You're never going to believe this
So, for my recovery walks, I've been going down to the beach. The resort only has about 100 yards of beachfront, so I haven't ventured too far. Partly because their are "beach vendors" to the South, and what looks like a slum/fishing village to the North. So yesterday I got brave and headed further South, of course to be intercepted by the vendor. He asks me what was up, and I told him, "hip surgery." He responds "me too, 4 months ago." Hmmm. Pure salesman I think. But he's nice enough and walks with me for a while, and also confirms that Dr. Bose was one of the team that worked on him. Unbelievable. Anyway I finish my walk and return to resort. I thought what the heck, I have only spent about $40 of the $100 in cash I brought so I thought I'd buy something from him tomorrow.So I go out this morning, again intercepted. This time he shows me his scar. Dang he might be telling the truth. "I'll bring my x-ray this afternoon and show it to you," he says. Really! I was of course curious to see if indeed he got resurfacing or the old replacement. He said he was a fisherman but still hesitant about getting back in the boat yet, too early at 4 months. OK, I'll come see you this afternoon.
I decided to go for my afternoon walk and change $20 into 880 rupees at the resort and head to the beach. I see him walking and he sees me. I want to kind of get through this so I head right for him. He welcomes me and says, "I have my x-ray, come see." Dang. It's a resurface indeed. He had a badly misshapen pelvis, but there it was, a resurface just like mine. His name is Palani and he said to give Dr. Bose his regards when I see him on Monday.
Here's a guy who sells stuff on the beach and probably makes $2 a day gets better health care than we do in the US. Why is that? I'm sitting here shaking my head in disbelief, I have to abandon our health care system, spend all my own money to travel literally half way around the world to get health care provided to the indigent in India. Something's wrong with this picture.
But I did get a couple of nice carved elephants out of the deal.
Rus
posted by Russell Kappius @ 4:50 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Rus!
Glad to see that you are progressing as expected except for the nerve stuff, hope that you have seen other posts concerning the same issue and that it appears to fade off in short time. Now for the BIG TIP...DON'T GO IN THE OCEAN!!! No matter how inviting it may appear! When we were there, I took one of those little strolls down by the fishing fleet and found that the fishermen relieve themselves right there by the waterline, hence the tide flushes it right into the ocean - UGH!! There are certainly a few things about India that slam the third world concept into the forefront of your brain!
Hope that you are enjoying the Ideal Resort, say a special hello to Sadeghi for us. He was a special part of our stay and took extremely good care of my husband with extra pillows in the chair and such. We didn't go for all the buffet stuff as much and ordered off the menu, I especially recommend the tandoori chicken and the tandoori platter for a real treat. Have you had one of those awful Kingfisher beers yet? It was my first and last drink in India after reading that the alcohol is manufactured in India under the marketing labels - real gut rot in my opinion.
I'm really sad to hear of your missing ring and very surprised that any of the staff would stoop so low, will keep hoping that it turns up on your checkup prior to flying home.
Enjoying your posts, keep them up and say hello to Mac for us too! He should be arriving at Ideal soon. If you get really bored, try a drive into 'town' to view the temple carvings, they are easily visible from the car if you don't feel like traipsing around and the drive around the rock workers is amazing. The resort has a great driver, Vincent?, who took extra care when Mace and I went out for a short excursion to stave off the boredom.
Keep the Happy Hipster vision alive!
Mari & Mace Stanley - Mace 2/10/06 Dr. Bose left BHR
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