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It is so easy to say ‘weather-change, uh?’…

When ever the weatherman reports ‘cold northerly winds’ on the Indian map, there sure is a change in the weather from Summer to Winter via the Monsoon, of course… I am one of the chosen one to have swollen tonsillitis and book an appointment with my Savior- Dr Mundle! While I wait for my turn, I will tell you the saga I go through…

You see..it starts with a scratchy feeling in my ear. I am clucking like a Duck or a Pigeon about to lay eggs..taking care of my etiquette while I am trying to clear my throat. Overnight my nose’s washer is loose and all my hankies and soft napkins, the hot water kettle are working overtime. Specially assigned sweaters, woolies, shawls are pulled out of their hibernation..special because there will be a lot of  vapor rubs and balms! A day goes about sniffing and the cough is not very far to make it’s grand entry…I call it the Show-stopper! And literally so…

I have always been in jobs which had me talk-talk. My voice is hardly heard..if the first part of the sentence is then the last part goes off into a ‘psip..psip..spis..’ I am mistaken to be a ‘gentleman’ over the phone; my Training dates are postponed; I cannot speak much; else I break into a ‘Devdas’ cough!

 The beauty of the whole thing is the diagnosis made. It is a common cold-cough to an Upper Respiratory Tract infection if it is a Northerly cold wave. And a bronchitis if it is a snowing and fog with visibility of 10 meters and the like…

 And then starts the trapeze of medical advices I am given..

.. poke a pepper corn to a pin and roast it and snort the fumes..have cold water bath in winters..gargle with hot salt water..with Disprin..add turmeric to it..add salt to your tea..have hot milk with haldi..add honey..no have plain! Add cinnamon to tea..better to grate it..have with honey..gulp a spoon of honey and a pinch of haldi in it last thing at night..chew plain jeera with sugar candy. Best is to keep a sugar candy in your mouth..(which will threaten to pop out on the nose of the person I am speaking to!) Keep lavang..eat Tulsi leaves..eat ice-creams! And not to miss out mom’s age-old ‘menasu saaru’- sort of soup made from ground pepper and jeera and few other things boiled in milk……..

Advertisements that show a coughing mom up and about after gulping a spoonful of a cough syrup are fun to watch! ‘cause I am done with at least three bottles for a 5-day dosage! Nothing works as a normal 5-day dosage for my ‘Elephant- cough’…

 …The only thing that will work is just ‘ a weather-change’ and I will be back fit as a fiddle!

 Tata.

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