One night in mid-February, I had a terrifying health scare. After something got stuck in my throat, I actually coughed up blood—which had never happened before. This triggered a severe, full-body allergic reaction with significant swelling. Since my father-in-law was already in the ICU, I wanted to avoid being admitted to the hospital myself. Instead of going to the ER, I called a doctor friend who guided me through taking anti-allergy medication and advised I see an ENT the following morning.
My son took me to a known ENT Doctor (who had done his surgery) and there was nothing unusual with the throat, except swelling. He advised few anti-allergy medicines along with a steroid and could not explain the root cause. This is where the problem lies - there is no answer to why, in English Medicine. They can treat you for what has happened but cannot resonate always why it happened.
And I am a strong critic of steroid and that brought me more trouble, the allergy was so severe that, it took out an entire layer of skin from my body, including hands, feet and the entire body. Ideally taking the steroid would have been a better decision, but sticking to my decision, made me pay a hefty price to go through a skin rebirth.
And in this entire process, which has spanned for more than couple of months, I went to several doctors, including AIIMS, the premium government hospital, to know the underlying cause and no one could tell me. I am a strong advocate of alternative medicines ( neuropathy , homeopathy) and have connection with a very good homeopathy doctor ( in her sixties who is now residing at Canada, and still consulting) and only she could diagnose this to be Anaphylactic shock, about which we had no idea previously. The allergy caused widespread swelling in the body and drove my Eosinophil levels to double the normal - that's a natural defense system of the body to catch the allergens.
Apart from many other personal challenges that's going in life, this was another big hurdle that I had to go through and I must tell you these difficult times have passed only with the help of divine touch that brought a lot of positive energies.
This was my new baby skin a week back and it was an entire different storm of life that has passed through, but it has taught me some valuable lessons - to be more patient and control my emotions with more focus on divine touch and accept the fact that "this too shall pass" - all life experiences—pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow—are temporary.
मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदु:खदा: |
आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत ||
The contact between the senses and the sense objects gives rise to fleeting perceptions of happiness and distress. These are non-permanent, and come and go like the winter and summer seasons. One must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
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