Year 2000: A Memoir
Year 2000 A Memoir It was a chilly day in the first week of February 2000, when my parents returned home with downcast eyes and troubled faces from The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. My amma had not been keeping well for some time. She was suffering from excruciating pain in the hip bone region. The doctors at AIIMS had diagnosed her problem as Tuberculosis in the hip region of her body. Earlier in 1999, a nincompoop doctor from a well known nursing home at Chennai had handed over a wrong diagnosis of arthritis to my mother and had given her anti-inflammatory medicines, which my mother did not fail to consume regularly but to no avail. Appa said that he was taking amma to Chennai for treatment. We all agreed that it was the most logical thing to do. After all, Chennai had warm weather and there would more family support available to my mother. We realised that the winter weather of Delhi had almost killed her. My mo...