Atopic

Ash had an appointment with Dr. Muralidhar Rajagopalan, a paediatric dermatologist at Apollo hospitals, Chennai yesterday. He told us that the kid's hyperactivity, short stature, and poor eating habits are all likely linked to his atopic dermatitis. He suggested some 8 blood tests, including one on Vitamin D function, to understand the problem better and prescribe how best to cope with his problem. The tests alone came to a whopping Rs.8000. (A still-sleeping Ash was taken early morning today to give 4 vials of blood.)

To think that this doctor had been coming to our company clinic for the past 10 years or more, and I have never bothered to use the free medical service! (There's a saying in my mother tongue: The jasmine in your own garden doesnt have any fragrance) And now I pay Apollo's cut-throat fees becuse the doctor has quit our Welfare Centre and concentrates at Apollo alone. He tells us that Dr. Patrick is not a peadiatric dermatologist. Anyways, I hope this guy can cure Ash's affliction. If he cant, I am planning to try Ayurveda when I go to Kerala next. It might surely have a remedy for karappan and raktadosham.
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p.s. Mommy dear left for Kerala yesterday night. The kids who had been threatening each other with Appacha ninno until recently was trying to coax (the way we coax them to prefer Chandanapally's laidback, scenic, rustic life in place of dreary old Chennai) each other to go with her. Ash was heard telling Mira: There is kokkoko (hen), Bumo (Bruno our lab) there, go go. And when the granny was ready to go both seemed willing to go with her. But only as far as the railway station. When I asked her at the station whether she would go, Mira said: I am afraid of hens.