Friday, April 1, 2011

Bleakness in Summer...

A year ago, I was under the impression that nothing could be bleaker than the endless winters of Cleveland, Ohio. The bitter cold and grayed out sunless skies that would last for days together gave you this eerie feeling of being buried alive. Until today...
The doctor tells me that my problem is inability to adjust to this climate as the temperature's steadily soaring...he gave me more medications and advised me to take it slow, stay home, drown myself in drinks (the non-alcoholic kind!) inside and out and stay out of the sun...
So, essentially he is telling me I am going into a decline because of the heat and I need to spend the next how many ever days mollycoddling myself...if that means till the end of summer I am dead...From the endless winters of Cleveland to the endless summers of Ahmedabad...What a life!! Be careful what you wish for dearies, all that wishing for sunshine that I indulged in over the last few years in the US has been granted me with one big bang right now and boy does it hurt!!
So the next few months I am scheduled to stay home...and do what else? Read myself blind I suppose! I felt buried alive in Cleveland but I am truly buried alive here...Hmmmm maybe it's time for me to get out of here....Can't believe that the land I grew up in is turning against me with a vengeance...sighhh....

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6 comments:

  1. Wow, that is too cruel. Here I am living one hour from Cleveland and we have just pulled out of another gray and dreary winter—or, at least, the snow part of it. We did get a few days of glorious sunshine, but we're back to gloomy skies again.

    I really feel for you with that climate adjustment. I hope the doctor has some good news for you . . . that this will eventually pass as your body becomes accustomed to the heat again! I fervently hope that for you.

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  2. Thanks Milli...I am hoping this will pass quickly too...

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  3. Argh, that's so hard! I'm so sorry you need to go through this and then on top of it wonder (like I would) if it's a "be careful what you wish for" scenario. Thinking of you from way far away, hoping that when you read this, things are at least a little better! Cheers, Julia

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  4. Thanks Julia...things seem to be getting better...just hoping this will last!
    Roona

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  5. Hi Roona,

    Haven't seen any posts from you recently. Hope you are alright. Take care.

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  6. Hi Debjani,
    Thank you for asking. I am doing ok, just preoccupied trying to survive the summer and dealing with a few other things.
    Roona

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