Health Concerns

Jagmohan Papneja

Sitaram Hivarkar

With the monsoon receding, medical issues in the Club have started mounting. Linking the two would of course, be tenuous (so far as we are concerned), but when one after another members report sick and attendance drops, things do get worrisome.
For some time Sitaram Hivarkar has been coming late to the Garden because of “crippling pain” in both his legs which has turned worse during the monsoon. Ved Prakash Grover too walks with a pronounced limp nowadays, but he still manages to be punctual every morning – even as he might have to do part of the exercises seated. And Ruksana Khan has stopped coming altogether due to "ankle and heel" issues.
Jagmohan Papneja has also been under the weather for the past few days and only today, could he resume his exercises. Likewise, Nahid Khan is down with viral fever since last Saturday.

Nahid Khan

Razia Khan

Apparently everybody in her family has caught the bug and it would be some time before she shall return to the Garden. “My home has become a dispensary,” she said on phone, her voice sounding like a man’s.
There are many others, but no one as serious or critical as Ghasi Ram Garg (ref: post of August 9). For the past four days, he has been lying in coma at Kokilaben Hospital, following a brain hemorrhage. Tests are currently on and from what we understand the doctors have succeeded in bringing his BP down to normal. His condition is described as “stable”, but he is yet to regain consciousness.
Then there was Razia Khan turning up after a week with multiple perforations in both her arms. It seems her BP had shot up and her doctors decided that the best way to bring it down was to drain out some blood. So there she was this morning displaying the little white patches from where her blood had been drawn. The good news is that her BP is now stable.
Renu Babani:
Blame it on the weather, considering some days are humid and other days pleasant. However, let's be grateful for being alive. A positive attitude cures everything.
Jagmohan Papneja:
We have no control over the air we breathe. Air pollutants inhaled affect the system and we become victims. This is why I have stopped breathing exercises for some time.