Its so disheartening to hear yet another painful story of terrorism. This time its in a place where I've spent so many beautiful summer vacations of my childhood.. (South Delhi)
I remember very clearly going to Sarojini Nagar market with my mother and aunt several times in the 1980s and 1990s. A large part of my family still lives in Delhi and shops in this shopping area...
I hope India gets the courage and power to be able to stand in international forums, raise its concerns and take proactive actions like US does today..
Monday, October 31, 2005
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Wisdom Teeth Removal: My experience
I was born and brought up in India and I'm 26 yrs old. You might be surprised but dentists in India never recommend to remove your wisdom teeth. Infact if you were to tell people from India that wisdom teeth should be removed they will be rather surprised.
Here in the US, its quite different and its commonly accepted that wisdom teeths must be reomved when you ar 18 or so. Here every dentist you will see, recommends to remove all of your 4 wisdom teeth. Infact insurance companies also support them as they know that later in life there might be more issues because of having them..
A few weeks back, I started having pain at the very back of my mouth. Yeah it was one of my wisdom teeth. After bearing the pain for a few days, I decided to see a dentist. I knew in advance what was going to be suggested to me . " Remove your wisdom teeth" and I was OK about it since about 2 yrs back I was recommended the same for my other wisdom teeth. On that occasion, I didn't remove it, took some pain killers for a few days and it has been OK ever since.
I picked the dentist after a lot of research and told myself to trust her judegement. After doing a panoramic X-ray, she diagnosed that my lower right wisdom teeth was partially under the gum and also a little slanted. She said it needed to be removed. Infact she recommended that both my lower wisdom teeths needed removal and recommeded me to an oral surgeon.
I was in pain and needed something urgently.I didn't have time to researh on the oral surgeon and hoped that the dentist was recommending me to a good one.
The surgeon told me that 3-5 days will be painful. But I had no idea what I was signing up for. After the surgery which lasted about 1 hr, next 2 days were kind of OK. I even went to work . The 3rd day was beginning of me experiencing the most terrible pain I've ever had in my life. I was taking Vicodin ever 4 hrs but pain wouldn't go away. I couldn't sit, couldn't sleep, couldn't do anything. I needed icepack continuously. The minute icepack would melt, I'll again be terrible. The next two days didn't spare me at all. When on 6th day I saw no signs of this pain leaving me, I went to the surgeon..She said it was normal... Normal ??? Huh???
She filled the two extraction locations with something that numbed it and for the first time in about 4 days, I'd some relief. But this was the first time I learnt something new... She told me only 80 percent of pain will go away at the end of 2 weeks....and it would take another 1 weejs for another 10% of pain to go away...and about 1 months for it to be back to normal... I was shocked.....
My expectations were not set to these....Nobody told me I'm signing up for a continuous pain which will last as long as a month....
Before my wisdom teeth removal I couldn't find any relevant info on the web.. I hope people benefit from my expereince. I'll also be happy to answer any questions from my experience.
Here in the US, its quite different and its commonly accepted that wisdom teeths must be reomved when you ar 18 or so. Here every dentist you will see, recommends to remove all of your 4 wisdom teeth. Infact insurance companies also support them as they know that later in life there might be more issues because of having them..
A few weeks back, I started having pain at the very back of my mouth. Yeah it was one of my wisdom teeth. After bearing the pain for a few days, I decided to see a dentist. I knew in advance what was going to be suggested to me . " Remove your wisdom teeth" and I was OK about it since about 2 yrs back I was recommended the same for my other wisdom teeth. On that occasion, I didn't remove it, took some pain killers for a few days and it has been OK ever since.
I picked the dentist after a lot of research and told myself to trust her judegement. After doing a panoramic X-ray, she diagnosed that my lower right wisdom teeth was partially under the gum and also a little slanted. She said it needed to be removed. Infact she recommended that both my lower wisdom teeths needed removal and recommeded me to an oral surgeon.
I was in pain and needed something urgently.I didn't have time to researh on the oral surgeon and hoped that the dentist was recommending me to a good one.
The surgeon told me that 3-5 days will be painful. But I had no idea what I was signing up for. After the surgery which lasted about 1 hr, next 2 days were kind of OK. I even went to work . The 3rd day was beginning of me experiencing the most terrible pain I've ever had in my life. I was taking Vicodin ever 4 hrs but pain wouldn't go away. I couldn't sit, couldn't sleep, couldn't do anything. I needed icepack continuously. The minute icepack would melt, I'll again be terrible. The next two days didn't spare me at all. When on 6th day I saw no signs of this pain leaving me, I went to the surgeon..She said it was normal... Normal ??? Huh???
She filled the two extraction locations with something that numbed it and for the first time in about 4 days, I'd some relief. But this was the first time I learnt something new... She told me only 80 percent of pain will go away at the end of 2 weeks....and it would take another 1 weejs for another 10% of pain to go away...and about 1 months for it to be back to normal... I was shocked.....
My expectations were not set to these....Nobody told me I'm signing up for a continuous pain which will last as long as a month....
Before my wisdom teeth removal I couldn't find any relevant info on the web.. I hope people benefit from my expereince. I'll also be happy to answer any questions from my experience.
Do cell phone companies really want to succeed?
My wife had a cell phone with ATT for the past 4 years (a CDMA one) with 1000 nationwidew minutes for 39.99/mo. I'd a cell phone with ATT as well (GSM) for past 1.5 years with 450 nationwide minutes for 39.99/mo. Recently I wanted to have the ability to rollover my minutes and she wanted a newer phone as her's was an older phone.
We started shopping online and came across Cingular's shared family plan and the deals for Motorola Razor v3. The phones were free after mail in reabate for a 2 yr contract term and the plan consted 89.99/month with 1400 shared minutes. Looked like a great deal- both of us get new phones, decent number of minutes with bluetooth headsets.
The only big deal for both of us was that we wanted to keep our old numbers.
Now starts the trouble. We complete the online application on a1wireless.com and provide all the details about porting of number. After completing the online application, in a few hours the status of application says that we need to call and additional information is required. I call the number which goes to a call center in Mumbai, India. The lady tells me that for porting of one of the numbers there is no fee, but for porting of the other number , we need to pay a $59.99 fee. I asked WHY to which she had no answer .
Except for saying that ATT has merged with Cingular and this is really not porting but migration and that Cingluar decides what the migration fees should be for different numbers, she didn't have any concrete answer.
Well I cancelled my order and am wondering who won in this situation? I didn't as I got frustrated at the end of the experience as well as felt a little cheated. Why did they not write on the webpage itself that there will be a fees if you had a cell phone with ATT before and try to buy the Cingular phone now.
But I feel in addition to me losing time and money, Cingular cost 2 customers who could have been promoters of the product and service had the experience been better. Was $59.99 really that big a deal for Cingular for losing two customers and associated positive word-of-mouth.
Are these cell phone companies really setup to succeed? Do they really want to succeed?
We started shopping online and came across Cingular's shared family plan and the deals for Motorola Razor v3. The phones were free after mail in reabate for a 2 yr contract term and the plan consted 89.99/month with 1400 shared minutes. Looked like a great deal- both of us get new phones, decent number of minutes with bluetooth headsets.
The only big deal for both of us was that we wanted to keep our old numbers.
Now starts the trouble. We complete the online application on a1wireless.com and provide all the details about porting of number. After completing the online application, in a few hours the status of application says that we need to call and additional information is required. I call the number which goes to a call center in Mumbai, India. The lady tells me that for porting of one of the numbers there is no fee, but for porting of the other number , we need to pay a $59.99 fee. I asked WHY to which she had no answer .
Except for saying that ATT has merged with Cingular and this is really not porting but migration and that Cingluar decides what the migration fees should be for different numbers, she didn't have any concrete answer.
Well I cancelled my order and am wondering who won in this situation? I didn't as I got frustrated at the end of the experience as well as felt a little cheated. Why did they not write on the webpage itself that there will be a fees if you had a cell phone with ATT before and try to buy the Cingular phone now.
But I feel in addition to me losing time and money, Cingular cost 2 customers who could have been promoters of the product and service had the experience been better. Was $59.99 really that big a deal for Cingular for losing two customers and associated positive word-of-mouth.
Are these cell phone companies really setup to succeed? Do they really want to succeed?
Thursday, October 13, 2005
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