For sale

Five days after I finished the transplant surgery clerkship, today I saw this picture in today’s issue of khabrain. It reads: kidney for sale, group A+. Whether one should resort to selling or buying organs is ethically debatable, but from a practical point of view, one may have a spare kidney and a spare eye [...]

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Protected: Pablo part 2

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My heart

My heart, as C would say, “is in the acid of my stomach.”
I just can’t handle the stress. Today was the first day of pediatrics & all I thought was about how miserable I am now and how happy I could have been if I didn’t have to makeup for my medicine exam. Both peds [...]

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Reads

I just found out that my fifteen library books are due today. I have not had a chance to read them all, let alobe write about them. So here’s just a brief list.
**I think there’s a terrorist in my soup by David Brenner — funny, but not really my type of humor. Didn’t make me [...]

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Disappointed

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain. Read on a piece of jewelry at the [...]

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Hot milk with Ovaltine

This is my last week on transplant surgery. AlhamduLillah. I have had it with this rotation — I better pass the final exam because I cannot think of going through surgery ever again in my life.
Today was just another day, when I spent over fifteen hours at the hospital. I was hungry all day. Dr. [...]

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Protected: I wrote

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Yessss!

I have started believing in God again!
I went to the mall today to look at some clothes. I have always had a hard time shopping for pants. I blame it on my (lack of) height and my weight. But today I found two perfect pairs of pants, one in brown and another in gray. They [...]

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You

I haven’t heard a song by Bosson whose lyrics I don’t love. Here’s you:
You, you make all my dreams come true
Another time, a lesson learned
Another one, I crashed and burned
But I believe there is someone for everyone.
A small café and lots of noise
A crowded place but just one voice.
And from that moment I saw your [...]

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Home

Home is where the heart is. — WM, the intern on transplant surgery, on being asked if he got to go home at night.

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Because nice matters

I had my second and last oral exam for the surgery rotation today. AlhamduLillah it went well. As soon as I entered (with my cup of water & a small cup of yogurt as lunch — I was under the impression that the exam started at 1:30, I just showed up at 12:55 so I [...]

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Tiramisu

As I am under stress, I crave something sweet. A slice of Tiramisu. Not just any Tiramisu, the cold one C & I had at Olive Garden. Only that one will do. I don’t want to get out of my apartment, and there’s nothing sweet at home. I could gulp down a couple of teaspoons [...]

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Random things I heard this week

** Surgery resident from Kenya: Man, these zoos in America are fooling you. They show you sissy elephants. Come to Kenya to see real elephants. The elephants in America are like cows!
** Go over, go under, go around, go through, but never give up.– a picture & quotation in the hospital’s transplant ward hallway
** You [...]

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Dagger

Lack of time and overflow of personal problems has prevented me from from writing anything thoughtful lately. I just read a news piece about the personal gold dagger of 16th century Mughal emperor Shah Jehan being auctioned. I hope it was someone from Pakistan or India who bought it. Some things may be the world’s [...]

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Sitara in gardish

With so many things going wrong with so many people in the family, Haiqa has been telling me, “hamara sitara gardish mein hai” (our stars are not aligned right). Today, she e-mailed me saying that she has confirmation of the sitara being in gardish because a very good Middle Eastern restaurant close to home has [...]

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I wish…

… I had Daddy’s optimism. Something Haiqa said reminded me of what he used to say: “Betay exam se nahin dara kertay, darna hai to result se daro.” I love my Daddy :)

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Problem

I have run into a huge problem. I was walking over to the library today when I saw Dr. S at the coffee stand. He was happy to see me. As he hugged me, I just blurted out, “I have a problem.” He had made the payment, but instead of waiting for his coffee, he [...]

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Sigh

I talked with C today. We talked about what he did all day, how my transplant surgery rotation is going, a scandal about a particular administrator at the med school, movies, jogging…
C: When I come back I will have to work out a….
I (thinking he’s going to say how he’s going to work out things [...]

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If you can’t

“If you can’t stand the heat, don’t tickle the dragon.” — on a renal transplant patient’s t-shirt, leaving for home
“Don’t let the car fool you, my treasure is in heaven.” – on a car

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God is what you have in your mind

Seeing is one thing,
looking is another.
If both come together,
that is god.

If you look for an elephant,
he comes as an elephant.
If you look for a tree,
he’s a tree.
If you look for a mountain,
he’ll be a mountain.
God is what you have in your mind.

If you look for empty space,
he appears as space.
If you look for an ocean,
he’ll [...]

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