Cervical Spine Compression Fracture

The day I remember forever. The lucky or unlucky 13th. It has made me a man in all. It has given me the enough time to strengthen my heart.

March 13th 2005 - the day I promised my B'Day treat for the most liked group of mine. The day Something happened to me physically and coz of which later I had the best times of my life. I donno when I would reach the happiest movement of my life.

We all had planned to go to the Tannurkere - Lake Tannur some 40 kms away from Mysore. Everything went fine till evening 5:30. Had a good tired swim for a couple of hours and amazing dives after a long long time. These were the good dives where the water was around say 100ft or more in depth. The time comes when people try to do some record. I have this craze to get shot the dive I do. I made arrangements for that and started to be a dolphin. All of a sudden I get this beautiful idea of running with all force and diving into. As I did that I couldnt imagine what was happening, I felt ithat I fell short. Before I could adapt to the change a shiver passed through my spine and back. Could imagine the natures creativity in building the human spine and back.

Next movement I was sitting with my hands on my head at The spot. The pain was terrible. The movements of my hands was temporarily out of order. And the depth of the water was less than a foot!! Yes less than a foot. After few minutes I tried to cleanse my head which had more sand than hair. Till now nobody knew what had happened to me. People were having the late lunch as nobody had eaten anything in the noon.

Out of water and started to feel the pain lot more. Tried to withstand the pain as much as possible, but it wqas so severe that for a movement I thought I was permanently disabled with my neck not in motion.

People didnt feel the intensity of what was happening to me. Later tried to climb the stairs with great deal and few tears in my eyes thinking of what people would say to the one responsible for this short trip, if my neck would have gone for a toss completely. Somehow managed to reach the main rd and thanks for the cloth arnd my neck, tied tightly by the doc of our grp, we could manage to reach the nearby village. Then had a pain killer and moved arnd. By the time Mysore was approaching it was bit Ok and so decided upon the treat. Had an excellent party with the stiff painy neck, back and shoulders. Actually I could not afford on losing 2 hours looking or being with The One as I had thought!!

Then later at arnd 11:30 went to the hospital just to hear the shock by arnd 12:30 a.m. that I had a Cervical Spine Compression Fracture of C5 vertebra!! And was admitted into the hospital for the first time that I could remember.

6 weeks of bed rest was suggested. Unfortunately the Guiness record is a fall from 25 feet high into the water of depth .5 foot but not vertcally downwars!!

will be back with more on my spending of time in this 6 weeks...

naren

My New Year 2005!!! 

Not bad at all 

Snow snow everywhere!!! 

Survival of mankind rides on the successful pickup line

Here is an article by Dave Barry....

So I was at this party, and I wound up at a table where three attractive single women were complaining about - Surprise! - men. Specifically, they were complaining about the pickup lines that had been used on them in a bar a few nights earlier.

One woman said: ''This guy comes up to me and says, 'Are you a teacher?' I mean, is that supposed to be romantic?''

All three women rolled all six of their eyes.

Another one of them said: ''This guy says to me, 'I've been looking at you all night!' So I go, 'Hel-LO, we just GOT here.'''

At this point all three women - and I want to stress that these are intelligent, nice women - were laughing. Not me. I was feeling bad for the guys.

I realize that there are certain hardships that only females must endure, such as childbirth, waiting in lines for public-restroom stalls, and a crippling, psychotic obsession with shoe color. Also, females tend to reach emotional maturity very quickly, so that by age 7 they are no longer capable of seeing the humor in loud inadvertent public blasts of flatulence, whereas males can continue to derive vast enjoyment from this well into their 80s.

So I grant that it is not easy being a female. But I contend that nature has given males the heaviest burden of all: the burden of always having to Make the First Move, and thereby risk getting Shot Down. I don't know WHY males get stuck with this burden, but it's true throughout the animal kingdom. If you watch the nature shows on the Discovery Channel, you'll note that whatever species they are talking about - birds, crabs, spiders, clams - it is ALWAYS the male who has to take the initiative. It's always the male bird who does the courting dance, making a total moron of himself, while the female bird just stands there, looking aloof, thinking about what she's going to tell her girlfriends. (''And then he hopped around on one foot! Like I'm supposed to be impressed by THAT!'').
Male insects have it the worst. The Discovery Channel announcer is always saying things like: ''After the mating, the female mantis bites off the male mantis' head, and then she and her girlfriend mantises use it to play a game that looks a lot like Skee Ball.''

Because I live in Florida, my patio is basically a giant singles bar for lizards. On any given day during mating season, I'll see dozens of male lizards out there making their most suave lizard move, which consists of inflating and deflating a red pouch under their chins. They seem to think that female lizards really go for a guy with a big chin pouch, but I have never once, in 14 years of close observation, seen a female respond. They just squat there looking bored, while all around them males are blinking on and off like defective warning lights.

Every now and then you'll see an offbeat TV news story about some animal, usually a moose, that has for some reason fallen in love with, and decided to relentlessly court, something totally inappropriate, such as a lawn tractor. This animal is ALWAYS a male. On the TV, they show it hanging around the lawn tractor with a big, sad, moony look, totally smitten, while the lawn tractor cruelly ignores it.

My point here is that, in matters of the heart, males have the brains of a walnut. No, wait! That is not my point. My point is that perhaps you women could cut us males a little bit of slack in the move-making process, because we are under a lot of stress. I vividly remember when I was in 10th grade, and I wanted to call a girl named Patty and ask her to a dance, and before I picked up the phone, I spent maybe 28 hours rehearsing exactly what I was going to say. So when I actually made the call, I was pretty smooth.

''Hello, Dance?'' I said. ''This is Patty. Do you want to go to the Dave with me?''
Fortunately Patty grasped the basic thrust of my gist and agreed to go to the dance. This was a good thing, because if she had shot me down, I would have been so humiliated that I would have never have been able to go back to school. I would have dropped out of 10th grade and lied about my age and joined the U.S. armed forces, and as a direct result the Russians would have won the Cold War.

That is the awesome power that you women have over us men. I hope you understand this, and the next time a guy walks up and uses some incredibly lame, boneheaded line on you, I hope that, instead of laughing at him, you will remember that he is under the intense pressure of wanting to impress you enough so that you might want to get to know him better and maybe eventually, perhaps within the next 15 minutes, mate with him, thereby enabling the survival of the human race, which believe me is the only thing that we males are truly concerned about.(I personally though dont agree with this).

In conclusion, let me just say to all females everywhere, on behalf of all males everywhere, that you are very beautiful and your eyes are like two shining stars, unless you're a female fly, in which case your eyes are more like 2,038 shining stars. So please give us a chance. And if you're not interested, could you introduce us to your lawn tractor? (This Last Para is For Dave Barry alone I suppose :) ).

Forgive me!!!

As the verse goes
Please forgive me.. I cant stop loving you

Thats what he does when in love... and here i sthe one from Rubal

You forgive me for liking you too much,
And I'll forgive you for not liking me enough.

You forgive me for missing you so,
And I'll forgive you for being so cold.

You forgive me for the loud racing of my heart,
And I'll forgive you for not hearing it.

You forgive me for playing your games,
And I'll forgive you for toying with my emotions.

You forgive me for finding you so attractive,
And I'll forgive you for not noticing.

You forgive me for raising you up so high,
And I'll forgive you for bringing me down so low.

You forgive me for wanting to be with you,
And I'll forgive you for avoiding me.

You forgive me for being so pathetic,
And I'll forgive you for taking advantage of it.

You forgive me for not being able to let go,
And I'll forgive you for never having latched on.

You forgive me for having hopes and dreams,
And I'll forgive you for crushing them

You forgive me for the ring I gave you in my love
And I'll forgive you for throwing it out

You forgive me for the sleepless night i have been thru
And I'll forgive you for the peaceful sleep you had

You forgive me for loving you so much
And I'll forgive your for hating me.

You forgive me for being so much passionate about you
And I'll forgive you for being so unresponsive towards me..

You forgive me for giving my heart to you
And I'll forgive you for breaking it.

They say that love seeks forgiveness so...
You forgive me for everything I did in love
And I'll forgive you for everything you did...coz I loved you.

Think this is written to her - who has played around with him and he is also the one who doesn't understand her!!!

naren

Mysore and mysoreans.

Though I spent just 4 years of my life in Mysore, whatever is told here is true. And I fell in love with this beautiful monumental place for just no reason.

"Mysore will not change. It cannot." says T.S. Nagarajan.

Its true. And yes am a fanatic of this place.

naren

Fire in the belly

Had been to IBM's some programme when I was in 6th Sem. There was this great prof by name Dr. Sadagopan S. He came to the dias and took just 10 minutes where in he inspired lots of people like me. If not I would have been there, I would have really missed something. There it sarted, the fire in my belly to do something inspiring , which is still in the process.

Today morning was reading the Education Times, a supplement of Times Of India - Bangalore Edition, where in I happened to gaze thru the article ">CEO@17. The great question mark nuked in front of me once again telling me how behind am I. People do have the desire to do something. And here I sit cribbing on me not doing anything of this high.

A RIDE TO THE WHIRLPOOL

We collegues decided upon our next venture to chunchi falls and mekedatu.

As by dear friend Dash has written a blog on this it doesnt matter much for me to write one on it.

But one thing is for sure- though very few people might understand this!
Missed my group, my trek group. Could see that responsible Datta in Deepak, my adventure mate or companion Giri in Biju, the pretty girls dancing arnd and enjoying by taking my trip was similar to you know who :)

Missed Deepu, Ranga, Sidda, Yogi, Mahesha, Vinu and all. No one can replace these ppl.

Overall was a nice one. Had nice time with Dash, Himanshu, Gokh. Couldnt succeed in overtaking Jins many a times. And Biju in his photography shot some water lilies on the way and also the admirable nature. Deepak in his Enfield, which even Prachi drove for some distance. If Prachi was dancing at the sight of the water fall, her roommate Richa was dancing all thru the way more on the bike, as she fulfilled her dream of driving the Yamaha entiser.

Overall had a nice time, even after watching a golden brown deadly legless reptile pass by a meter or two.

naren