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  • Usha in front of a palm tree in her garden
    Choosing Joy Even in the Darkest Hour
    Usha Jesudasan, author and motivational writer, whose three children were on the forefront of Covid care with one of them contracting the disease, feels no matter what our circumstances, we can choose joy as a traveling companion during difficult times. Read her simple thoughts to uplift her mood. I’m flipping over the entries in my diary.  One line keeps appearing again and again – be kind and make a difference to someone every day.  This was the mantra that was drilled into me as a…
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    Practical Guide To Post Covid Recovery and Care
    Even when the Covid infection period is over, it can take time to regain your strength and feel strong and well. Here are some useful tips by Dr. Shital Raval Patel to ensure a full recovery. Post Covid care refers to the care that a patient may require after the period of infection. Most patients will recovery within their 14 day isolation period from the infection. Increasingly, there are cases of post-Covid health conditions which are termed Long-Covid or Long-haul Covid wherein a person may…
  • 12 Tips On Handling Home Quarantine and Lockdown
    As we move into varying degrees of home quarantine, stay home setting and lockdown, Shital Raval compiles a list of tips for handling this situation. As psychotherapist H'vovi Bhagwagar said in the webinar (video link below), its important to start with Acceptance of the situation.  The word “quarantine” first came into place during the Plague epidemic in Italy. But to be clear, quarantine and isolation are two different and separate things. Quarantine means confinement of individuals who…