5th to 14th April

On 5th visited Center for Sight.Could not meet Dr.Dinesh Talwar. Visited SBI & collected fixed deposit receipts as also a banker's cheque for payment towards bill of Citi bank credit card. Steps taken to restore cell banking. Visited chamber from 2.00-3.45pm. On 6th again visited Center for Sight and met Dr. Talwar. He suggested OCT for Venita's eyes after 6 weeks. In SBI discussed refund of driver's SBI life policy. Ruchi and Venita went to West End market. On 7th could not complete 4 kms walk & did only 2 kms as I had to go to RML to meet Dr.AK Agarwal at 10.15am. Dr.Agarwal said that Venita's diabetes was under control.HBAC is high as it is 9%. It should not be more than 6%. It showed the average of blood sugar level during last 3 months. Venita was advised to take care and walk regularly.Venita admitted she could not be regular in her walks during last 3 months. In chamber from 11am-3.55pm. On 8th completed morning program without meditation, asans and exercises. Only did full pranayam and walk.Visited CGHS. In chamber from 12.30-2.30 pm.Accompanied grand children to the society parks.They were happy to meet a cat which is taken care of by the guards of the society. In the evening they went along with Ruchi to railway station to join others in journey to Lucknow where Dr. Prasad is to do Graha pravesh in the new flat taken by him.On 9th could not go to Bhagwati jagaran as I did not feel like going there.Venita was in the temple reading Ramayana. She has to finish complete reading of it during navaratris. On 10th went through the old personal files and destroyed quite a few not required now. Information about the death of the son of a maternal aunt of Venita was received. I had met him when he was at Gwalior. At the time of death he was at Bhopal where he had shifted from Gwalior quite sometime back. On 11th visited CGHS as also SBI. In chamber from 1.15-4.15pm. Visited Pradeep and Gita and collected medical papers of Yash. On 12th left for Mumbai by flight no. IA 865 at 10.15am and reached there at 12.15pm. Had steam bath. Sambhariya came. We had discussions. Thereafter we had a 40 mins walk at Worli sea face. Had dinner with him in Police officers mess along with his friend and families. On 13th Sambhariya and a DIG came on invitation for lunch. They left at about 3.30pm. Thereafter i went to Dadar to show the papers of Yash to Dr.MB Agarwal, a hematologist. Returned at about 9pm. Waited for over 3 hours in the clinic of Dr.MB Agarwal and thereafter only could meet him. The Mumbai Indians of the IPL have been accommodated in the rooms of the floor where I am also living. Quite often when I go out or come to the floor on way to my room I meet them. I have seen quite a few of them on the TV. But cant recognize. They are young boys full of life.
Dr. Agarwal advised to be patient in the treatment of Yash. The return of bone marrow is slow. the line of treatment being given is along the right lines. He suggested that we should give platelets to Yash only when they go down below 10,000. Other parameters of blood reports showed his condition as stable. On 14th had a steam bath. on way to the airport Sambhariya gave my diaries which I had left at his house on 12th. At the airport Anand and his newly married wife Shivali met me. She is a pleasent girl. I wish them good luck and Godspeed. The flight IA 888 took off over 1 hour late and reached Delhi at about 10.15pm where as It should have reached at 9pm. The aircraft was in horrible condition, food was below standard. Most of the occupants of a nine seater business class were free pass holders except a couple of us.Of the two of us only I had bought the ticket and the other was an air force officers travelling at Govt. cost. Retired to sleep at midnight.