If you’ve read my old posts, you would’ve known that I’d lost my degree certificates and applied for duplicates and finally got them after a long delay. Well a couple of days ago my mom called up and said that the originals were found in the house itself.Lol… it’s kinda funny, but feels good!!

What court case? As you know I got into my MD course this year. We sent in our enrolment forms to the University through our college and got a rude shock! They said they could register only half of us as the other half would have to be allotted via the common State Entrance exams! The matter had cropped up a few months ago, but it had been sorted out legally .. and now the Government was acting strange again. Our college administration took the matter to court again, and after a nervous 2 weks they relented and allowed us to enrol… Phew… that was close!

I cannot live without music…! I play music on an old rickety 80 watt boombox which I need to bash up once in a while to get the sound out!! Also connected a CD discman to it. And a couple of days ago, the discman refused to switch on!! I almost died 2 days without music. I did a little digging around and found that the AC adapter had burnt out. I didn’t want to go hunting for one and didn’t want to spend money repeatedly on batteries. I bumped into a friend today and asked him if he had an adapter. “Yes ” he said.. and I could borrow it… Sweet!! I dropped into his room and eagerly took…

After being out of Vellore for a year, it was good to be back at my church in Vellore. I prepared to lead worship on the 21st and it was amazing how God led me to choose the songs and the theme. We practised on the 20th and found that a few of the songs were not coming out well… but hey, we just left it to God and as expected He moved and the worship was wonderful. God chooses the available… not just the able!!

One of the delicate things that we need to handle is to ensure that patients pay their bills reguilarly. It gets worse when a child has expired or is being discharged against medical advice and they don’t have money to pay the bill. I’ve been on night shift this week. A child expired in the morning and the mother said she couldn’t pay the bill. The body, as per hospital protocol, is kept in the mortuary. She kept coming and weeping her story. Unfortunately I don’t have the authority to give a concession. Early in the morning when I called up the Head of the Department for something else, she enquired specifically about this case and then agreed to give…

Suddenly I found that my driver;s license was not there. I usually carry it in my pocket when I goto work and I found it wasn’t in the usual place I keep it when I started off to work. 3-4 days later… still no sign of it. Then today I gave my clothes to the dhobi and 10 kinutes later there was a knock on the door. There , he was holding my license and some other papers saying, ‘Sir this was in your shirt pocket!’. Lol… it saved me a lot of trouble!!Gotta learn to be more careful with my stuff.

Had to goto church in the evening to practice with the worship team. Took my bike and started zoming and splutterr… cough… drr…. she ran out of gas!! And guess where she stopped??!!! Right in front of a petrol station! Man… that felt wonderful!! Enjoy!! Thought for the Day: God not only orders our steps… He also orders our STOPS!(Read that somewhere!!)

Today we had a sick child who nearly stopped breathing and hence needed a ventilator (a machine that breathes for the patient). After I finished the procedure and connected her to the ventilator I noticed a lot of air beneath the skin in her neck. We took an XRay that showed some amount of air had leaked out of the lunk. We were wondering whether a tube needed to put to take the air out, but were unsure. I was about to call up one of the consultants to check, when the head of another paediatric unit who just glanced at the XRay and commented on exactly what to do… even when none of us had asked!!!! The consultant from…

I started off my MD course with a bang. … I was posted in the Paediatric ICU doing the night shift. I was a little nervous as I was a little rusty with critical care. Anyway the going was a little rough but I had no major probs as there were always people to help me. Missed a couple of IV lines, Struggled with an intubation, but also started a lot of difficult IV lines, arterial lines, etc etc. So praise God for allowing me to settle in without major problems!!

Drove down to Vellore with my parents and lotsa luggage. The road was a little twisted due to construction work, but we made it fairly well. Got a place to stay for them surprisingly easily. Had a blessed time at Church and then spent time with some family-friends…. very peaceful and encouraging.Now I’m all set to join my MD!