{"id":315,"date":"2007-04-20T05:36:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T00:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/under-the-knife\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T08:31:43","slug":"under-the-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2007\/04\/under-the-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading the series of posts<\/a> on my recent tryst with spinal surgery, a friend remarked – You hardly wrote any thing about the hours spent \u201cunder the knife\u201d?!\u00a0 I promised him that that would be the subject of another post.\u00a0 No, this will not be a graphic description of the actual operation.\u00a0 In any case, I was under anaesthesia, and hardly aware of the details, except in theory.\u00a0 What I want to share with you, however, is how it has changed me\u2026 and Life, as I know it.<\/p>\n

Without exaggeration, it was a near-death experience for me.<\/div>\n
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The risks of not doing the operation were very real.\u00a0 There was a distinct possibility that even a bad cough or sneeze could cause Cauda Equina and I would be paralysed or incontinent for life.\u00a0 Not to mention, if things did not go as planned during <\/span>the procedure, there would be consequences too.\u00a0 There was always the probability of reaction to the anaesthesia, potential nerve damage, etc. etc.\u00a0 That\u2019s why, when I emerged from the Operation Theatre alive (even if not-yet kicking), I was thrilled!\u00a0 I would be able to walk on my own two feet, soon!!!<\/div>\n
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Now, until that day, surprising as it may sound, I had always tried to live my life with the Carpe Diem <\/em>approach\u2026 Always believed that Life was too short to waste a single precious moment\u2026 always tried to make the most of each day.\u00a0 But this experience reminded me of how I had perhaps become a bit – lazy – in my thinking and action.\u00a0 There were so many things I\u2019d been procrastinating on.\u00a0 I no longer attempted them with the urgency I once had.<\/div>\n
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As I struggled to regain my strength, day by day, muscle by muscle, I couldn\u2019t help but think – The time to do it is NOW!<\/em><\/div>\n
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Do what, you ask?\u00a0 Every <\/em>thing.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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All the things you put off for another day.\u00a0 All the things you postpone for the day you will have some leisure time at your disposal.\u00a0 All the things that matter to you – are important – but just not \u201curgent enough\u201d.\u00a0 I could not wait to get back on my feet again (no pun intended), to do all that\u2026 and more.<\/div>\n
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As soon as I was able to, I began ticking off my Life task-list, one by one :<\/div>\n
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  • Back up the data on my PC (yes, it had been a while!)<\/li>\n
  • Take Pumpkin to the park<\/li>\n
  • Cook!<\/li>\n
  • Create a photographer profile to share my work<\/li>\n
  • Call up old friends I hadn\u2019t spoken with in a while<\/li>\n
  • Watch the wedding video with the wife and Pumpkin\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
    The list would be endless\u2026 and, it still continues. But thankfully, I no longer need to remind myself to attend to the \u201cimportant\u201d stuff in Life.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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    Those two hours I spent \u2018under the knife\u2019 would do wonders for the rest of my living years, in more ways than one\u2026<\/div>\n
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    P.S. What\u2019s on your Life task-list?\u00a0 And, when do you intend to get to it?<\/div>\n\n\n

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    After reading the series of posts on my recent tryst with spinal surgery, a friend remarked – You hardly wrote any thing about the hours spent “under the knife”?! I promised him that that would be the subject of another post. No, this will not be a graphic description of the actual operation. In any case, I was under anaesthesia, and hardly aware of the details, except in theory. What I want to share with you, however, is how it has changed me… and Life, as I know it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}