I woke up yesterday morning feeling a bit rusty and grumpy.There were some irritations going on, on the back of my throat the day before and some couple of odd sneezes.But now the back of my throat is hurting like somebody trying to push a hot ball covered with barbed wire down my throat and everytime I try to swallow something, it sents a burning sensation to my mind.I am totally under the wraps of cold and throat infection.
Now I am the type of person whose immune system is as strong as frederer's powerful forehand serve and am generally not so much concerned about the viral airborne diseases.Even if a person fully under the clutches of common cold ,sneezing as frequently as ads during an IPL match,I will walk towards him and offer him my kerchief and forget about all the zillions of bacteria and viruses that might have entered inside me, either through the air when he was sneezing, or through the kerchief which I might use afterwards.
But it was one of the days when even the US defence bit the bullet, when two airborne planes brought down two giant mammonths in the blink of an eye and a nasty Nadal sent federer running for cover,that the defence system in me went for a leave of absence and millions of airborne cold viruses attacked me like the media does on finding Dhoni.
I didn' know when I became a host for these unwelcomed visitors.I remembered the day before, I went for a cleaning spree and dusted off all the dirts that have been sheltering on the computers keyboard,CPU and the monitor,the table underneath it.The "chajja' of the room had gathered so much dust that a couple of high powered vaccum cleaners would have a hard time cleaning it, and me with a half broken "jhaadu" with feathers lesser than hair on Sehwag's scalp, looked like mumbai police with their "lathis" up against terrorists with AK 47's and rocket launchers.But as the saying goes-"a bad workman quarrels with his tools",I was hell bent on my mission-"mission Impossible".
As soon as I puffed off the first layer of settled dust from my CPU,I let out a sneeze that could easily replace the roaring lion sound that MGM has trademarked.Covering the nose and mouth region with a handerchief, I was now an official dustbuster.Whatever came my way, was mercilessly terminated.This included 5 cobwebs (with 3 spiders) and 5 cockroaches.The cleaning job took more time then expected.After that I gulped down a chilled can of coke followed by a cold shower.
By the evening, the incubation period of the cold virus seemed completed accentuated by the cleaning,coke and shower activity,that the sneezing presented itself in full effect.
There are many people for whom every headache is a migraine,every stomach ache is a hernia and every Bobby Deol movie is a superhit.One such person is S.
S, seeing me sneeze,"Kya Hua?"
Me, blowing off my nose in the kerchief,"dont know yaar, seems like common cold"
S, not convinced:"I think it might be swine flu.Very common these days"
Me ,startled "cmon yaar, its just sneezes, nothing else, have taken some tablets"
S, sympathetically:"should not take risk,get yourself examined."
Me" why are you so sure that it cannot be the harmless common cold?"
S "Oh! i forgot to tell you ,yesterday I met Mukund who visited one of his friend in hospital suffering from swine flu"
Now I started pictuing his line of thought. The swine flu virus tranferred from the guy in hospital to Mukund, then from Mukund to this person and from this person to me.
Me , a bit petrified"but how come then you are fine?"
S, smiling" Oh! I think , my defence systems are strong I guess :-) "
I dont know whether its a swine flu,bird flu or any other animal flu I am suffering from.It seems a regular viral infection to me and hope to be live and kicking in a couple of days and start blogging again.
till then...aaaaaaccchhhhhhiiiiii.......................
Now I am the type of person whose immune system is as strong as frederer's powerful forehand serve and am generally not so much concerned about the viral airborne diseases.Even if a person fully under the clutches of common cold ,sneezing as frequently as ads during an IPL match,I will walk towards him and offer him my kerchief and forget about all the zillions of bacteria and viruses that might have entered inside me, either through the air when he was sneezing, or through the kerchief which I might use afterwards.
But it was one of the days when even the US defence bit the bullet, when two airborne planes brought down two giant mammonths in the blink of an eye and a nasty Nadal sent federer running for cover,that the defence system in me went for a leave of absence and millions of airborne cold viruses attacked me like the media does on finding Dhoni.
I didn' know when I became a host for these unwelcomed visitors.I remembered the day before, I went for a cleaning spree and dusted off all the dirts that have been sheltering on the computers keyboard,CPU and the monitor,the table underneath it.The "chajja' of the room had gathered so much dust that a couple of high powered vaccum cleaners would have a hard time cleaning it, and me with a half broken "jhaadu" with feathers lesser than hair on Sehwag's scalp, looked like mumbai police with their "lathis" up against terrorists with AK 47's and rocket launchers.But as the saying goes-"a bad workman quarrels with his tools",I was hell bent on my mission-"mission Impossible".
As soon as I puffed off the first layer of settled dust from my CPU,I let out a sneeze that could easily replace the roaring lion sound that MGM has trademarked.Covering the nose and mouth region with a handerchief, I was now an official dustbuster.Whatever came my way, was mercilessly terminated.This included 5 cobwebs (with 3 spiders) and 5 cockroaches.The cleaning job took more time then expected.After that I gulped down a chilled can of coke followed by a cold shower.
By the evening, the incubation period of the cold virus seemed completed accentuated by the cleaning,coke and shower activity,that the sneezing presented itself in full effect.
There are many people for whom every headache is a migraine,every stomach ache is a hernia and every Bobby Deol movie is a superhit.One such person is S.
S, seeing me sneeze,"Kya Hua?"
Me, blowing off my nose in the kerchief,"dont know yaar, seems like common cold"
S, not convinced:"I think it might be swine flu.Very common these days"
Me ,startled "cmon yaar, its just sneezes, nothing else, have taken some tablets"
S, sympathetically:"should not take risk,get yourself examined."
Me" why are you so sure that it cannot be the harmless common cold?"
S "Oh! i forgot to tell you ,yesterday I met Mukund who visited one of his friend in hospital suffering from swine flu"
Now I started pictuing his line of thought. The swine flu virus tranferred from the guy in hospital to Mukund, then from Mukund to this person and from this person to me.
Me , a bit petrified"but how come then you are fine?"
S, smiling" Oh! I think , my defence systems are strong I guess :-) "
I dont know whether its a swine flu,bird flu or any other animal flu I am suffering from.It seems a regular viral infection to me and hope to be live and kicking in a couple of days and start blogging again.
till then...aaaaaaccchhhhhhiiiiii.......................
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