Waiting for Meds

The Kerala Medical System

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April 8th 2008
Prem is quite sick today, her hacking dry cough is still there if not worse. Her eyes are swollen and the left eye, tomato red! She had difficulty opening her left eyelids this morning, and it took about a minute before she could open her left eye, they were stuck. We had woken up early today, 5:30am, to go to Kollam for a backwater tour on a house boat starting at about 9:00am. Kollam is a ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more