I was a sickly child. I used to fall sick often enough I took
a lot of home remedies, ayurvedic medicines in addition to the normal allopathic
medicines. I would fall ill every monsoon and my parents would be always remain
worried about my health. Obviously I felt singled out by God especially because
my brother was blessed with amazing health.
But all those years of being ill has had an amazing positive
to it as I have become a dad. I can’t better relate to Jispa when she falls
ill. I know what happening to her, what’s wrong, what’s the issue, what
medicine can do what. I wrote before about how I know how to hold her if she is
vomiting. Where exactly do you want to be comforted? How can Jasmine ever know?
She has hardly ever vomited.
In office today people were talking about some ear infection
and how to solve it. Oh that’s simple. You take your first pee in the morning
and put a few drops of it in your ears. First pee? Had I lost it?
As a child one of my recurring complaints was a ear
infection. Even today I think I have some remnants of this. In a smoke filled
room like a pub or a bar (before the smoking ban) my ears would hurt. Even today
when the AC vent in the car points at my ear, after sometime it starts hurting.
As a kid my Ayurvedic doctor treated the ear infection by advising my dad to
put a few drops of the first urine of the day in my ears. Embarrassing as it
sounds, it worked like a dream.
Since Jispa swims so much, last to last year she got an ear
infection. Jasmine went to the ear specialist who put some medicine in the ear
and bandaged it and asked Jispa to stop her swimming for a few weeks. It went
away. Last year when Jispa complained of ear ache, we realized she had an
infection in the ear again. She couldn’t afford to miss two weeks of training.
I suddenly remembered by childhood and told Jasmine that my dad would put a few
drops of my first urine in my ear. We tried that on Jispa for a few weeks and
voila… infection gone. All you have to do is put a few drops in your ear in the
morning and then sleep a few minutes while it’s in, then put some cotton and go
about your life.
Jispa did not even miss a day of training this year because
of an ear infection, thanks to this remedy.
Moral of the story - You may be in shit for now, but who
knows – when you grow up you might benefit from being in shit for now. In ways
you can’t even begin to imagine.
