Reunion

During so much distress, at least one person was able to make me smile....

I have a video of the reunion with her roaring and every thing, but it is too big to upload.

Love,

Mama

My health crises

Jay Sri Sri Narasimhadeva!

Hare Krishna!

By now every one must have heard of my recent health crises.

Due to continued infections and pain in the belly, probably due to several factors, including my one cell friends the Entamoeba and E. Histolytica, my appendix got so severely inflamed, that I was strongly advised to have it surgically removed. While getting a second opinion to make sure that Appendicitis was really the diagnosis, it was discovered that not only the appendix but also the gall bladder was inflamed with multiple stones showing up in the Ultrasound picture.

Another severe health problem I was dealing with, was a infected tooth, which either needed to be extracted or "put to sleep". Due to the severe pain, I chosed to take care of the tooth first. While I was being treated in the torcher chamber by Dr Gandhi, I asked her if she knew some one whom I could see about my abdominal problems. She referred me to a friend of hers at the Woodland Hospital, which was right next to the zoo in Kolkata. Dr. Sadique told me to go down to see his secretary and get admitted right away. I told him that none of my family members were with me and I would prefer to wait until my son Japa could be with me. He agreed and I had to call Japa on Emergency duty to Kolkata.

As much as every one may think that Japa is a sleepy head, he immediately sprang into action and packed not only his but also my bag and was off on the next train to Kolkata.

While waiting for Japa I paid a visit to the 3 fat Elephants they have at the Kolkata zoo. They looked so sad to me locked up in that little place with no shade and hardly a few meters to walk up and down. I prayed to Krishna to help them and make me better so that I can help more Elephants soon.

The next morning I was admitted into the ward of the Woodland hospital and prepared for the operation the next morning.

The whole procedure was done by a so called "keyhole" operation. They removed both, my appendix and my gall bladder. When I woke up from the anesthesia, Japa was right beside me holding my hand "hi mom!" he said. I wouldn't know how I could have done it without Japa.

After 2 days resting, I was discharged from the Hospital. Unfortunately the same day I came down with a fever which never seamed to wanting to end. Inspite of the fever and severe belly pain, after a few days we returned to Mayapur. The Pujari heard that I was not well and immediately preformed a special Puja in my favor to Lord Narasimhadeva. You want to believe it or not, but the same afternoon my pain and fever whent away! Sri Sri Narasimhadeva ki Jay! The Lord is so powerful.

However I am still struggling with the E.H. Amoebaiasis. Unfortunately the only Allopathic medicine against these cysts are on the List of no no drugs that are bad for porphyria.

Now i am taking only liquid diet and Sat-Isabgol (Psyllium Husks). I am also taking some B-vitamins to try to get my strength back.

OK, this is all for now. I hope not to have bored you too much. There should be some pictures of the organs in an E-mail coming.

Love,

Mama

Julien's Spring Break Visit

He was here for a week. We went hiking on one of the days.


Check out the album here (the last item is a video):
http://picasaweb.google.com/garuda.illo/SpringBreakJulienVisit

American Woman

I became a US Citizen yesterday March 24, 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii! I cried during the oath ceremony. It was a surprise that they did the ceremony the same day as my interview and test. When I took the test it was funny because on one of my answers the administrator didn't know if I got it right - she had to look it up!
Anyway, now I'm a naturalized citizen of the United States and so many of our travel and immigration issues will hopefully be behind us soon!

Mayapur Reunion

Hare Krishna!
It was a short but sweet reunion here in Mayapur.
This picture was taken the day Nandu was leaving. 

Japa had to be woken up for the photo.

Twins First 6 Months

I finally got my act together and organized some photos from the twins' first 6 months into an album. Click on the picture here or on the list of photo albums on the right. Enjoy!

Twins First 6 Months

My birthday

On my birthday Nama took me to watch Curling Olympic Tryout finals. It was pretty fun, even though I had never watched curling before other than that scene in "Help!" with the Beatles. Other the other side of that poster it said "Team USA" so I wasn't rubbing my birthday in everyone's faces the whole time.

I've added more pictures here.

Kona Weekend Trip

It has been wet and cold like this in our backyard day after day after day.... So we decided we all needed a vacation and when friends were visiting from Australia and New Zealand the weekend of Feb 20th, we decided to spend the weekend in Kona with them and get some much needed time in the sunshine!  We didn't take many pics but here are some, just click on the picture of our wet backyard...

Kona Trip

Sascha's crawling!

Sascha just started being mobile this week. In fact, it happened so fast that the day after this video was taken she fell off the bed! She is okay, but we removed the legs just in case for future.  She is fast! Here is how she got started... She's quite proud of herself - as are we!

I've enrolled in college

Hey, I just wanted to let you all know that I've enrolled in college finally. Its in Westwood College and I'm going to be doing Bachelors of Science in Game Art and Design. Wish me luck!