It’s May 2020. We are all in the dilemma of “May b this Covid lockdown will be lifted next week or the week after. We don’t see things are they are, instead we see things are we are. Your Happiness/sadness all depends upon your Perspective.

Covid- A reminder of

1. God has kept some things in his hand, actually all the things and he has grounded all the humans on planet Earth.

2. Life is so unpredictable. Live before your time runs out. Express yourself honestly (whether it’s love or hatred) and then let it go. Life is too short to waste time on silly things.

3. All our plannings & plottings of the future can go in bin in the blink of an eye.

4. At Least, now some people get the concept of infecting others by just a sneeze.

5. People who are highly social just realised that they have family too -at home & outer world/society (which they were giving more priority to before covid) is just a mere illusion or their coping mechanism to the adversities.

6. People have started praying more as they think they might get infected & die soon. lol..

7. Health workers are not just soldiers at the frontline in a war, they are real life angels. Coz soldiers die alone in war if they get shot but Health workers are taking their family along (by infecting their own family unintentionally) or few are staying away from their family for humanity.

8.People became more patient by living at home and by not being able to go out.

9. Video calls, Nature & passions became mandatory to keep us sane.

10. Old generation learnt technology like zoom & collective WhatsApp calls.

11. Birthdays/ Anniversaries can be celebrated by just family members at home and that could be fun too.

12. Cooking can be relaxing but not in quarantine when everyone thinks of “ what’s in the lunch” while eating breakfast in morning. Women are fed up with husband/family demands of cooking new dishes everyday.

13. Space is highly important in any relationship. You Cannot live 24*7 even – with your own family/partner.

14. People who can’t live without gym turned their places into gym. Improvised versions.

15. People finding strange stress busters in this quarantine time. Some are doing stuff that they thought they would never do. Some realised that they were just trying to ACT normal while the society was “on the go”. Some started to look at life all together with different perspective. Some are discovering themselves. Some are exploring their partners/family.Some want this to end soon and some don’t want this to end EVER.

16. Human beings are highly social animals. It’s not social distancing that’s effecting them , instead it’s the physical distancing thats bringing insanity. Humans crave for physical touch – especially hugs to feel alive. Oldies ( who are living alone) are scared to hug their own kids that live separately when they come to drop weekly groceries.

17.”No Touch Policy” of the schools is now being followed by everyone in the world. When I entered the teaching culture here in UK ( after teaching in India ), I used to wonder how an isolation can be a punishment for students . Coming from a country where telling off students – was done via completely different approach. I got it now that how isolating a human being can be a punishment too .. lol ..

18. Earth has the impeccable tendency to reset itself every few decades by sending some bird/human flu/diseases.

19. Most frustrated/ Depressed are kids, pets and those who lives alone.

20. Humans have the tendency to adapt in any situation with different coping mechanism. Some are trying their hand on different art forms to keep themselves sane. Cooking, exercises & drawing became as mandatory as sky diving / scuba diving was back then .. lol

21. Staying in bath robe whole day won’t kill you . lol. Work from Home is no fun anymore. People realised how important were those lunch breaks and meeting those mourning colleagues at work everyday. lol..

22. The saddest part of covid is people don’t get to see their own parents/partners during their cremation.

23. Some still don’t understand the concept that they can get infected too & might die. Superstitions barged in as usual .

24. Random acts of kindness by few people restored the faith in humanity.

25. Society can go mad very easily over ANYTHING- they collected life-long supply of toilet Papers and food ( which is now being rotten in their garages).

Last but not the least- This too shall pass.We are stronger than we think. Let’s embrace the uncertainty in our lives and go with the flow. Let’s start with a different perspective. Every stage of life demands a new you. Let go of the things that nature drifted us apart from and welcome the new changes that universe is trying to bring in our lives. Cuddle the new transformations.

Stay Happy and Never Ever Give up.

LOVE YOU

Shaudane

I was a complete sports person as a teenager. Sometimes I think, Just to skip the morning assembly in the school, I participated in almost every sport in the school. Lol !! I was a very lean kid. Friends used to annoy me all the time by teasing “Don’t go out on a windy day, you might just flew with turbulence to another city”. As  a kid I never used to sit at one place for long, I was always on the run. All the relatives/family used to say “ The day she sits at one place for long will be D-Day.

I was very keen to participate & learn new sports. I was all over the place in all the sports teams. I participated in almost every sport from volleyball, handball, hockey, basketball, athletics- short put, long jump. But my main sport was “Volleyball”. Being tall gave me an advantage to become the front right side hitter. Oh! I loved playing volleyball. I would go home from school and change into sport clothes and come back to school in the evenings /weekends to practice. All I can say is I loved to run.

I am a president Scout (Girl Guides) in India. Scouts programmes basically highlight on the personality development, leadership and team building training. Primary focus of the Scout program is to make students disciplined and courageous. I attended 6 Scout camps Up-in-the- Hills in North India, where we used to walk miles and miles up up the hills, live in camping tents, cook our own food, learning new rope tying techniques around ourselves to climb up hill and carry water from another hill top over our head to our Base camp, do the camp fires in the evening and perform singing/ dancing in the camp zonal meet ups in the events and much more. Basically, I performed all the duties of a Scout.

When I got stuck with lightning in 2007, I couldn’t raise my arms above my shoulders for a long period of time. Everything felt heavy from lifting a teacup to doing my hair plaits. The Very first thing that I was devastated to give up was “. The love for my suits with heavy (long extra cloth) salwar’s – (Indian dress)” followed by giving up “Driving my motorbike “.

That was an absolute heart- break as I just loved to ride my motorbike. Over a year, with the support of family & docs, I got my strength back but not like before. Over the Years, there are quite a few things which I had to “give up” but I am grateful that God Gave me good alternatives and even better versions of those things.

If anything, I learnt from my journey is not “give up” on yourself, even if the doctors/everyone else around you do. Learn to embrace your vulnerability and the uncertainty in life. Don’t make long term plans. Live one day at a time. Life is full of surprises and miracles.

Everything single thing that happens in your life has happened for good. I have never let this “lightning” to stop me from doing what i want to do in my life In fact, if I didn’t got stuck with this lightning, I wouldn’t have done those amazing things which i did and shall keep on doing.

We don’t get everything we want in life. Isn’t that a good thing coz we get what God wants- which is much bigger and better. If something happens according to our own wish, its good but if it doesn’t, then it’s even better.

ONLY THING YOU WON’T GET BACK IS YOUR TIME. You are never going to live the same moment again in your life.

Life is tough and so are we.

Stay humble and count your blessings.

I was listening to the ted talks by Brene brown – A social worker and writer who summed vulnerability in 3 components- Courage, Compassion and Connection. Well, My version of 3 Components are as below:

Courage – this word came from Latin origin – cour- heart .. it means do something with whole heart . Basically, we all have been through phases in our lives where we feel we are imperfect in any way. May be we think we are not good looking , we are not super intelligent, we are not healthy as others as, we are not wealthy as others are. The courage to accept your own reality is what beautifies you and your vunerability. The courage to accept ourselves as we are is the very first step towards accepting others and their realities. BTW, Just to remind yourself, NOBODY in this world is perfect. We all have our imperfections and we all are unique in our own ways.

Compassion- We can only be compassionate to others if we are compassionate to ourselves first . To treat others with kindness, we need to first treat ourselves with kindness. We can never pour from an empty bottle . Only if you are happy with your own self , then only you can make any other person happy around you. It’s important to make people happy but first start with yourself. A reminder- YOU and Only you are responsible for your own happiness. Compassion brings gratitute.

Connection- We connect with others as a result of authenticity. They were Willing to let go of who they thought they should be, in order to be who they areor want to be. Biggest challenge for a connection to establish is the frequency. There is a term in physics called “Quantum Entanglement” which states that things like elcetrons and photons can get entangles with each other even at a great distance, in a way that physicts donot understand.Somehow what happens to one particle may impact the way the other particle behave, even if those particles are nowhere near each other.The same way people get entangled with each others. ,even if they are nowhere near each other.

Vulnerability- we need to fully embrace vulnerability to let all these three happen. What makes us vulnerable also makes us beautiful .vulnerability is necessary for a connection . The courage to reveal your vunerability and the willingness to take a first step or jump into your passion or goal, where there is no guarantee whether it will happen or not .. willingness to live each day when you don’t know whether tomorrow you will be spending night at hospital or home , the willingness to not give up, the uncertainty makes you actually live & enjoy life., when you don’t know whether you will be able to see the other person again in life or not as life is uncertain for anyone these days , willing to try a new job/friendship/ relationship/adventure which you don’t know will work out or not. Keep that resilience going.Have a strong willingness along with some silliness .

NEVER EVER GIVE UP

Hasdey Wasdey Raho

Recently, a former engineering student of mine asked me ‘did you have this illness while you were teaching us?’. I replied ‘yes, it didn’t happen overnight’. I somehow managed to work and live life as normally as I could with this rarity.

When I was finishing my Masters in 2007, I met a lifelong ‘boyfriend’ of mine, as my friends like to call it. Polymyositis is a chronic condition that will never leave me. Rare diseases take an average of three to four years to be diagnosed, however in my case it took almost eight years.

I was very flexible and supple as a child. I was capable of bending my body very easily and could do highly difficult yoga poses, such as holding hands in the front and taking them over the head and to the back without breaking the hand bond.

I have loved sports since I was a child and I am passionate about dancing. One sunny afternoon in the summer holidays I was dancing in the lobby and got so carried away that I starting doing gymnastics and went into the splits. I heard a ‘crunch’ and realized my knee had come out. I felt pain like never before. My mum and dad rushed towards me after hearing my scream and dad pressed my kneecap back into place. I was able to stand and walk like nothing had happened. Friends and relatives came over in the evening to check on me and I was the one serving them tea and biscuits!

The next day, dad took me to an orthopedic doctor who said  I was fine and was just very flexible. I was told the joints in my body were very loose and my muscle tissues were exceedingly resilient which made my body highly flexible. He also told me to drink more milk and I would be fine! Now I think that instead of ignoring these symptoms, if we would have had some blood works done back then, it would have helped us in detecting this rarity more quickly than my body giving up gradually. We had no clue why it happened and what it was. Early diagnosis helps in so many ways.

WHAT IS POLYMYOSITIS?

Polymyositis is one of the inflammatory myopathies – a group of muscle diseases that involves inflammation of the muscles or associated tissues, such as the blood vessels that supply the muscles. A myopathy is a muscle disease and inflammation is response to cell damage. Polymyositis brings along with it: muscle pain and stiffness, muscle weakness, joint pain and stiffness, problems with swallowing and irregular heart rhythms if the heart muscle becomes inflamed. One autoimmune disease usually brings one or two of its friends along with it.

In 2007, I was told I only had only six months to a year to live, as they say the risk of cancer is the highest within the first year of diagnosis. My perspective towards everything changed that day. Until that day, all I did was study. From then on, not only did my perspective towards life change, but I had to completely change my lifestyle. Simple things like tying my hair and wearing cotton clothes and normal shoes would feel super heavy on my body.

I am truly blessed to have had a bunch of angels around me since 2007 providing a helpful network of support, including mentors, friends, family and colleagues. I am grateful to each and every one of you for being part of my roller coaster life.

I believe God gives tough roles to his best Actors. Living all alone in England and struggling each day, from managing my symptoms through chemotherapy to the unexpected flare ups and surgeries, makes me discover my new thresholds. Even if you are living with family, every single one of us has to fight our own battle on our own only because in this end you have to be your own hero! This Buddhist quote gives me great comfort: ‘No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We must walk the path.’

coz at the end , Darling ! You have to be your own hero. Live, love, laugh and never give up.

They say It’s better to do things and  regret it later than ‘doing Nothing atall’. Recently, I got inclined towards this thought more after living whole life on the concept of ‘ being extra careful in all my decisions’. You did , what you think was “the best you can do” in that situation. Not everybody is good at handling crisis . We presume things by our  perceptions & personal experiences and we react accordingly to those situations. Due to our own insecurities, often we presume that this will surely happen when a particular situation will come, whilst that’s just a delusional thought which we have already fed to our brain .  So , when the situation arises, instead of looking at it’s facts with a straight head , we see the responses of people in a way ( which we already presumed in our head & fed our brain with). Sometimes your advisors/friends/family help maintaining that illusion to a certain extent . So even if those people respond in a certain way due to their own logical/personal reasons but you see those responses from your own perspective only .

For example – a child is playing with a toy and you know that your child breaks every toy he’s played with – in a weeks time . So , next time when you see the new toy broken , a father assume that he broke it while in reality that toy is being  mistakenly shattered by his wife or older kid. We follow patterns on how people behave. Assumptions and perceptions – these two factors are most viable in every personal & professional relationships.

So when someone do a thing /behave in certain way, we assume and act accordingly with our perceptions. I recently met a stranger on SM who assumed that I am some sort of a fake ID person ( I mean not the real me- like some guy stalking her on SM by creating a fake girl ID) . She assumed that only coz of her past experiences. We always tend to assume firstly, based on our experiences. We humans change our choices , looks , behaviour, nature according to time & situations .

 Every situation brings us one big lesson. Learn from your mistakes and move on . More important is -Don’t repeat those mistakes . God has bigger plans for you . Let his plans work rather than mourning on our silly tiny ” so called plans  which didn’t happen” . Don’t let a bad experience makes you believe that every other experience  is bad . More importantly forgive yourself and others.  Humans make mistakes. We all do. Had there been another person in our situation, he would have made same mistake ( well slightly less or even bigger) as I said we have our own thresholds and ways to handle situations .

If you can rectify your mistake , do it & if not , forgive yourself/others and move on . Don’t let rage & revenge feed  your mental stability. If you are always making plans to hurt someone , you are in more pain constantly than the other person. The one who hurts you , are actually in more pain than you. Wish them peace . You deserve peace which can only be achieved by “letting go”. Don’t waste time in criticising yourself or others .They are doing what they think is best for them in this present moment and so are you.

Live and let live . You are unique   & Special. You have a set task here on earth . That’s why you are here . When your role is finished , you will be long gone. So , don’t waste your time in being negative just coz you met another negative person or had a negative experience.

Be so positive that negative people feel uncomfortable with you. Find happiness within yourself rather than attaching it to things & people. Find goodness in every little thing . Be grateful to be alive and enjoy every breath you have yet to take. Take one day at a time  . Who knows what’s going to happen next moment/next week/ next month / next year. Believe me, Life is full of surprises & shocks .Keep smiling and rising . Love you all. Hasdey wasdey raho. 

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Translate – All in this world are unhappy ( except those who have established a life in the beyond ) -a saying of Guru Nanak Dev G – Founder of Sikh Religion.

Again writing from hospital .. lol ..!! I guess hospitals gives me drive to write while sitting in waiting areas for different scans & wards 😜

Everyone feels their problems are the BIGGEST amongst all. All you hear every time -Oh man!! Just try to walk in my shoes for a day . You won’t even last for a minute there. Everyone feels they got abundance of worries, problems, troubles & their life is mess.Most of the people are walking with empty hearts. Most People are broken from inside whilst looking complete from outside. They are just happy on outside . They are looking for happiness. No one is satisfied & content ( & believe me they got EVERYTHING…Lol..!! ) Still they find something is missing in their life. We all have a happy story to share & a wound to hide, a story to tell, a tragedy to share.. our sad story.

All these years in & out of hospitals , I have listened to people’s stories .. of their struggles .Trust me ours( those who are reading this blog with their own eyes and typing with their own fingers ) are nothing in front of them .

A heartily beautiful girlfriend / fellow patient of mine who has no fingers on one hand wishes that one day she could type as fast as a normal person would .All she want is to type with her fingers .

A former student of mine ( as I worked with SEN – Special Education Needs students in Schools in London ) who is partially blind just wishes to see our beautiful world (at it’s full potential) . Maturity at that student life age comes only with learning to adapt & accept the beautiful reality of life that you are just differently abled person than others . People with learning disabilities & all sort of differently abled students are much more mature and compassionate about life than us.

A fellow patient ( 45 +age ) on electric wheelchair sees world more brighter than us normal people.He got no arms below elbows and no legs below thighs , still he got more happiness & love than us all combined together. We Bragg , nag about tinniest little things in life , which don’t even matter at all in real life. All nurses says ” when he used to come to have regular monthly blood plasma transfusions , he was as bright & happy as he is now” . Now he’s been discharged from monthly blood transfusions, still he comes over to hospital ward once/ twice a month to just say hi to nurses & fellow patients . I met him & trust me I have not seen a happier person than him in my life. The spark in his eyes & that broadened infectious smile on his face – one can never forget . Then I got to know he lives alone and maintain a perfect lifestyle on his own. He said same thing as I heard from fellow differently abled people – that – he don’t like to be pitted or someone feeling sorry for him. I do try to do my own things on my own. No bad weather, no pain in my body ( trust me chronic pain is hell lot worse ), no negative emotions ,no other human being , nothing in this world can stop me from getting out of bed, getting myself superbly ready and going out to enjoy the little things in life like buying my own bread, going to parks, malls, having nice coffee around while reading a book 📚

We ,fully abled people think – shit..!! I didn’t get good grades/ scores, I am being bullied, I am not well ( normal sickness which every human goes through ) , I didn’t succeed in life, my friends doing great , I didn’t get married, I don’t have enough money , I got these responsibilities, I don’t have kids, my kids don’t study , my neighbours are more rich , my dog isn’t behaving as training, my car isn’t big, my life’s trash, my career Isn’t going to next level & all sorts of silly little things . Well man !! Look at the ones who don’t even have a fully developed brain to even think that- what he got or not in life. So I was just sitting in hospital waiting area today. Suddenly we hear shouting and we all looked . There was a guy (20+ yrs) came on electric wheelchair with his parents ( I guess) . He had no sense of being where he was and why he was there . He looked normal but after a repetitive period of time , he just shout – haaaaae .. After sometime , a nurse came ( as she realised other patients being disturbed by the noise ) & asked his parents ” would you like to go to another room to wait ? ” Parents said yeah and they moved from there to another waiting Room. So, I just meant to say , we all are blessed to even rectify & know that what we need and what not .. what makes us happy and what not .. we are blessed to have BRAIN to THINK.. which is quite a huge thing to have .🙏🏼

We are blessed to have people around us who love us .. to have eyes to see world to full potential.. to have ears to listen to music / path .. & that we can convey our message to others by speaking or we are blessed to do path/ prayers . We are blessed that we can THINK . We should be grateful to God to have given us such huge priceless privileges that not everyone has. We should be happy with what we have . Most of us have what others want. As I always say, I am happy with what I have and doing superbly great with the gifts provided to me by God and will continue to live happy. No disease, no man, no thing can decide whether or not I should be happy . No one is in charge of my happiness. No one has the power to make me feel low or unhappy . It’s me who can make me feel happy or unhappy. Mostly it’s our thoughts – we can be happy in worst situations and sad in most happiest moments . All is in the head 🧠. They way you think , the way you become .

Stay happy . Once you start being happy in all situations , you will see difference in your choices & human nature. Don’t give right to ANYONE to dictate your happiness. You just need YOURSELF to be happy . Don’t wait up for things & people to make you happy. Don’t think that if I get this thing ( house, car, watch .. any materialistic thing) or if I am with that person , then only I can be happy . You don’t need anyone or anything to make you feel complete or happy. Being alone DOES-NOT mean that you are not happy . Happiness is a journey . Enjoy it . Embrace it & as I always say.. Girl ! You got 100 marks only in One life ( read my last blog for reference 😘)

Stay 😆.. Stay content 🤟🏽

Hasdey wasdey Raho 😍💕👍🏼

Teri kismat da likhya tere toh koi le nahi sakda, je usdi mehar hove te tenu oh vi mil jaaye jo tera ho nahi sakda.
Translation: No one can ever take your destiny from you. If you have faith in his power and you have his blessings with you, then you can even get what you thought you’ll never have.

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Friend & family circle

Has anyone ever thought about this concept ever that WHY we only love people we know or meet ? I guess coz we are close to them. We know them or we like them or we are born in that family . But then WHY we only compete with the people who are in our friend , family or relative circle? Have we ever competed with Sundar pichai or Mark Zuckerburg ? Why we ONLY compete with neighbors, friends, relatives, colleagues? Compete in the sense that “ oh that friend or relative got good marks in school, good ranks in sports ( these days Taekwondo, Judo,Chess and what not.. oh !! Certainly , My good old days were way much better ), got good house, got good job , then it moves on to next levels.. children, their study , their job, son in law , daughter in law, their jobs, their houses and the list is endless.. We only get jealous of people we know of in our circle .

Have we ever got jealous of some Girl/Guy living in Greece or Thailand ?

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The Big Question is-Why we even get jealous?

The Most amusing thing I find is jealously of jewellery in women and cars/watches in men ..I mean these two are definitely at the Top of the list of jealous things. Lol !! Why we blame people we know or are close to. Have we ever blamed prime minister of Nigeria/ Serbia or any other country PM rather than our own PM for anything ? We humans only compete, love,hate,Challenge,Hurt,betray, blame people only in our circle .

After living in this diverse city for so many years, another fact what I came across is we never gets jealous/ insecure from any other race rather than ours. First in jealousy/ insecurity lists – tops- our own community fellow, then own country fellow and then some other races. Like in the priority jealous list for a Punjabi ( purely an example )will be first another Punjabi, then another Indian and then comes brits or any other foreign . Funny na..!!

Not only us, we bring our kids into same game circle unintentionally. Same game of hatred, competition, blame & jealous. Kids follow their adults Always.. whatever their parents do , they tend to do same and whatever their parents think, subconsciously kids adapt same feeling/ Thinking . If someone parents keep talking about “ oh that Friend/ colleague/neighbor/ Relative or known person in their city- got bigger cars/ good marks/good job/good money and what not.. list is endless.. Not only this some parents even compare the looks of their kids.. lol !! then kids start behaving and acting in similar manner as their parents feeding them. You are unintentionally upbringing a child with same mentality as yours and then you ask them to change their thinking when they start behaving exact same as yours..

A funny incident- I met a school friend (who moved to another country ) after ages. Now she’s a mother of 2. Responsible & well grown professionally . She told me that “As kids I was jealous of your skin colour. That you can wear suits of any colour while on the other hand , I have to wear only those colours which suits my skin colour” and trust me , she’s not at-all dark.. just wheatish). I was so amazed by her telling me this after so many years . But by the fact that she admitted this thing , it simply depicts her maturity level. I love you to infinity if you reading this . So, as kids we are insecure or jealous of stupid things . Sometimes the things which we are born with & literally got no hand in it 🤣 which we realise in our later life that those were stupid thoughts😂

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what we forget as humans is everybody gets 100 points in life means we all get 100 marks total in health , wealth and Love.

Some gets 30 health, 30 wealth and 40 in love.Some gets 10 health, 40 wealth and 50 in love, some gets 0 health, 50 wealth and 50 love, while some gets 100 health, 0 wealth, and 0 love & so on.. So think of all the probabilities of 100 being divided into 3.

We as humans tend to look at the highest marks of others while we ignore their lows/ zeros and then start getting jealous of that highest while not embracing our highest but keeping our lowest on top in our mourning list. That’s the basic difference.

So the very first question they ask is how’s your blog going and all you can say is “ well..!! Yeah .. good .. but you know you have written loads of stuff but havenot got enough confidence to post them thinking they might sound funny or stupid . But here I am waiting for my blood test in queue ( still 100 tickets behind ) long wait . So I hope I am able to write my very first blog today . I never imagined that I will be writing my very first blog on wheelchair in queue in hospital 😀 but I have to .

I think if one is lucky enough to be gifted by one the rarest thing on this planet, no matter how hard or painful that thing is – you embrace it happily & not make yourself look victim of it . I have been rare since 12 years now and had an amazingly wonderful life until two years back when I got wheelchair bound.Going from a fully abled working girl to a wheelchair bound girl , everyone looks at me with pity but they don’t know I am soon going to come back with 👊🏽. If there’s One thing that differently abled people don’t want – that is “ sympathy or pity” , That’s the only reason I hid this “ being Rare” thing from the world for 12 years , instead lived a life people were surprised at “ oh ! She enjoys a lot! She travel a lot..!! Well !! Darling if you know you got only few time left, you will do same”. I was given 6 months to live by Indian forties docs in 2007. That was the day I actually started living my life . Since then , I am content & satisfied with whatever I have in my life . I love every single bit of being alive . I live, love, laugh , spend quality time with friends & family (on video calls) . I am not from the kind who gives up easily whether it’s body , habits or relationships ..lol..!!

Life took U – turn when I got differently abled . I don’t like the word “ disabled” . Well , now I can do exact same things “ differently “ that’s the only difference . The most important thing was being ALONE this time . But being Alone doesn’t mean , one is lonely .Biggest Problem right now is that I can’t go back to India coz of my treatments here and my family can’t come & stay in UK coz of the visa restrictions . They can only stay for 180 days in a year time on tourist visa. So , darling , you gotta fight your battle yourself alone & that too in London ( where I never wanted to come in the first place ) . Pretty amazing !! Well .. Destiny !!

Living at kings college Hospital , knowing almost all the nurses, & Docs …discussing their V day plans, their families, their struggles, politics, back home stories, their love life, work life, nurses from around the world , porters who take me to my xrays, ultra sounds and other tests and other departments every other day . Knowing them all.. Doctors who are now friends who just visit me to see me from their respective departments. Blood tests people who come early morning to collect blood sample every morning..now know that she’s super hard to get blood from as her veins will collapse once pricked. They just know which veins they could use and almost all get bruised after first 7-10 days 🤣. Some just see me & give up . As they would love to have that PICC Line in me again .. (that long tube thing which is permanently installed for 6 months in patients body .. ) as I had since July 2018.. cleaners who discuss their weekend plans & hospital politics Food guys who knows my regulars .. discussing the bigger topics like Brexit.. and stuff .. 🤣 Physiotherapist who is my regular now. She teases me every time that whichever ward I go, she follows automatically.. ( her duty gets changed to whichever ward I go coincidentally) . You learn a lot from people from different origins , countries & their journeys inspire you a lot.. Inspiration all around .. from fellow patients who tells how they came to UK , their struggles , their life stories . We humans are basically all heroes in our own stories.Such inspiring people truly 🙏🏼
These all lovely people working as forces in NHS .. Couldn’t thank enough .. living amazing hospitality life only coz of these friendly beautiful angels around .. #blessed🙏 #been12yearsnow #polymyositisawareness #nevergiveup #goingtocomebackwitha👊🏽

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton