Bypass Blues

No this is not a blogpost about the road or about my travels. Or
for that matter my travails, though I have been worried stiff,
sleepless and scared for close to twenty days now.

This blogpost is about my father who has recently been diagnosed
with a condition that makes it imperative for him to go for bypass
surgery. Which means that we have been doing the rounds of hospitals,
looking (or rather hoping) for non-invasive alternatives and
simultaneously doing the numerous things needed to get ready for
surgery.

All this while, my worries have dogged me and contributed to (yet
another) spell of silence here on the blog. In these intervening
twenty days I have read up widely on Angina, Bypass Surgeries, etc.
and also (naturally) on non-invasive cures / remedies such as
Enhanced External Counter Pulsation. All that I have learnt would
be of help to dad as advise meant to change his lifestyle for the
better, but (though I had fervently hoped for it) what he needs as
of now is a bypass. But then all this reading up and this increased
familiarity with the terms involved have helped the worries
are still there, if in a bit more subdued and benign form and will
keep dogging me till my father gets operated on, is back home and
through with recuperation and back on his feet, to be dad as usual.

Meanwhile, I will pray for the continued health of my father
and his blessedly friendly, solidly always there presence in my life.

Om Namaha Shivaya