Favorite Pastime

Tara Chand Seth is back!

Some people like discussing the weather. Others enjoy talking sex. Many are able to wax eloquent on food. But for us in the Garden, our favorite pastime is chatting on medical matters. We love to discuss our ailments threadbare, badmouth the doctors of all hospitals, yet inform one another of free check-ups, prescribe strange therapies and cures and most irritatingly, tender unsolicited advice.
Today’s provocation was Tara Chand Seth.

Shekhawat is MIB -- Man in Black

He returned last evening, partly to escape the freezing cold in Delhi and also to catch his breath before plunging into another big wedding in the family in February 2016. He said he had been having a hectic time of late and now that he was in the wrong side of the 80s, he gets tired easily.
“I had a by-pass done on my heart 17 years back,” he narrated. “I was then prescribed a fistful of tablets and capsules.

Angad Singh narrates his tale of woe

I took them religiously till about three years back, when I started to feel some unease in my chest. I went for a check-up and the doctor instantly stopped the medicines. My grand-daughter, who is also a doctor, consulted her seniors and they too confirmed that those medicines served no purpose. Since then I am without any medicines and I feel perfectly fine.”
Shekhawat, who also underwent a bypass surgery (three years back), informed that he would have to soon go for a check-up at the Asian Heart Institute in BKC. Over the past week or so, he had endured a battery of tests at the Naval Hospital in Colaba but the findings have scarcely inspired any confidence. [Actually, not many know that late last month, Shekhawat had suffered what seemed to him a ‘silent heart attack’ at Brindavan Gardens in Mysore.] “My son says we need to go for a second opinion,” he said.
Angad Singh narrated a hilarious incident in Mohali one afternoon, when he was abducted by neighborhood women, all because someone saw him exercising a crick in his neck. They got him hospitalized and the doctors there did their best to pin some ailment or disease on him. When they failed after two days, they decided to ‘invent’ a cardiac problem and threatened him with angioplasty. By then his daughter (a doctor) came to his rescue and he could escape unscathed.
Today, looking at this tall, handsome army veteran, who would say he is 82?