Colors of Bali

Hey all! I know you must be as much excited to read this post as I am to share it with you! Yeah! You guessed it right. It’s about my recent trip to Bali which is quoted better as ” The Beautiful Bali”. It is completely justified to call it pristine, serene and beautiful and I would like to share all the aspects of this Bali trip. Bali is a place well suited for both the honeymooners who want to snuggle under the sheets feeling like free birds in a beautiful place and for the party animals who would roam about careless on the open roads and drive in the middle of the night just to feel ecstatic. I loved it for both reasons… I had a wonderful time with the love of my life. The beauty of this place is magnetic and fires up the hidden emotions in you. Mind it! These can be the bubbly emotions and you might become a child again screaming out loud on top of a cliff waving at the far away sun setting across the ocean or the sensual ones which forces you to live your honeymoon period again…giggles! So, let me explain a bit about how to get there. We had booked through MMT but I would not recommend it at all. We had a lot of problems dealing with the MMT team as there is no way you can call them. There is one customer care helpline where each time you call, a different person picks up the phone. After an endless questioning of the details of the trip, they transfer the call and there it goes all over again. So, you should try to book the trip through another portal or maybe yourself. The flight is long. Booking a flight in a late hour is a good idea. You can sleep and pass the time. There is usually a stopover at Kuala Lumpur which is short. And then after a 3 hour flight you finally see the amazing view out from your windows. Just do not miss the window seat! We stayed in Kuta central park on the first day. It is a nice hotel with an amazing pool and bar which is accessible from the pool. You can sit on the stools inside the pool and have a drink.

We had a few drinks at the bar and headed towards the beach. Kuta beach and Legian beach are nearby. The beaches in Bali are very clean and are every surfer’s dream come true because of their waves. At night we went to the famous Shisha bar, which is a mystical place. Why? Because as soon as you enter, you get confused whether you are in Bali or Dubai? The interiors are done with an Arabic theme and they even have a Belly dancing event on Saturdays.

Belly dancing at Shisha cafe Shisha cafe Day 2 We were greeted by our dearest and coolest guide Giri. He was the coolest because of his true dedication to his profession. He made every effort to make the day wonderful for us. And that is another amazing thing about Bali. Everyone in Bali puts there complete effort to make you happy if you go there. We had a city tour that day which started with a Barung dance, a chapter from the famous Mahabharat that we could not understand much. But it was surely entertaining and we could see the complex hand moments that were a part of the dance The famous Barong This day was hectic but eventful and tehn we went to a local craftsmanship area where we say handmade jewellery, wooden paintings and cloth. The best part of the day started when we visited this a local tea farm where we had CATPOOCHINO. It is the local Luwak coffee. Want to know why is special? Because it is made from cat’s poo. Yay! You read it right. Actually, the Luwak cat does not have a digestive system to alter the coffee beans which it ingests and they come out in the cat’s poo. These are then brewed to make the famous Luwak coffee. We made our own coffee!
Mystery of CATPOOCHINO Flavoured coffee and tea After that our guide took us to a beautiful dining table in the moddle of a serene view to taste flavored tea and coffee. It included turmeric tea, mangosteen, rosella tea and coconut coffee, Balinese spiced coffee, etc. I even bought the coconut coffee and lemongrass tea which are ready to make. You just need to add water to it. We even saw this amazing plant there. Look at the picture below! Doesn’t it look like teddy bears growing on a plant… So, now I know where do teddy’s come from?.. haha So, this trip was long and I think I should write about the next days in my future posts if you like this one. Let me know through your comments if you want to know about the following days.

Dramatic change in life after a back surgery

In my earlier post, I had written about how I was diagnosed with the disc prolapse that led to the following explained changes in my life. The purpose of this blog post is to help many like me who suffer from Chronic Back Problems. The reason of my writing is also to seek support from the people who are in my situation and have already undergone surgery. I would love to hear your part of the story as here is mine .

I was diagnosed with a massive disc prolapse in December 2015. The reason, as they say, may be any but my overzealous work habits are one of the major cause of my condition according to what I accept now. Maybe I knew about this earlier but it took me 5 years to accept it was. I worked in the conditions which were not amicable and still did not do anything to bring a change. I rather adjusted myself and kept on performing dentistry procedures on small kids without taking proper precautions for the chair adjustments and relied mainly on bending my back for the purpose. The grave mistake was that I kept pushing myself when my body had already started showing signs of distress. Its not like I reached the condition requiring surgery all of a sudden. It happened gradually and I accept it was partially my mistake when I know it was fore written in my fate.

In the beginning, when I used to get back ache I would still push myself for an extra mile of walk. I wanted to feel strong but my body could not fight with my arguing and stubborn mind and it finally lost. I would carry heavy bags myself and heavy meant really very heavy in those days when we were shifting our things from one city to another. Instead of hiring a person to do it for us, I volunteered to shift and arrange heavy furniture at home. I am hypothyroid and was on a lot of supplements for my muscle aches and deficiencies related to Vitamin D and I ignored it all. My mind told me that I was strong and at that time my own mind went against me.

After this whole shifting had taken place, we joined the new hospital where I faced some auxiliary staff shortage. And now you must think that poor me, maybe that was the reason of my misery! Let me tell you straight away that it wasn’t. This is a fact that the auxiliary staffs which are backbone of dentistry were less in the department but no one forced me to work if I dint want to in such conditions. My ambitious nature told me to push myself and work with wrong back positions. Anyways, within one week of joining, I started having severe back ache. We went for an MRI, when my doctor told me to take a break of two weeks and rest as I had a tear in my disc.

As you can expect till now, my answer was “NO” and I took heavy doses of pain killers and muscle relaxants instead and still kept pushing. We had joined in June and by late December, rather on the New year’s eve, I got the biggest shock of my life, the diagnosis of ” DISC PROLAPSE”. I remember the day as it was yesterday. After the MRI, we consulted the neurosurgeon who straight away told me to get a surgery done. It was easy for him to say and literally impossible for me to digest. It took time to reach the neurons of my brain as to what had actually happened. I had indeed done some mistakes and carelessness to my health but did I deserve this?

By this time, my gait had changed and right side of my hip was more on the right side than the middle spine. I was in severe pain and one night before this MRI, I had to stand for 4 hours straight because I could not lie down in lieu of the excruciating pain. My back felt like it was a hinge joint that was not greased enough and if I laid down would have broken into two. I was bent and my gait was changed. I looked at myself in the mirror and could feel that the mental pain of seeing what I saw “of my posture” and it was much worse than the actual physical pain.

My husband, being very supportive, immediately told me to get the surgery done and that he was going to support me through it. It is a blessing to have a support in such chronic illnesses but in my case, everyone who mattered was not that supportive. I could not get this surgery done without the support of my parents and in laws. They were scared about the consequences the surgery could bring. Spinal surgery is a stigma in countries like India, that too on a girl of 27 years who still had to bear children and people cared more about that than anything else in India.

So, I had to drop the idea of getting the surgery done and I took a leave of one month to rest and try the conservative treatment. My mother came to take care of me and the whole month went more or less asymptomatic. The major reason for that, as we found later, was the rest that I was taking. I was on heavy meds which made me sleep most of the day and I seldom walk. I would just go to the washroom and back to my bed. So, after a month, the irritating feeling of tightness and something getting pulled behind my knee and the whole back of my leg had almost disappeared and my mom went back home.

Stars had decided otherwise and the pain and the annoying pull in the back of my leg was back before I could actually start to feel normal at all. As soon as I resumed my daily chores at home, the pain was back. It increased over the next few days. It got exasperated and I would cry without knowing that I was. My husband could not watch me in the same condition for long and so he told me that I was getting that damn surgery done. I would not agree as everyone in our families was against the same. I was scared but he persuaded me to get rid of the vexatious pull behind the leg. The back pain was one problem that I could handle but this annoying feeling of the pull that they call the Sciatica pain in medical terms was killing my mind. I was so maddened by the feeling that I got scared every time I had to take another step. The Sciatica pain would come and go like a ghost. So, I dint know whether the next step that I take would be accompanied by it or not. This whole dilemma made me ill mentally and I wanted to get over with this.

Finally, I agreed to my husband’s pleas and we decided to book our tickets for India and get the damn surgery done. I have had a surgery before for a peri-anal abscess which was drained under GA and was a complicated procedure as 300 ml of pus was drained when I had already started showing signs of sepsis. That surgery was followed by a one month period of pain, distress, a lot of doctor visits and cleaning and bandaging at home plus plenty of meds. So, this is how I prepared my mind that again this time after the surgery, one or two months I will be in trouble but the problem will be solved forever. I don’t even remember sometimes that I had that abscess now a days because the surgery takes the problem away!

So, we came to India, visited a few doctors and took their opinion. Each one of them told us that I would be back on my legs the other day of surgery and back to work in 7-10 days. They said it was a minor operation and nothing to worry about. What followed next was horrendous………..

Colors of Bali

Hey all! I know you must be as much excited to read this post as I am to share it with you! Yeah! You guessed it right. It’s about my recent trip to Bali which is quoted better as ” The Beautiful Bali”. It is completely justified to call it pristine, serene and beautiful and I would like to share all the aspects of this Bali trip. Bali is a place well suited for both the honeymooners who want to snuggle under the sheets feeling like free birds in a beautiful place and for the party animals who would roam about careless on the open roads and drive in the middle of the night just to feel ecstatic. I loved it for both reasons… I had a wonderful time with the love of my life. The beauty of this place is magnetic and fires up the hidden emotions in you. Mind it! These can be the bubbly emotions and you might become a child again screaming out loud on top of a cliff waving at the far away sun setting across the ocean or the sensual ones which forces you to live your honeymoon period again…giggles! So, let me explain a bit about how to get there. We had booked through MMT but I would not recommend it at all. We had a lot of problems dealing with the MMT team as there is no way you can call them. There is one customer care helpline where each time you call, a different person picks up the phone. After an endless questioning of the details of the trip, they transfer the call and there it goes all over again. So, you should try to book the trip through another portal or maybe yourself. The flight is long. Booking a flight in a late hour is a good idea. You can sleep and pass the time. There is usually a stopover at Kuala Lumpur which is short. And then after a 3 hour flight you finally see the amazing view out from your windows. Just do not miss the window seat! We stayed in Kuta central park on the first day. It is a nice hotel with an amazing pool and bar which is accessible from the pool. You can sit on the stools inside the pool and have a drink.

We had a few drinks at the bar and headed towards the beach. Kuta beach and Legian beach are nearby. The beaches in Bali are very clean and are every surfer’s dream come true because of their waves. At night we went to the famous Shisha bar, which is a mystical place. Why? Because as soon as you enter, you get confused whether you are in Bali or Dubai? The interiors are done with an Arabic theme and they even have a Belly dancing event on Saturdays.

Belly dancing at Shisha cafe Shisha cafe Day 2 We were greeted by our dearest and coolest guide Giri. He was the coolest because of his true dedication to his profession. He made every effort to make the day wonderful for us. And that is another amazing thing about Bali. Everyone in Bali puts there complete effort to make you happy if you go there. We had a city tour that day which started with a Barung dance, a chapter from the famous Mahabharat that we could not understand much. But it was surely entertaining and we could see the complex hand moments that were a part of the dance The famous Barong This day was hectic but eventful and tehn we went to a local craftsmanship area where we say handmade jewellery, wooden paintings and cloth. The best part of the day started when we visited this a local tea farm where we had CATPOOCHINO. It is the local Luwak coffee. Want to know why is special? Because it is made from cat’s poo. Yay! You read it right. Actually, the Luwak cat does not have a digestive system to alter the coffee beans which it ingests and they come out in the cat’s poo. These are then brewed to make the famous Luwak coffee. We made our own coffee!
Mystery of CATPOOCHINO Flavoured coffee and tea After that our guide took us to a beautiful dining table in the moddle of a serene view to taste flavored tea and coffee. It included turmeric tea, mangosteen, rosella tea and coconut coffee, Balinese spiced coffee, etc. I even bought the coconut coffee and lemongrass tea which are ready to make. You just need to add water to it. We even saw this amazing plant there. Look at the picture below! Doesn’t it look like teddy bears growing on a plant… So, now I know where do teddy’s come from?.. haha So, this trip was long and I think I should write about the next days in my future posts if you like this one. Let me know through your comments if you want to know about the following days.

“A message to all parents ‘ Please save your child’s milk teeth till their physiological or natural…”

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Go green and save the ecosystem for future generations

Going green is the need of the hour. If you want to ensure your children and their children live a healthy life free of disease then you need to take the necessary steps for protecting the environment. All of us have read in our primary school books the importance of greenery in cleansing the air and about many human activities which are deteriorating the natural balance. But why do we forget them as we grow up. C’mon make up your mind and go green.

The necessary changes to be made:

Reduce the use of paper and learn to recycle

Trees are a boon to human kind and make the environment clean in a number of ways so don’t you think the first step of change in your living lifestyle should focus on protecting these trees? Want to know how? It is pretty simple. Reduce the use of paper because the timber required to make them comes from trees. In this world of electronic and digital devices, the use of paper can be reduced if one decides and even if you have to use the paper for some important work, don’t forget to recycle.

Make a compost pit in your backyard

Another eco friendly change that you can make in your daily life is, setting up a compost pit. It is huge trend in America these days and if you are a gardening lover, you can use this compost to grow organic food in your backyard. All you need to do is dig a pit and put the vegetable waste in it on a daily basis. Bacteria are going to eat that up and give you fertile manure for your garden.

Energy use cut down at your home

Don’t you think this is a double benefit way of reducing load on your pocket by decreasing your electricity bill and definitely decreasing the load on the Mother Earth. You can start with adapting some good habits like switching off the light and the fan each time you leave the room, even if it is for a small duration. Unplug all the electrical appliances in your home when they are not in use. Next time you need to change your bulb, go for a CFL or LED bulb.

Use old clothes as rugs for kitchen cleaning

Don’t order a large pile of paper towel every time you plan a party at your home for the after cleaning. Why don’t you use your old tees or your faded shirt to do that chore? So now you see how easy it is to go eco friendly? It is not like you have to do big tasks. The solution lies in your home and you just have to get enlightened.

Use of eco-friendly personal care products

There are many products that you use in daily life which contain harmful chemicals that are detrimental to your health as well as damaging to the environment. A small change made in buying these products from a place which produces them organically will be a gift to the nature. Daily products like baby care products, home décor, jewellery, personal care products can be bought from our website that focuses on making each product totally chemical free and harmless. You can still buy them at an affordable price.

So, stop thinking and start making these small changes to go green because they are easy and your way of expressing gratitude to the Mother Nature.

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