My doctor auntie says Takayasu is called "pulse-less disease" here because it narrows the big arteries from the heart, like the *aorta*. They say Indian women get it more due to some unknown mix of genes and infections. But I see it in the women who carry the *ghar-ka-bojh*, the weight of the house and the heat of the fields—their bodies turning against their own strong hearts. My own neck hurts, and I felt a dizzy spell last Tuesday when fetching water, my pulse faint in my wrist, a silent alarm my ledger-keeping mind can't ignore.
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