You probably felt your tummy churn when you read that … but lemme go ahead with what happened today! After a quick trip to Chennai to see off my sister on saturday, a tired sleepless night journey back to Vellore, an admission sunday duty that left me with little sleep, I entered the admission day and OPD running on adrenaline and a steady supply of coffee. Admissions kept coming in regularly. Then things almost collapsed when 2 sick children came in. One was a child with blood cancer who came in with uncontrolled bleeding. She unfortunately died inspite of all of us struggling. Then we had a child who had near-drowning and needed ventilation. Thanx to a colleaugue Nisha who…

Just before leaving home I had left some stuff in my friend’s room and assumed that my stethoscope was also there. I dropped into his room before work and found out I was wrong. After hurriedly borrowing my friend’s steth I continued to work. There… another thing lost. I forgot about it till the next day. I was doing rounds in the ICU. I picked up a chart and was scanning through it sitting on the table and bingo! there was my steth right next to me. I’d left it in the ICU before and after going all around the place someone had left it on the table. Another sigh of relief!

Today was a very special day. My sister got engaged today. J and S had planned a simple but prayerful ceremony with lots of relatives and friends. They had specially planned out a testimony, songs etc to glorify God’s name and it was wonderful. I was the master of ceremonies and enjoyed God’s presence. In fact, everybody felt God’s presence. Every step of her engagement was miraculous and I’m sure she’ll testify to it.  Praise God for a Blessed Day!!

oday I decided to try and get my Learner’s License. I was on leave from today and had to come to Chennai. Managed to squeeze in the license before that! Feeling quite impressed with it.Now for the tough part… getting the time to learn driving and go for my license!

Today a representative from the MEdical Council of India came by to check the hospital and see if we were eligible for more PG admissions. It went on well. I was in ICU when he came and we had an uneventful time…. Praise GOD

We’ve had this child named Janani in ICU for quite a few days now. Janani is not an ordinary child. Like most others in ICU she is sick and fighting to stay alive. Unlike many other children, Janani has never been a normal child. She has severe cerebral palsy. At 11 years of age she has severe microcephaly (very small head). Her limbs are bent and folded. She stares vacantly. Her back is twisted. She has to be fed by her mother. She can’t even sit up in bed by herself. And now to make things work she’s been admitted with a bad pneumonia. She needed artificial respiration with a ventilator for a couple of days and although we took…

Today India beat Pakistan and won their first series of Test cricket in Pakistan after a loooooong time. Just felt excited about it!!!

I needed to buy a few stuff like an AC adapter for my discman and a shoulder-strap and some picks for a guitar.It was kinda fun… no good deals but I got what I wanted.

I finished work at about 8:30 PM today and after dinner simply decided to drop into the ward again to check out a couple of things. My friend called me from behind… he was armed with a book and a pen. And hmm… informed me that we had a class at 10 PM (yes we medicos have unearthly hours of classes!). I’d almost missed it because I didn’t know about it. Thank God for the timely reminder!

Finished a night duty and came back to the room an hour before church began….and unbelievably dozed away. Almost magically I woke up in half an hourand managed to rush to church on time!And that wasn’t all!! I came back from church and still had an hour to get back to work…. and ….. you guessed it! I dozed off again! And magically I woke up on time to have a hurried lunch and rush to work, a little late!! Hmm… God watches over you and cares more than you can ever think!!