June 16-17. The High and the low.

This weekend was full of excitement to see sivaji... With the help of a frnd i had got tickets to a show in aradhana on sat 630 pm. could take only the two wheeler as the car had not yet been discjarged frm the work shop , the mechanic is frightening me with the bill, i wish i could ask him to stop further work on it and take it away.

it was a long journey frm annanagar to aaradhana. Was so excited that i thot it wld be fuel to fun to have some alcohol but it turned out to be a disappointment, it took all the energy out of me that i had to cancel a trip planned for sunday.

And further i was almost watching the movie in a trance. could not fully appreciate it... jus howling and adding to the hoopla in the theatre. So i am not in a posn to exactly comment abt the movie.

About the thtr, Aaradhana was a very small theatre and further our seats were jus 10 rows away frm the screen. The men's wash room had only 4 urinal pots. so u can imagine the rush in ther...

jus as we came out of the thetre it started raining - fst authentic showers of the sw monsooon in chennai ?!. But it was raining only in the ecr stretch, there was no rain in the city after thiruvanmiyur. i had got thorughly wet in the downpour in ecr and was again dry before i reached home.

i was completely depleted by then and it was 1130 in the n8, i had lost all hopes of making the trip on the next day for which i had to start by 5 am. i had planned to accompany pradeep and sangeetha on their drive to ambur, near vellore, to a temple.

it turned out to be forr good'sake that i didnpt make that trip, for my grand father developed chest pain and had to be rushed to the hospital, since a neighbour who was also a doctor cautioned us that it could be a mild attack but i was confident that it wa not that serious bocs i could see wat was wrong but went with the general perception. we took him to sridevi hospita, opp to rohini thtr in koyambedu.

The hospital had a modest infrastr. It was a horrible sight too see that they had their front compound wall , which overlooked the ph road, brought down as a part of the ph road expansion. As soon as he was taken in a ecg was taken , we all anxiously awaited the doctor to look at it and pronounce his sentence.

A word here abt the doctors' attitude. There is no way we could blame them . we were actually there quite early in the morning which the doctors who served the night shift were towards the end of the shift. So we had to be attended by doctors who had sleep looming over their eyes, or some one who was woken up in the middle of his sleep, it was a very pathetic situation.

I wanted to tell them to wake up, but i had to be careful abt wat i said, afterall we were now at the doctrs mercy! Further the medical community has this tendency to keep wat their doing look like a sanctified practice that we r not supposed to understand. It would help us a lot if the they could explain to us wat actually was going on, we could afterall appreciate quite a bit given our biology background, that way they could actually help the whole process of treatment.

Finally , they decided to tell us that the ecg was normal and it was not anything to worry with the heart. And that they thought this might be due to excessive phlegm in the lungs. And the casue was , later on , resolved down to a 25 years of smoking habit( when he was 25 and 50 ) that had left his lungs shrrunken and with patches that now served to hold the phlegm on.

The rest of the sunday i was ther in the hospital with him. He had to be admitted to treat this so called ' pulmonary infection'. I spent my time reading a bit of FranzKafka's "metamorphosis" .It rained in the evening when i had to go out to buy some medicine, i got completely drenched for the second day in succession.