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This is my last day at the hospital and I really don't want to leave.
To my mind this is a very comfortable place to stay. You feel protected and at home. People working here from masseurs to cleaning maids are very friendly and nice, always smiling and talkative. The only difference with the hotel is that you always have someone at your door during daytime: a girl comes to give eyedrops at 8 a.m., then the doctors go their round, the cleaning maids, a guy checking and supplying the medicines, a special guy who asks if everything is all right and goes well, a doctor may come in the afternoon to see if you have any questions and if everything is well:), physician who takes you to the treatment and sees you back to the room!, then at last it may be the room service from the canteen if you choose not to come down. The rest of the time you are left for yourself:)
Though doctors are reserved and serious here (maybe it's the way they keep the distance with the patients). The chief doctor is especially distant. Well, after all he is a conservative man from the south, he is the boss and he comes from brahmin caste. It is not the custom in ayurveda medicine and in India to ask the doctor questions - a patient looks at the latter with reverence and does what he is told. Doctor agreed to one patient's feedback that it's not the way to work with western people. They want to know how everything works, what's the effect and what are the perspectives. Despite this understanding they don't give the details unless you ask them. So one needs to be persistent in this matter.
You meet all sorts of people among the patients, from all over the world, from Australia to Canada. Many Indians who live in the US, UK and Canada - it seems that the place is popular with Indian immigrants. Also Indians from Kochi and nearby states. And it's not the seaside resort with casual collection of folks. Kak govoritsa nam est' chto povedat' drug drugu. It's a kind of special community here. I met an Indian woman who was born in present-day Pakistan, had to move to Delhi during the partition in 1947; now she lives in the US for 40 years and is involved in cancer research. Her words were: "you need to be true to yourself. Not just know yourself but live to be yourself and not affected by it. I try to do it and my age gives me the license for many things. But still I have a long way to go."
Another German woman told me: "You should be egoistic in what concerns you and your health. It's either salt or sugar. It's either 'yes' or 'no'. You build a wall and don't let anyone affect you."
Ayurveda is a lengthy process and if I come next time I should stay for at least 3 weeks. Now the organism is used to the regime and treatment and it is responding to it. But I cut it off. I gave up the idea of staying for another week and changing flight date - I don't want to spend my vacation days and piss off my boss.) Though I would gladly do it some time))
For the first 2 days you're still active, you are eager to do intensive yoga and so on and you miss friends or someone close. Then you relax gradually. Some days I even felt tired as if I was working the whole day. That's the effect of the treatment. By the end of the 2d week my brain is beginning to show signs of amnesia) - I forget to do this ir that trifle thing. I feel that by the end of 3d week I would forget my address and how the people in the office look like (kto eti lyudi i chto ya zdes' delayu).
In the whole it was a great relaxation, reading and thinking time and I hope the treatment will still bring some results that are not seen now.
Uletayu segonya nochyu. See u soon.
To my mind this is a very comfortable place to stay. You feel protected and at home. People working here from masseurs to cleaning maids are very friendly and nice, always smiling and talkative. The only difference with the hotel is that you always have someone at your door during daytime: a girl comes to give eyedrops at 8 a.m., then the doctors go their round, the cleaning maids, a guy checking and supplying the medicines, a special guy who asks if everything is all right and goes well, a doctor may come in the afternoon to see if you have any questions and if everything is well:), physician who takes you to the treatment and sees you back to the room!, then at last it may be the room service from the canteen if you choose not to come down. The rest of the time you are left for yourself:)
Though doctors are reserved and serious here (maybe it's the way they keep the distance with the patients). The chief doctor is especially distant. Well, after all he is a conservative man from the south, he is the boss and he comes from brahmin caste. It is not the custom in ayurveda medicine and in India to ask the doctor questions - a patient looks at the latter with reverence and does what he is told. Doctor agreed to one patient's feedback that it's not the way to work with western people. They want to know how everything works, what's the effect and what are the perspectives. Despite this understanding they don't give the details unless you ask them. So one needs to be persistent in this matter.
You meet all sorts of people among the patients, from all over the world, from Australia to Canada. Many Indians who live in the US, UK and Canada - it seems that the place is popular with Indian immigrants. Also Indians from Kochi and nearby states. And it's not the seaside resort with casual collection of folks. Kak govoritsa nam est' chto povedat' drug drugu. It's a kind of special community here. I met an Indian woman who was born in present-day Pakistan, had to move to Delhi during the partition in 1947; now she lives in the US for 40 years and is involved in cancer research. Her words were: "you need to be true to yourself. Not just know yourself but live to be yourself and not affected by it. I try to do it and my age gives me the license for many things. But still I have a long way to go."
Another German woman told me: "You should be egoistic in what concerns you and your health. It's either salt or sugar. It's either 'yes' or 'no'. You build a wall and don't let anyone affect you."
Ayurveda is a lengthy process and if I come next time I should stay for at least 3 weeks. Now the organism is used to the regime and treatment and it is responding to it. But I cut it off. I gave up the idea of staying for another week and changing flight date - I don't want to spend my vacation days and piss off my boss.) Though I would gladly do it some time))
For the first 2 days you're still active, you are eager to do intensive yoga and so on and you miss friends or someone close. Then you relax gradually. Some days I even felt tired as if I was working the whole day. That's the effect of the treatment. By the end of the 2d week my brain is beginning to show signs of amnesia) - I forget to do this ir that trifle thing. I feel that by the end of 3d week I would forget my address and how the people in the office look like (kto eti lyudi i chto ya zdes' delayu).
In the whole it was a great relaxation, reading and thinking time and I hope the treatment will still bring some results that are not seen now.
Uletayu segonya nochyu. See u soon.