Simplicty Versus Complexity: The bile juice story - Part 2

I will keep drafting this on my phone, and see how the day turns out. Will post when the day is over.

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1. A week has gone by, not eating fat, and not eating everything that mommy forbid.
2. We are ready to go collect the test results.
3. I do not have GPS. It's going to take me some time to find the doctors's place. She is not in her usual clinic today.
4. We have packed a hospital suitcase - two pair of clothes, lunch, toilette, make-up (tell ya, very important), and sweet goody bags for the nurses and docs.
5. If the bile level is still high, we will go straight to delivery room, and hopefully, will come back three. If it is not so high, we will listen to our doctor with patient attention and do as directed.
6. I am nervous.
7. We bump into our doctor in the hallway. Our faces turn into giant question marks. She is slightly shocked, and says, "I will see you in a while. Don't worry, your numbers came down drastically. Your son ain't gonna come today."
   
8. Then, we meet the doctor properly. We are happy, and after about 20 seconds, we are thinking of mummy and her advice as the doc says, "I haven't seen bile down this fast."
9. Then, the doc say, "However, we will still induce labour in a week's time. Your son is ready to see you."
10. Time set, Place set, and we will see our son next week.
11. Praying hard!

And oh yes! As we came out of the doc's office, we saw a huge mall across the street. Here we go shopping for all the nice baby clothes!

A deep breath!

Simplicty Versus Complexity: The bile juice story - Part 1

Virat Roop, the ancient infographic

In the Hindu scriptures, when Arjun the warrior prince on the battle ground sees that his opponents were once relatives, teachers, elders and family, he buckles and his will gives way. In that moment, his charioteer, the lord himself tells him of the absolute truth, and shows him an infographic called the Virat Roop. This infographic told him the ultimate truth, and prompted him to choose to do his duty. 

Several hundred thousand years later, I try to guess-summarize what the conversation might have been like. 

"O Lord! This is silly. Why kill dudes I love?"

"Look at the infographic!"

"What? Here?"

"Yeah! It's kinda scaled up. You will have to tilt your neck."

"This is cool but if you don't give me the executive summary, they gonna start firing at us in thirty seconds."

"Okay! Here goes: "YOU COULD CHOOSE THIS SIDE OF COMPLEXITY OR THAT SIDE OF SIMPLICITY"

"What does that mean?"

"It means - if you really crave heaven, go through the drill."

In my mind, the fable signifies just one thing. Simple is heaven. To have a simple life is heavenly. To kill complication is to attain Nirvana. Moksha is when you don't have to fill up forms for anything. 

Life, however, doesn't go that way. Pregnancy? Definitely not so.

I don't know if I wrote about it earlier but my wife had been taking some pills to counter an auto-immunity condition. This required that we do a liver test every six months. In the recent tests, we figured out that her bile acid levels are higher than normal. So high that it may be bad for the baby in her. So, we may actually have to induce labour right next week. Six days from today! 

What my wife does in these situations is what any right minded lady would do. She calls her mother. 

"Mummy, doctor says liver is not so well. What to do?"

"Stop eating rice, and any kind of oil, butter, or any fat immediately. Have Cranberry juice daily. I am emailing you a list of what foods you should start avoiding. And hey! Docs know shit! Get a test again before they shove your son out."

"Okay mummy, I love you."

Fingers Crossed!

United Hearts

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It's August! Already!

We are about a month away from seeing our boy!

Tonnes of stuff happened in the months gone by. Mostly happy stuff other than the times when she has to get up from the bed. Those are very unhappy times. Small little natural things have become exercises in themselves. Our parent friends sometimes say that it's only a beginning, and there is a lot more to come. We sigh!

However, there are many other things going on that doctors are putting us through. All for our good, of course, but it is a lot of things. The parenting classes, the several hundred types of insurance and other "I am not your responsibility" forms etc. However, of all of them, one experience is worth mentioning and sharing, and that thing is called "Stress Test"

by: Julietta Haynes

So here is the mechanics of it all. About a month before the due date, the uterus starts preparing for the moment of truth - the pushing on 0th birthday of your baby. The doctors need to test the stress in the belly because of all these things going on in there. So, they tie a belt around the belly of mom-to-be and measure stuff for a long time.

How it actually happens is pretty interesting too, almost divine and spiritual in some ways. We were taken to a room that was divided into several chambers using curtains. In each of these little chambers was an entire assembly of a computer and several things attached to it. Each chamber had at least one mom-to-be being monitored.

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They put a sensitive microphone to the bellies and listen for the heartbeats that come through a speaker. What you listen to in this room is the sound of heartbeats from over 15 different tiny hearts beating within the bellies of the mothers.

I might be getting a little bit ahead of myself but it was overwhelming to listen to several little hearts, all going at once, battling their way out to this big bad world of ours. It was insane, and it was a very spiritual moment for me.

Before I start crying, Love and World Peace!