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Those three children... (a heart touching story- must read) It’s a hospital story of Mehtaab and his friends. Mehtaab’s dad was a vegetable-seller on the streets of Kamathipura, the red light area of Mumbai. Mehtaab used to be admitted at least once in six months of my posting in the pediatric ward at Nair Hospital. Why? Because of his roly-poly body, bloated up like an orange with thick swollen eyes and chubby cheeks along with a protuberant abdomen. Even his skin was coarse. At the end of treatment, his balloon like body used to get deflated and he used to become Hardy from Lauren. He had nephrotic syndrome in which his kidneys were unable to manage water and electrolytes balance and his body used to swell up. Urinary tract infections or upper respiratory infections would precipitate the kidneys into water retention, so, every six months Mehtaab used to give regular attendance at our pediatric wards. In the hospital Mehtaab would be pampered and taken well care of. He would sit on his bed and watch other children play. He did not like mobility. It usually used to be a group of 3 people: Mehtaab like a king on one side with nephrotic syndrome as his crown, Rumella like a queen in between with aorto-arteritis as her realm, and Raju on the other side with Rheumatic heart disease as her domain. They were the three chronic visitors of our pediatric ward. Continue reading- flairwide/BLOG.aspx?TEXT_ID=28
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 11:45:15 +0000

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