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Promises in December 2016 after Noteban in India

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With #Noteban and demonetization completing a month the central government is giving us  a bouquet of goodies.

The financial benefits of using digital currency sounds promising.

According top the television broadcast,they include:

  • Petrol and diesel 0.75% cheaper if you pay with digital money.
  • Rail travellers travelling with tickets cut online will get a free ten lakh accidental insurance .
  • Added services in railways will be having up to 5%discount  for those paid for digitally.
  • Monthly tickets on rails will also have special discounts for those cut online.
  • General insurances and life insurance bought and paid for, through their customer portal

This looks good. In psychology terms this is positive reinforcement.

That’s actually great. The more benefits the roll out ,the easier it is  for us to keep ourselves motivated. After all   money saved is money earned.

I have just one wish .

Banks keep our money safe .Plus  we get better interest rates on keeping our money in banks.

Lower rates of EMIs and better security for digital transactions, can make the  India story  trendsetting.

What’s your take on the recent updates?

Comment below to let me know.

 

 

How to make children stop watching TV during exams #Mondaymommymoments

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How do you stop children from  TV watching during exams?

My answer to this. I don’t stop. My daughter is 4 years 9 Months. Not having too much schoolwork.
Exams are also very laid back. But habits need to be started early.

In our family luckily TV watching is not often.
Both me and my hubby read and a lot. So TV is not an addiction. What we try to do is make study time concentrated, productive and fun. My daughter responds well to a healthy competitive environment. So I tell her to write something beautiful and I will also be doing reading or writing during the same time. The game is to see who gets their work done well first.

This way 3 things happen :

1)Rai learns just getting work done, is not the way.
Quality is important

2)Making it a healthy competition, makes her want to perform her best. Life is competitive.  Nothing ever is given on a platter. The competition is rarely fair. Grooming children to learn what is a healthy competition and what’s not prevents a lot of heartaches.

Learning well and doing well both matters.

Since we are doing two different type of work there’s no comparison between us. Rather it’s an attempt to measure her own abilities.

3)When I study with her, she knows learning occurs throughout one’s life. It’s not something you just get over.

TV watching happens as a scheduled activity and as a reward for getting work done. We all learn best by example.

Life After Radiotherapy for Head Neck Cancer :5 Things to improve life

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Life After Radiotherapy for Head Neck Cancer is not easy.

Squamous cell cancer of the head-neck region if detected early can be successfully treated with Radiotherapy.The problem is, radiotherapy affects the hair cells and oral mucosal cells extensively.
What is the side effect?
Hair: Hairfall and thinning if hair.
Oral cavity and oropharynx: Oral mucositis, Glossitis, Ulcers make life difficult few things help.

Life After Radiotherapy for Head Neck Cancer: 5 Things to improve quality of  life

  • Appearance
  • Diet
  • Supplements
  • Hygiene
  • Sleep ,exercise,meditation
For appearance
  • Wigs for women help a lot to tide over. Good quality wigs help to keep looking good without feeling the stress of changing appearance. Cancer treatment is difficult. There’s no easy way to deal with it except be prepared with the best help you have. As a doctor, I  always encourage my patients to concentrate on self-care and appearance. That always helps in boosting up the morale and has a wonderful effect on healing.

Divatress has an extensive selection of Lace Front Wigs, Full Wigs, Half Wigs, Hair Extensions. They are 100% Remy Human Hair and looks natural. That’s a big help you just want to feel better again. Wigs help in bridging the gap.

Because women need to feel good about themselves. That’s the first step in getting better. The best part you can change your hairstyle every month and not worry about using harsh chemicals and styling to look good. While your natural hair heals and grows back, having a little help to look and feel good is the right way to do it. Feeling good about own self and looking good has a way of releasing the feel good-hormones which helps.

  • Natural hair care and skin care. The more you go back to natural products, the better it is. The best part about natural products is they can be as easy as using the homemade curd as a hair pack. Hot oil therapy at home with coconut oil can go a long way in providing much-needed nutrition to your hair.

For diet:

Supplements

  • Have multivitamins and multiminerals for supplementing nutrition and help your cells recover. Using Vitamin E mixed with hair oil helps improve hair quality.
  • Antioxidants play a big role in helping your cells recover.

For the Mind

  • Meditation and exercise have a big role to play.
  • Take up a hobby.
  • Garden, draw, write. Creativity helps you heal faster.
  • Read books filled with optimism.

Immunity and Hydration

  • Drink adequate water because drying of the mucosa increases after radiotherapy.
  • Take care of your hygiene. Immunity being lower, you need to be very careful about using a public washroom.

Remember radiotherapy rays help kill the evil cancer cells, but your brave soldier cells get a beating too. To help them recover you need to give them a helping hand.

Disclaimer: This is an article meant for spreading awareness and not to be considered as professional medical advice. Kindly take all healthcare decisions after consultation with your doctor. This is a sponsored post. All opinions are mine. Read my full disclosure

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Puri diaries :The pilgrimage to Happiness

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I have a problem .
A mental  irregularity you might say.
I need to travel to a place with uninhibited nature every 2 /3 months.
 
Not shopping malls or movie theatres .But greenery ,mountains and the seas.
 
Greenery I have  at my home.
(Check out my Instagram feed)
But there’s really no way ,with current technology to have a piece of the ocean or a small mountain in your living room.
 
For now my imagination and frequent travels help.
 
My trip to Puri was in October .
 
This year I  did the mandatory Durga Pujo pandal  hop with a heavy heart.
My sister and mother didn’t come to Kolkata for the Pujo .
 
 
The crowds on the roads and the empty house  was too sad.
We decided to visit Puri .
 
 
Puri is Jagannath Dham.Home of Lord Jagannath .One of the sacred Char Dham for Hindus  .
The  main idol in the temple is made of wood .It’s replaced every 18 years with exact replica.
 

 

The miniature wooden Lord Jagannath ,I got for my little one
The miniature wooden Lord Jagannath ,I got for my little one
 
This is one of the unique features of the idol.As most Hindu temple idols are made of stone or metal.
 
The famous Rath Yatra or Chariot festival starts from the temple.
 
 
 
 
Bengali’s treat Puri like their home away from home.
It’s close to Kolkata.The cuisine is similar.They love fish too.
 
 
 
We took an Indigo flight.It took us 45 minutes including take off and landing
Bhubaneswar airport is 65 Km away from Puri and the road is excellent.
Close to the airport we had a cup of masala chai with the typical road side tea stall biscuit.
 
 
It was the best chai I had for the entire trip.
For Kolkata people it’s like the Maharani chai and the Dilli wala  Dhaba chai .
Milky and perfect .
 
 

The Hotel

 
The Mahadadhi palace greeted us with conch shells and the  traditional Tika.
The hotel is located bang opposite the beach.

 

The beautiful bedroom of the Royal suite.
The beautiful bedroom of the Royal suite.
 
 
It’s a beautiful  heritage property .It was the retreat of Maharaja Panchkot.
Fort Mahadadhi is a beach view hotel .
Mahadadhi means the great sea.
The ocean view from our room
The ocean view from our room.The colour makes you stare for hours without getting tired
 
You have a view of the majestic ocean right from the bedroom
We had one if the Royal suites .
 The rates included breakfast and dinner .But lunch is generally a la carte .
The variety of food may vary depending on occupancy.
 
 
Location of the hotel is perfect.
It’s 50 ft from the ocean.
Lord Jagannath temple just 1.5 Km.
Railway station a few minutes away.
They have 3 restaurants including a purely vegetarian one.
There’s a swimming pool including a splash pool for children.
 
The staff was very helpful and courteous.
 
 

The Food

 
The seafood was delicious.
They served some of the most delicious fresh sea food I have ever tasted.
Mouthwatering sea food fresh from the ocean will tickle yourThe ocean view from our room taste buds.
Mouthwatering sea food fresh from the ocean will tickle your taste buds
 
Only con for me .Very few options for desert .
 

The pilgrimage thing

 
The trip to Lord Jagannath temple was mixed.The entire temple round is pretty organized .But I have issues with crowds .It was saptami and pretty crowded  .
The temple architecture is from 12th century and will stop you in your track.
No photography is allowed inside and the security is pretty strict .
 
It’s your eyes and your memory which help you soak in the beauty of the sculptures and carvings on the temple wall.
Buildings don’t have life .But I have always felt that  temples , have stories to tell.
 
The story of the people who built them ,toiling under the hot sun.The people who lived there.
 
The hopes the dreams ,the heart breaks.
 
These echos are louder in places of worship.
 
If you listen carefully you can hear  tales,  the ancient walls  whisper.
After the worship part we were lucky to taste the bhog and prasad.
It was absolutely delicious.My favourite was the “malpua with rabri”, which was easily the best sweet dish I tasted in Orissa .
 
The malpua  was lightly flavoured with cardamom and just the right amount of sweetness.A perfect food memory .
 
 
 

The sea at Puri.The star of the show.

 
It’s rolling with huge waves .A rich blue.
Don’t try to take a bath without a life guard to help you.It’s pretty treacherous .
The sea beach is a child's delight.I am clicking pictures staring at the sea.Thinking about tasting the delicious samosas rosogolla and chanar jilipi that hawker cos carrying.Rai is busy building and rebuilding her sand castle as the waves play with her.Hubby stands guard wondering whether the beach food should be tried or not.
The sea beach is a child’s delight.I am clicking pictures staring at the sea.Thinking about tasting the delicious samosas, rosogolla and chanar jilipi that hawker is carrying.Rai is busy building and rebuilding her sand castle ,as the waves play with her.Hubby stands guard wondering whether the beach food should be tried or not.
 
The ocean makes you humble.
It’s vastness and your size.It’s eternal beauty and our lifetime .
It never stops and rests .
Staring at the ocean you feel the calm that comes from being light-years old.
 
 
 
 

The Shopping

Priyadarshini a weavers association of Orissa had the most gorgeous weaves .
Other than that they have beautiful Dokra work ,tribal art pieces .
I love handmade goods.
They tell stories which machine-made stuff don’t .
When you imagine the time dedication and creativity each of these piece demand its awe-inspiring.
My shopping stash.
The embroidered bags which make gorgeous gifts
The embroidered bags which make gorgeous gifts
 
The embroidered bedcover and cushion covers to deck up my home
The embroidered bedcover and cushion covers to deck up my home
 
I also got a couple of prints on silk for framing.The beauty of these handcrafted pieces  will brighten up any home.
Would you like to  get some of these gorgeous stuff for your home.
Let me know in the comments below

Navi Mumbai creche horror #MondayMommyMoments

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When I wrote   Healthier mothers and babies:Mommy stay with me , wasn’t bluffing .
Not about the abuse
Neither about the results of it.
The  post traumatic stress , which often goes untreated.
 
 
The scary part ,I knew parents and babies , who were recovering from this very trauma.
 
Both parents doctors working for the Government .
They have a baby 3 years old.  
Where will the baby stay ,when the parents leave for their work?
Mom has taken as many leaves as she could. 
Grand parents did their best.
But they needed a solution .
Obviously day care was the answer .
A suitable one found.
 
Hefty amount paid.
But the child while going for  day care threw a tantrum everyday. 
She stopped eating properly.
Used to cry in her sleep.
Parents were worried . 
But did they  have another solution ?
Helpless parents .Traumatised child.
Life went on.
One fine day when the parents got off work quickly, they went to pick up their daughter before time .
On reaching the crèche they find the main door open.
Loud music blaring in the flat.
 
One child locked inside  a room crying loudly .
 
Another room had a child crouched in a corner. 
Crying.
 
Their daughter had her fingers inside her ear ,mouth pressed into the bedding of a cot ,crying inconsolably.
 
The next door neighbours, could be heard fighting loudly . The thin walls separating  the two flats , couldn’t drown theit voices.
No sign of any guard ,caregiver ,owner .
The shocker ?
 
The parents   did what they could .
Took the child and went home.
Did anybody stop them?
No.
Did they receive a phone call from the crèche,  asking about the child?
 

The Navi Mumbai  incident, is another horror story.

3 levels of horror !

1)There was a CCTV which caught the footage .
Still that nonhuman being, thrashed the little baby mercilessly .
A child unable to speak protest or complain .
The utter disregard for any karma.
What exactly is the problem ?
Is she mentally disturbed.
Obviously she is otherwise no sane human would beat up a baby
Is she a habitual  criminal child abuser?
Obviously she is,
otherwise she would be scared of the CCTV.
Is she afraid of repercussions ?
Obviously not.
The owner doesn’t care after the money is paid.
No quality control.
No supervision.
 
 
The  woman maybe a mother.
I wonder how much abuse her children have to withstand !
 
The people  who are in the Government , the people who own the companies ,everyone has a mother.
But  everyone forgets.
A mother who has to leave her child with strangers, does so with  a specific belief.
The belief that the money she earns ,will be helpful for the child’s future.
Carrying a burden of guilt and a heavy heart ,she drops off the little one everyday.
Little knowing, that unscrupulous people take her money .Treat the child badly and  unapologetically ask for tips.
 
Both me and my sister were raised in crèche.
Till class 4 .As far as I remember I was never treated badly.
There was  one complaint my sister had.
The eggs or the fish my mom used to give her for lunch, never reached her plate.
She got only the curry with rice.
So except for food theft, not much lasting trauma.
More or less well-balanced adults.
 
When I started having day school.
It was a blessing
No more crèche.

A few solutions which we can pray for

 

#How the Government can help 

Open  crèche in all offices .
The mother will  work   happily . Less chance of sudden leave-taking, because of absentee maid.
Make  CCTV footage from crèche,  constantly available to the  mom.
 
Private companies same advice.
Plus work from home opportunities, in both sector, till child starts full day school .
After all having an ayah at home with the child is also hardly full proof.
A horror story of an infant being injected sedatives ,while the ayah locked up the home everyday   had made me sleepless.
 
Children are our future .
A society which doesn’t think about the plight of its children and mothers ,loses its humanity.
Loses its chance to be really great.
 
Just because children have no voice ,no representation in the Government , doesn’t mean they don’t have rights.
If we give birth it’s after a lot of pain.
It’s time now to take up more pain.
As mothers we have to be the voice of these  children.
As bloggers we have to be the voice of these working moms.
Are you ready to be guilty of tolerating child abuse ?
Or are you going to do something about it.
 Comment below to let me know . 
Day 30 #NaBloPoMo
Linking up with #mg
 

TINNITUS :5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

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TINNITUS  or ringing ,whistling,buzzing sound in ear is a queer thing.

It’s actually like you can hear the parts of your brain moving.

It’s one of the most mysterious complaints  we face as doctor’s.

Have you ever had that feeling of buzzing  in ear when you had a cold?

That’s what is Tinnitus.

An irritating background  buzz.

For people who suffer from this.It’s more than irritation. It’s life consuming.

What causes Tinnitus?

 

Uncommon cause
  • Acoustic Neuroma
  • Meniere’s disease
  • Paget disease

 

What tests should you do to start treatment  early?

 

  • Pure tone audiometry
  • Tympanometry
  • Short increment sensitivity index
  • Tone decay test
  • Thyroid hormone profile
  • Blood sugar
  • Lipid Profile
  • CT Brain

Depending on the above reports

  • MRI Cerebellopontine angle

 

Tips to live with Tinnitus

The best way to fight this problem is to rewire your brain.

You make your brain believe, you are not bothered by the sound.

Pretend it’s your personal background music.

Pretend  its the neighbours.

Haven’t you ever put on music to drown out noisy neighbourhood fights?

 

In order to avoid being irritated ,medicines will help.To some extent . 

Mindfulness can help decrease the stress of tackling this problem.

 

Lifestyle changes needed include:

1)Go to bed with TV or music on to block the noise.

Very easy to do and one of the best ways to live with tinnitus .
2)Exercise :Makes you tired enough to fall asleep  quickly.

When you work hard you sleep like a log.
3)Neuro vitamins like Vitamin B6 B12 and combination  of  antioxidants.They  help protect your nerves against age related nerve degeneration. 

Tinnitus specific drugs have  varied results.
4)Avoidance of smoking and alcohol helps prevent further damage to the nerves.
5)Tinnitus retraining therapy

A type of cognitive  behavioural therapy .
6)Tinnitus maskers:These are like hearing aids. But act as buffers to block the ringing sound in  your ear.

 

Disclaimer :This is information for educational purpose.For full evaluation  always visit your doctor.

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