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This post is a Diamond created from a humble life of 75years please do Read it, Save it & Share it as it may help others in their Life Journey to Healthfulness from Harmfulness.
Valued Healthiness observed from a Real life Story of a 75+year Indian_Med_Doctor who overcame the odds of life of Pandemics, Academics, Social Marginalization, Racial Discriminations, Political Corruptions and Marital-Familial Deceptions to achieve HEALTHFULNESS to 75+years(Amrit Kaal) and counting more.
Insights from our Family Health_Life. “Lokam Samasta Arogyam Bhavanthu.” We wish for a Healthy world.
This Post is Dedicated to both my Double Doctor Parents, 2 Nursing Aunts and all the Healthcare Specialists in our circle who have genuinely served our familes and nation. We are grateful for the health service to in our society. They are Active and Healthy in their 40+ years of marriage and Familial-Wellbeing.
Contents:
1. Modern Threats & Risks to Family_Health & Community_Harmony.
2. My Father’s Heart & Home Health Journey since 1953 to 2023.
3. Our Insights on Healthfulness from my Doc_parents and their circles.
1. Modern Threats & Risks to Family_Health & Community_Harmony.
From being Risk-Aware and Trauma-Informed Health-Care we are moving and envisioning to be Risk-Preventing, Trauma-Healed & “Healthily-Reformed“. From Organic HomeoStasis to Systemic “OptimoStasis or ActivoStasis“.
2. My Fathers Health Journey: Dr. Gajendran Raman my Dad is a Pre-Independence Born child. He was born as the 5th child in a family of 8 biological and 3 more adopted siblings. Total of 11 kids in a joined family with one Bread winner Father.
Born and Raised in Bengaluru he Studied medicine at Bengaluru Medical College the best college of his time of 70-80s. Worked for the Karnataka Govt Health Dept as a Medical Doctor 25+ years 1980-2007.
He Credits becoming a Doctor to his Parents and Siblings who motivated and supported him for education. He is a respectful student of RBANMs and St.Josephs, he Visited Government Libraries for his studies. He later joined the British Library for Medical Studies.
He worked in Rural areas like Kudur, Anekal.. etc where he and his family if 3 wasn’t given houses by the dominant-upper classtes even though he was Government appointed health worker due to racial-casteism in these villages and he further served in dangerous risky medical hospitals like TB Isolation hospital where there were risk of epidemics and also high emergency ESI & KCGeneral Hospitals.
He finished his MBBS and DLO in 1976, he became a ENT Specialist. His Socio-medical Record and Family Timeline is Given below.
His Mother was a Diabetic died of Tobacco related cancer during his college days. He lost many studies due to grief and bereavement as he was emotionally close to his mom. Who made him spiritual and medical aspirer. He used to visit CMC Vellore for Cancer Treatment for his mom’s Throat cancer. Seeing the pain and suffering of his mom he also wanted to become a Doctor to help such cases. That’s one reason he took up ENT later in life.
He had hinself Hernia Operation at Victoria hospital as he became weak and thin.
He had been operated for Vasectomy and circumcision after marriage.
Corruption: At work He was asked to collect bribe from public patients in KR Puram Hospital, but he being a moral & honest official refused to collect bribe for which he was punished by transfer out of faraway district PHC. He fought legal case and with good help from an altruistic govt official Mr.N who became a Family Friend and he won back to proper place of re-transfer. He thus faced blocking by corrupt politician and officials from his own dept also at ESI. Cost of being uncorrupt honest official in a Corrupt and Biased System is hard.
He fought a legal battle against Neighbhours Site Encroachments into his site and rights in 2000 and also in 2021.
He was admitted for Heart attack and angioplasty in 2010. At Jayadeva Hospital operated by Dr.Manjunath, with 85% block in 2 arteries. He had Operated stent thank full to Dr.Das to fund the Operation.
He faced personal-stress of deaths in familes of close Brothers(Cardiac issue in Mallya, also Alcoholism) in 2007 and sister (family betrayal & elopement) in 70s, illhealth & death of Father & Father and Mother In Law (he loved them all).
He lost his close friends to heart attack of Dr.Venkatesh, and Dr. Subramaniam CGHS to Mistreatment of Natural Remedies. Thus everyone needs to know risks of Mal_treatment (Dur_Ayurveda and Su_Ayurveda). more Well_Informed Decisions = More_Safety & Ill_Informed Decisions = More_Risks. #4Ms of All-Life.
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He faced a third attack in 2014 after planned triggered fight by his abusive_daughter inlaw in house, who came in through online-matrimony marital fraud and initiated maritolegal-abuse with narcy Outlaws(her parents the targetsm’s Inlaws) with no morals or mercy on elderly.(Narcs on bother for Narc-Supplies and nobody else).
He had trauma & stress of 23year Son’s Sudden self Death due to Academics and substance abuse and undmployment stress in 2011. And adopted 19year daughter’s elopement-betrayal and social-suicide estrangement and elders abuse in 2019.
He faced false dowry case as R3 by narc daughter in law and alienation of Grandchild since 2016. Due to which third attack admitted in Chinmaya Mission Hospital Indiranagar.
In 2020 he and wife both simultaneously admitted in manipal hospital during Covid In ICU for 15days. We were guided by Doc Fraternity thanks to Dr.Swaminathan his BMC classmate and longtime friend. All our relatives and friends prayed for their recovery and supported. Visited by 2 relatives Jamuna aunty and Ramesh uncle in ICU. It was the scariest moment as both hubby and wife in covid wards and ICU.
He had depression and anxiety attack due to family court cases inlaws-fraud & sodium and vitamins deficiency in 2017. And only sons unemployment due to fraud fake-cases legal harassment and Grandchild’s Parental Alienation since 1 year child from 2015.
He was vaccinated with covaxxin both doses too. Both at Manipal Malleshwaram.
Thus in Conclusion: All these life extreme stress event he overcame and is still thriving at all odds. This is his resilience and inner strength that is what makes him my hero in life. He is an inspiration as a first Doctor in his generation, first person in family to Serve as government doctor to villages, first person among his siblings to cross 75 years. First person to be allotted & build an individual house. Today he became first person in our family and extended family to receive honors as a 75+ year senior citizen. It’s a acknowledgement for his spirit and strength for good, happy & worthy life.
3. Our Insights on Healthfulness from my Doc_parents and their circles.
Some Resources of Use where my Dad and our family got help. Sharing so others can get some benefit.
1. Authentic Allopathic Doctor giving Preventive Heart Care. My dad received heart care in 2015 from Dr.Bimal Chajjer from Science and art of Living.. it helped him recover. https://saaol.com/
2. He and my mother received healthcare advise session from Dr. Satyena Mantena Rao in Seshadripuram college Bangalore 2012.
3. He and mom went to Svyasa Yoga Naturopathy for a week in 2018 at Jigni. It helped them a lot. They have been to Ramaiah Indic Ayurveda center too for a short while.
4. Both my parents went for AOL course in 2016 did DSN under anandji at HAL auditorium.
5. They received physio-care from SPARCC institute by Dr.Kannan Pughalendi for Spondilytis and knee problems which was cured by guided exercises. Son too did the Health fitness coaching instructor course in 2019, which helped him get fit too.
4. Post covid We as family took Atma Darshana Yoga by Yogi Devaraj Guruji in Judicial Layout Bluru in 2021. They were recognized and voted as best couple among the participants. Here they are conducting a great annual event in 2023. Named Global Yoga Summit in Bengaluru.
https://globalyogasummit.in/. For more health msg & events: https://chat.whatsapp.com/5vxA8YuaUkLHIWHxkTB4Dd
5. Both of parents have been receiving seniors citizens annual health analysis from Center for Brain Research IISc. Since 2019. With blood test and brain analysis by Nimhans and IISc.
6. Both couples are active meditators participants in BhramaKumaris centers of Kaggadaspura and near home.
7. They have recently went for geriatrics care at M.S Ramiah Hospital few snippets below.
Note from HomeoStasis to Allostasis:
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/ayurvedic-diet
Sleep is vital to the rest of the body too. When people don’t get enough sleep, their health risks rise. Symptoms of depression, seizures, high blood pressure and migraines worsen. Immunity is compromised, increasing the likelihood of illness and infection. Sleep also plays a role in metabolism: Even one night of missed sleep can create a prediabetic state in an otherwise healthy person. “There are many important connections between health and sleep,” says Wu.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/nutrition/the-10-rules-of-a-heart-healthy-diet
Debias Mind, Detox Body, Declutter Home & Deescalate Society.
I have similar experiences with Native-medicines for jaundice Hepatitis..We tried allopathy for 2 weeks less improvement in hospital then took native medicine referred in Bengaluru by relative. Ate some herbal and It cured in 3 days.
There seems some gap.. that needs to be understood to reduce the inter Med-systems conflict and improve the Holistic-systems for public health.
Disclaimer.. I’m not a blind-believer nor a Blind-Skeptic of ayurvedic or alternative treatments. I know the risks of both mainstream modern Anglo medicine and alternative old Indic-medicines too. What I like to see & be is a Rational-Reliever of pains and a Rational-Skeptic of undue gainers.
Good Resourceful for Prevention: (GRP).
Our home was full of western med books and in our health journey we found that Indian knowledge system based medicine system too can help and now my parents being allopathy docs take a Synthesis Approach to healthcare taking the best of both Indian and Western System.. how it has helped them I’m documenting here for the benefit of the wider community and health. Today my dad got felicitated and I wrote this for this special occasion.
Acknowledgements: In all this I acknowledge the Contribution of my good four Grandparents in my parents lives.. Also of their Siblings and Relatives. My parents medical colleagues & Our Family friends all their support, blessings, love and care and affection has kept them and our family up and moving in life.
We are Ever grateful to all Organizations like Elders Helpline, Save Indian Family NGO, and all People of Bengaluru, this beloved city, & To The Supportive and Great State of Karnataka and TelangAndhra and Tamil Nadu which gave us beloved partner and Our Nation India.
Similar story of my mom how she overcame Knee Surgery and how she fights Arthritis.
S288: Surgery & Steroid Injections Avoided by my Mother in 2019: A Record of how she Healed her knee in 6 months?
My Mother herself a Doc her Contribution for my Fathers Health and welfare is Tremendous as she detected the First Heart Attack(which he mistook as gastritis) and sent in quick cardiac care at GM Health Indiranagar.
and Currently regular Checkups and annual folloupsa are being done weekly at Home with Janaushadi Glucometer and at KIER.
Thanks for the Guidance.. will update in the Anti-Heart Stroke, attack prevention resources on the blog page of Healthfulness..🙏🏻.
I have come to formulate that.. Healthfulness = Mindfulness +Heartfulness +Resourcefulness +Peerfulness. This is my personal Equation for Healthfulness_GRP.
If anyother health-resources found anybody plz do share.. I’m like aggregator of GRP.. Good Resources and Peers.
https://main.mohfw.gov.in/sites/default/files/Guidelines%20for%20Prevention%20and%20Managment%20of%20Stroke.pdf
Observe the “Eating & Efforting” habits of 4 beings I.e Pigs, Birds, Tortoise & Monkeys.
What we eat and what we repeat creates the body type like in the pig, bird, tortoise & monkey. Eat like a pig to look like a pig, Eat like a Bird to look like a bird. Even in birds the obese birds become like Dodo.
GRP_VCare2Dare 