A few days back, drastic temperature variations in Bangalore and sure enough little Nia fell sick. She had a terrible cough and found it difficult to eat. My latest stand in life - say no to anitbiotics - led to me treating her with some home remedies (details of which are saved for another blog). So while she was getting better (will never admit otherwise), it was a slow process.
So three days of being sick, nia was up almost all night due to coughing. With all the sleep deprivation, she woke up quite disoriented. As usual she called out to me but sounded different. When i went to her room, she was sitting up, wide-eyed and looking a little surprised, a little confused. Here's what she had to say:
nia: mamma the room is shaking
me: not it is not (and i hold her tight hoping it'd help - but it obviously didn't)
nia: it is mamma, IT IS! and what is that dum dum sound
me: sweetie there is no sound
nia continued to sit there still trying to figure out and me - i am all set to pick up the phone and call the doc. Just to check i ask her: has the shaking stopped kunju?
nia: no mamma, but why are we taking the whole house on the train? are we going to ammamma?
me: nia there is no train. it is our house baaboo.
and i just sit there - holding her, looking at her - and she still glances around all baffled, trying to figure it out.....
...when suddenly, all confusion from her face clears and with her ah-i-cracked-this-one look , she turns to me and says: now i know what it is mamma,its my heart drums!
beat on crazy drums!
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What a cute story! Really strange coincidence - sometime last week I could hear my heart thudding when I got out of bed, and I was wondering how old I might have been when I first started to acknowledge the sound. :)
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