SLAP]

From childhood we are taught that we should be respectful to our elders, we shouldn’t use high connotation while talking to elders and definitely do as they say as they possess the grey hair wisdom. If we don’t follow those golden rules we will end up being thwarted, mortified as a failure.

The ACCIDENT

There was an accident at 9 am at the Pitampura crossing last night. A car [swift] was turning right that suddenly a bike [some pizza delivery bike] banged into the side door leading to a huge dent in the car. The car and the bike clogged. The rider gave the excuse that his brakes got stuck; hence he couldn’t halt the acceleration of the bike.

As usual, people collected near, expecting to see a fight. The car driver called his family and the bike rider called his boss. The police was also informed.

Fifteen minutes later, everyone came in, from cops, accuse and the plaintiff. A quality crowd assembled finding the cynosure of the incident. As the matter was being inspected, a man, may be in his early fifties.But with a fine lithe approached the scene and asked the accuse party to settle the matter by apologizing. He persuades them politely and gave a small push to one of them. It was not a violent one, just a slight thrush to pry him to apologize. The gentlemen wanted the matter to wind up fast as it was bringing lot of undue attention and the surrounding roads were becoming jam-packed with traffic.

But the friend of the accuse (who was pushed by the man) felt offended and rudely asked the gentleman to mind his own business and even went to an extent of abusing him and condemning him for pushing him aggressively. The man lost his patience and as soon as the friend of accuse was through his brute words, the man slapped him tight on his face. The “Rapta” with a banging sound, coming straight landing on his cheeks.

The accuse friend was taken aback; he did not expect this coming from the elderly man. Full in rage, he came to retort him with his words and dealings.

Then the most unexpected happened. The old man turned out to be a boxer himself. He took off his T-shirt and threw it on the ground.

Be holding their breath and with a synchronous awe the crowd looked at the six packed abs and strong protruding chest which were ambush by the white T-shirt.

Few hand and feet movement, and in fraction of seconds the accused friend was on his knees. The cops stand there as they were spectator. And the crowd had free fund trailer to one of the action packed Bollywood Flick.

Now, the scene have changed, new victim and accuse have debuted. The accused friend had no power left to rebuke back. The old man stayed for a while staring at him expecting may be something is more left in him. But in deficiency of any reaction, he eased his stiffed body and walked away, leaving everyone in utter disbelief.

After couple of minutes, accused friend was helped by two people to stand on his feet. He stood, wiped out the strains of blood oozing out of his bruises and with all the strength left in him said loudly “if he wasn’t an old man, I would have hit him back. Just left him because of his age and…..”

But before he could complete, his strength drenched out and he fainted only to wake up hours later in the hospital. He survived, but the bruises on his ego would take hell-more time to heal.

MORAL

“If you can’t control your tongue, you can’t prevent breaking of your tang [Punjabi word for leg]

 {PUN INTENDED}

THE WEIRD INTIMACY

THE WEIRD INTIMACY

Sharing is a good habit. From school days this habit is inculcated in young mind, when teachers ask us to share. Our lunch, our notebooks, our geometry boxes, etc, etc. As we grow up, we share our domentry room, share a bathroom, share MC Donald’s and Pizza hut bills, even cell phone recharges and sometimes unknowingly a boyfriend / girlfriend. This is very common.

But can you think of any weirdest thing that you have ever shared. Just give yourself few seconds to think about it, before reading this blog “The weird Intimacy”.

THE GOOD, NOT SO GOOD AND THE LETHAL STRATEGY.

“To be cautious is good habit, to be extra –extra cautious is not so good, but still fair enough but to be psychopathically extremely cautious is very lethal” said the lady sitting next to me.

She has a story about a medical procedure that her husband went through last year for the treatment of his non- healing, corroding and painful apthous of month.

Well, when we read and cram this medical procedure from medical books and hear it from our seniors, it look kind of fine, but when we hear it from patient’s mouth, it seems really weird. Well, here the story that she told me.

It so happened last year. That her husband had stomach bug, because of which he had excessive vomiting and stomach ache. People around him were so surprised to see him suffering from gastro enteritis as he was consider to be a person who put his health in front of all the things and used to eat with caution.

He went to the famous and expensive gastroenterologist of a well known hospital for his treatment. He was prescribed medicines accordingly which he took religiously. After five days he was remarkably improved. On sixth day he went for a follow-up. Doctor reduced the dosage along with it changed it to lighter salt.

Again he took the medicines for next five days. Though he was relieved, but the complaint persisted. The relief in these five days were less as compared to the prior five days. He again went to the doctor, and told him his mind. Since, the symptoms were relieving, doctor again reduced the dosage and told him that now he only has to take the medicine for five more days and his treatment would be over.

He again followed instruction for five more days. Though he was relieved, his vomiting was gone, his indigestion was not troubling him anymore or there was any tenderness in the stomach, but still, some how he was not convinced that he was completely cured of his ailment. Now, since the doctor has asked him not to come again because according to him, he was cured, he was in a complete fix. He had the fear in the mind that he would have reversal of symptoms as soon as the dose of the medicine would be terminated.

He have been cautions immediately taking the medicine, he have been extra cautions for continuing the treatment for 15 days for common stomach bug, but he have developed the phobia of disease and here, he committed a blunder, without doctor’s consent, he took the strong antibiotics, which were prescribed at initiation of treatment which doctor had stop after the course of 5 days. He took those medicines for a month. And he felt good.

After a month, he stopped those meds, thinking himself to be cured. One week after he stopped medicines he started to suffer from hell of symptoms, each and every symptom that is given in books under the topic of Gastro intestinal Disease.

He had alternating constipation and diarrhoea, he had severe indigestion that as soon as the food entered the alimentary canal, it was reverted back to its starting point. The man began to lose weight and his buccal [mucosa membranous covering inside the mouth] were full of apthous.

Day after day he shunted doctors, but no one could give him relief. Every test that could have been done to investigate his problems was performed twice or thrice on him, still the “Status Quo” was maintained. It was only after three months of his suffering, one doctor in south India could diagnose him that all his complaints are traced back to his heavy and overdose of antibiotics which killed the entire healthy bacterial flora in his intestines.

The only way to treat him was to re-grow back the healthy bacteria colonies and the procedure to do it is called “FECAL TRANSPLANT THERAPY”

FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION

It is a process of restoration of colonic flora by introducing healthy bacterial flora through infusion of stool obtained from healthy human donor. This is a treatment recommended to patient suffering from clostridium difficile infection (CDI) which is linked with excessive and empiric use of antibiotics. Generally, the healthy donor is the one who shares same living and eating habit as the patient, therefore they are mainly family members.

HUSBAND-WIFE BONDING

In the above case, it was the wife who donated her stool to her husband, so that he could recover from his own created hell. Well, it took him two more months to get completely recovered after sharing his wife’s stool.

Now, you know, at what extent the habit of sharing is possible between the intimate relationships.

PHRENOLOGY OF “EXCESSIVE CAUTIOUSNESS”

Very long thin nose which is pinched at its trip.

MORAL

“Sharing is a virtue, so you should share whatever you can share” (Pun Intended).

“WHAT DID I MISS?”

                         “WHAT DID I MISS?”

Today’s life, is the busy one, really very very busy life and we all complaint (including me) that we don’t have time for petty things, like for couple of seconds standing and appreciating the prism of colours forming through the small drops of rain or enjoying shapes and patterns of clouds in sea blue sky or staring at stars and wondering about CEREUS (the brightest star of all) in pitch dark night, only because we don’t have time. Do we realize that we are missing all these things?

TREAT MY HAIRFALL

Couple of months back, I had a patient who wanted me to treat his massive hair loss. He was just 26 years old and the bald patches were quite evident on his head. After ruling out that it is not male heredity pattern baldness, as his uncles and brothers have good bushes over their head, I took the case.

It was revealed that last year he had typhoid which got bad and he was treated with massive dose of allopathic medicines along with couple of shots of injections. And since then he is having a worse hair fall of his life. He was very worrisome patient, always frowning about such a massive hair fall in such young age. I don’t say, his worries were baseless, but it seemed as if it was deeply connected to his psyche as he had all negative thinking about everything going around in his life. He felt so forlorn.

One day, I asked him, why is he is always so anxious. And then he revealed his story. They are two brothers, elder one being only two years elder to him. When he was sixteen years old, his father died and since he was the sole earning member of the family the responsibility felt on the two young boys.

And since the age of sixteen, along with his studies, he worked hard with his brother and in the span of 10 years; they were able to establish a good business of wholesale and manufacturer of the ladies sandals. They are running a factory, though it is on rent he tells me that they have worked really very hard and haven’t thought about rest in past 10 years. And since he has seen that hard time, he fears that time can return again. He says it’s always in back of his mind.

Very touching was his story I prescribed accordingly and gave him few multiple vitamins Biotin and folic acid for his early recovery. Two weeks later, he came to me with same complaint. I again changed the prescription and the complaint still persisted after one month of treatment well, it never happens.

I again retook the case. One thing that troubled me that, he was suffering from intense weakness even after taking the multivitamins pills. I asked him to run few blood tests. I was expecting a low haemoglobin, hence thought of treating him first for Anaemia.

TOTALLY UNEXPECTED  1

When I saw his blood profile, I asked him to run it again, this time from other laboratory. He asked me what he was suffering from. But, I asked him to wait patiently for the next report.  The other report was the twin to the first. There was massive increase in his total leucocytes count and he had presence of immature cells like star cells in his blood profile which are always absent until proved otherwise.

My diagnosis, he had cancer and I referred him for a bone narrow biopsy. He was shocked and so was I; he was just 26 and had no bad habits have not even enjoyed his life. To settle and to get married was totally out of question for him now.

TOTALLY UNEXPECTED 2

I think about that boy. What would have happened to him? Since, I have referred him; there were no further contact until one day, from the blue moon he appeared at the door steps of my clinic. He was totally a change man.

 For a surprise, he hadn’t converted himself into the attire of dying man in the abyss of depression, on contrary, was really a charming person, full of life. I haven’t seen such beautiful colours of his persona, in my short association with him.

The first thing that striked my mind was that, the reports that he showed me, must have proved wrong. But this was not the scenario. He showed me reports of biopsy in which it was clearly diagnosed; he was suffering from “CHRONIC LYMPHOD LEUKEMIA” a fancy term for blood cancer.

I looked at the report and looked at his face. I was baffled and it didn’t end there. The guys who haven’t missed work for one single day since past ten years was not going to his work for past one month. All he did was to meet his treating doctors, took his meds and hangout with his friends.   

 He was not forlorn but enjoying life to its fullest. I haven’t ever seen him so zealous and positive since I ever met him. Cancer changed him and he is not at all abnoxiously worrying about the future though he has an incurable disease.

He said that he was just there to show me his reports and without asking me anything about prognosis, he just chuckled his way out. The only last thing he said and that often ring in my ear is “Now, I have time for everything”.

LESSON LEARNERD

That day, I was so much shaken to my core that I went back home and went straight to my terrace and spent at least thirty minutes with the stunning bright stars of dark September night. I also spotted Cereus {the brightest star in the night} and since that day, I say not very regularly, but quite often catch Cereus.

I also occasionally see different shape of white cloud in the blue sky while driving. It seems very beautiful and serenade. It is only in our hand to take out time for petty things in life or one day we would be left with No life to see those beautiful things that God made for us.

PHRENOLOGY OF WORRISOME PEOPLE

Marked sign is the outer commissars of the lips which points downward. They are never happy people and always fret about future.

MORAL

LIFE IS TO LIVE, AS MUCH IT MAYBE.

SO ENJOY IT.

HAPPY DIWALI