Fight Against Diabetes

Have started swimming for the last few weeks. This is a new club that has come up on Southern Avenue in the relatively recent past. I have taken the 8:30 to 9:15 pm slot. My school friend Pradip Paul is a member there and organised the form for me for entry at a time when new member enrolment had officially stopped.  The facilities at the pool are quite decent for our city. It's of decent size and well lit. But more importantly it is just 600 meters from our house. They have two 25 meter pools. One is for novices and the other is for regular swimmers. We have around 25 regular swimmers in the pool in our batch. But thankfully, a majority of them stand near the shallow side of the pool and chat among themselves. The width is not much but we somehow manage without any major collision. From the shallow side we go up the left flank and come back down the right flank. I usually go for 4x2 laps every evening with adequate rest in between. When I started I could barely swim half the lap i...

I have been dealing with this pain on my right shoulder and arm for so long that I have quite forgotten when it started. A couple of years perhaps. I would wake up every morning with excruciating pain on my entire right shoulder, deltoid and arm. It would feel as if I had fought an intense battle the whole night. I would feel tired in the morning.  The range of motion was restricted for the shoulder joint and neck. Even reaching for the seat belt in the car was difficult. And I had almost come to accept it as part of my life. I thought it was the indirect result of my left wrist fracture sustained in February 2016. And it would go the moment the left hand was perfectly cured. But when after almost 3 years I realised that the left hand had become normal and yet the pain in my right hand was not going, I decided to take some remedial action.  Of late I have started winning the battle against the pain and minor disability caused by it. I want to write down what all I di...