Happy Halloween!!!

spooky...

Beauty of New York & Mother Nature

IR New York

Is it strange that I eat my dosa from the middle?

Brain Skew

Someone Cool Sent Me This! ;-)

The Business of Being Born!

SHOCKING?

25

Punjabi Cussing

Click

Beat Box-Nouvelle Star! --AWESOME!!!

AMAZING!

Navratri Celebrations on Newark Avenue, Jersey City

Today--I am 24 years and 11 months old!

One Month for the BIG 25; I have exactly one more month to live in what people call the better half of the 20s, as it is the most impactful period of your life! It's when most pick their career, their life-partner, where they want to settle, they start to take care of their parent's health and watch their own,and where they learn some of the toughest lessons about life! So before I get "OLD", I would like to ponder on what I have accomplished thus far in the first quarter of my life... Hmmm.. this is a tough one... I need some brain food... I have a big craving for Toblerone's individually wrapped assorted goodies!

MMMMMMM.... YUMMY!
Since I haven't celebrated my past few birthdays and was all alone, I need to make sure I celebrate my 25th Birthday BIG this year! It's one of those things everyone always talks about on your 50th! ;-) COME HELP ME MAKE IT A SPECIAL ONE!

Anyone seen my Cannon Camera?

I'm really missing it...

2/3 a Pediatrician

Post-call after a 30 hour shift... and I decide to come online... go figure... It was my last day on the Pediatric Floor; it was good but I'm glad I'm done with that! It's the parents that get to you more than anything else, especially when their kid is an asthmatic and when the floor is busy. So here I am 2/3 through, trying not to become stone-hearted after a month of holding down infants to start IV and PIC lines in their tiny little body parts and having to stick them over and over again to draw blood from virtually non-existent veins! Poor little infants, can't even do anything under my elbow, but cry. I felt like a monster going home after that! For one little Bangladeshi baby, we ended up going in on a vein in the forehead and tried to protect it by taping it down with the plastic covering of the gauze pads! It was sad seeing the kids with ALL, AML, and Rhabdomyosarcoma who have gone through months of chemotherapy and have no veins left unstuck or hair to keep their lumpy little heads warm! Seeing them, I felt lucky to have gone through a semi-normal childhood- healthy! These poor kids had barely stepped into the world before they had to fight for their life. We won't even allow them into the play room for fear of pathogenic organisms that live on our unwashed hands could ultimately take their life. One little boy who had surgery yesterday got a colostomy because his rectum had formed a fistula with the neo-bladder that was made from his small bowel after we saw stool coming out of the ileal conduit's urine bag that was placed on the side of his abdomen! What amused me most was the 8 year old who swallowed a AA Maxwell battery while playing with the remote control! I couldn't resist this one and had to put her X-ray on my blog! What an adventure trying to get it--ask me about it and I'll tell you! :-) Wonder what made her do that. She didn't even see the episode of Law and Order where the little boy tried to put a battery in his dead big brother's mouth hoping it would energize him back to life! Sad, yes I know!

You know what else was sad--The scenes from the movie, The Kingdom, where young boys in Saudi Arabia were being told that Americans are the enemy and they were being taught how to fire missiles and attach bombs to their pre-pubescent bellies! The movie itself had amazing cinematography; the direction and camera editing was fantastic! I loved the ending; though tragic, the way they paralleled the two worlds and showed reasons for animosity on both sides was excellent! My heart stopped when the little girl opened her hand at the end after taking the lollipop! A lot of smart people out there who know what sells and makes money but sometimes they do it because they know Hollywood is the best way to get a message out to the public! Hopefully, the goons in the White House will soon stop flying troops, who should be studying in college, out East hallucinating that they're showering confetti over the desert! Anyway, so much I want to say about this movie, but have to get back to la medicina--- sigh... swallow bombs or batteries, same difference, nah? Got the little girl's X-ray down below for a quick chuckle! What they watch on TV! She's 8! Anyway, next week I'm in the nursery and will be back in the ER--should be invigorating!