Chris and Paula’s World

We have just returned from a trip to the hospital. We had to find a dentist for Chris as he cracked his molar. My theory is that it was cracked a while back in Tanzania when a soccer ball crashed into the side of his face. Anyhow, a piece of tooth came away from a filling in the tooth, and the filling/tooth was cutting into Chris’ tongue. The dentist said he needs to get a root canal and crown but that it will most likely hold together til we get back home. He grinded it down where it was bothering Chris’s teeth, and that seems to have helped a lot. The medical centre that we found was a part of Delhi’s Apollo Hospital, a beautiful hospital that would not be out of place in North America. What was amazing, was that we had no appointment, and 5 minutes after arriving, Chris was visiting the dentist (a young guy who could not have been 30). Good thing it happened now (in Delhi) and not as we head further north. We are learning that facilities are always better than we expect they will be. It is a major benefit to get out and travel, challenging all of the misinformed stereotypes that we have.

Today we are heading to Chandigarh. Apparently it is the greenest city in India. The whole city is a modernist design, designed by Le Corbusier. The city is on a block/grid system that divides into “Sectors” - our hotel for example is in “Sector 18″. We’ve been told it is very clean and modern. Will be yet another interesting contrast here in India. We’ll be there for 3 nights, then boarding a bus to Dharamsala!! Looking forward to seeing the Himalayas and feeling the change in temperature that a rise in altitude will bring.

Hope everyone is having a good Fall. We just saw that the temp in TO is 10 today and 13 in Vancouver. Sounds so good to me right now!!!!

Bye for now

Paula

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