A long overdue update.

Dear Friends,

I know it has been quite long since an update has been posted. My sincere apologies for not having provided an update earlier, Let me start from where we last updated , when I was Dubai bound…………

March 2010 was the new chapter in my life as I landed back in Dubai, new visa, hunt for a new house, new car, and off course my good old job, good old friends and my office team, Sangeetha’s visit to Dubai.

Months just flew past and so did the year, milestones in this period were, family joined us immediately, both Rishi and Varun started school, new home at Garhoud…., Padma joins Varun at School to state a few.

Work keeps me busy, trips around the region….a visit to Vellore in July, checkup goes well. I return back to Dubai with my niece Pooja who is on a Holiday to Dubai for a month.

Then on, the time just whizzed past and before you know the New Year is on the threshold.

Change of residence, hunt for a new house closer to the office to avoid traffic was the next major task and finally nested to a new place 5 minutes from work (small mercies of going home for lunch was the benefit reaped)

2011 started with the witnessing of fireworks at Burj Khalifa (tallest tower in the world.. currently), followed by my Doctor cousins (Dr. Dhanraj and Dr. Nararyani) from Salem visit us ( some of you all have interacted with them during my Vellore days), had a great time, thanks for great weather and before we know we were all set to go for my next checkup at Vellore and of course my in Law’s Golden Anniversary at Palakkad.

Kids were looking forward to this break as for them it was going back to India for fun at last…

From July 2010 - Jan 2011 other than a couple of hiccups, such as a bout of Flu, cold and cough etc. my American lady was holding my fort strong and has had no major cause of concern. To strengthen my immunity continued my immunizations into its final phase.

On 20th we landed in India to celebrate my in laws golden anniversary on 22nd, 23rd embarked to my journey to my place of rebirth CMC Vellore.

24th was rather hectic, started with providing my blood for the various parametric checks, followed by an appointment with my Neuro Surgeon, gate crashed to Ortho Department to review my plated leg if anything needs to be done and finally in the noon was with the Haemat department.

Counts were really good, the Amercian lady was indeed singing and dancing as my counts are all standing tall.

HB 12.8, WBC 13K, Platelets 3.3 Lacs (Highest achieve so far in my counts), Blood smear report was clear (No Blasts seen). My next schedule would be 6 months from now so July/ August would be my next check.

Mrs. Mammen Chandy (Aunty) was in Vellore so made it a point to meet her this time. Dr. Mammen and Aunty are now in Calcutta, as Dr. Mammen is heading the Tata’s Medical Center in Calcutta which a new specialist hospital that is being constructed there.( http://www.tmckolkata.com/ )

So that sort of summarizes the update for now…. So until next time…bye

Rajesh.