Monthly Archives: July 2012

It is early Monday morning in India, and early Sunday evening in the US.  Alan is travelling home as I type and I have woken to my first day here without him.  Here is a photo of Alan when he left.  … Continue reading →

While having my treatments today I started to think about going back to work. I have been on vacation for a month this coming Friday and I have had relatively few moments that I had to put on my “work” … Continue reading →

We are told the clinic will do our laundry if we want.  Turns out the cleaning ladies do the laundry outside our room in a corner on the roof in bucket and put it on the line to dry.  Upon … Continue reading →

I finished the thyroid treatment and resumed the regular meals, thank goodness! Turns out there are 18 meals, in groups of three with each group given flavor by adding different herbs.  The tastes are sweet, bitter, sour, salt, pungent and astringent.  I … Continue reading →

I went on a fun outing yesterday (Tuesday) to have lunch at the Taj Falaknuma Palace. The palace took nine years to complete and was finally inhabited in 1889 by the then prime minister Nawab Vikar-ul-Umra as a personal residence. … Continue reading →

On Sunday, Dr. Krishna’s older brother and also a doctor of Ayurvedic medicine came to the clinic. Dr. Raju-ji (a term of respect)  After lunch he gave a lecture on a variety of topics including question and answers about the general … Continue reading →

This morning waking I heard a strange animal noise and had a look down in the street.  There was a cow strolling and mooing quite loudly though the street.  There are two cows that live in the gated community and … Continue reading →