Bad to Worse

Pooped out after the exercises today

One of the biggest ironies of life in the Garden is that when we require the sun, we do not get it. During the winter months, the sun is late to rise and when it does, it carefully skirts around the area where we exercise in the Garden.
Now that summer is near, the sun has selectively started invading the very same spot where it is least wanted. Before we are even half way through the exercises, it would be blazing upon us mercilessly until we stew in our own juices nice and proper.
This is cruel. And one person unable to bear the torture is Shekhawat.

Shekhawat

For the last three days, he has been leaving the Garden early for getting some tests done in a nearby pathological centre. He complains of exhaustion and pain in the chest and spends much of the time during the exercises in the shade, seated alone on a bench.
Doctors have not been able to detect anything serious. But since he already has a heart condition, they are not taking chances and have put him through a battery of tests. Shekhawat says that the scar on his chest (from a bypass surgery) has turned into a painful sore, oozing blood and pus. Siba Prasad Maitra has confirmed that the medicines prescribed so far are mainly antibiotics which should take care of any possible infection.
Shekhawat’s problem is that he perspires profusely and this causes him great discomfort, particularly in the area around the sore. On his visit to Rajasthan last month, he got his chest hair removed by a village barber. Now he suspects that the barber’s razor is responsible for his present plight as it had not been properly sterilized.
The sweltering heat has turned things from bad to worse.

Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
The weather all around has abruptly changed for the worse. Senior citizens have to take extra precautions. The sun is very powerful. Shekhawat should not ignore the physical warnings. He must observe proper care. There is no harm in getting a thorough check-up.