What gives

Some moments are special.It brings us a reminder of the precious moments in the life of Christ.Today was one such time.The sharing from believers about the recent happenings in and around the place was concluded by encouragement to stand firm in Christ.One moment one of the pastors put forward direct questions to the congregation about their commitment was the situation to change dramatically,the congregation answered they would stand firm. To me it brought a poignant reminder of my master in the last days of His ministry on earth.His questions to Simon Peter which Simon Peter in flesh responds to with a zest but as Jesus predicts denies Him thrice and he cries bitterly when Jesus looks at him.Compared to that was a later time ,after the crucification when Jesus appears before His disciples when Jesus asks Simon Peter,'Peter ,do you love me?'Peter is more mature,knows himself better and answers with a depth of maturity. When Jesus looked at them as individuals I am sure they...

Apart from the array of medical cases I have been seeing the time is come with it's own set of challenges.Yesterday was a difficult day.Early morning ,a lady was brought into the casualty screaming in pain.She was in the 32nd week of her pregnancy according to the LMP but was 35 weeks as per the ultrasound.She had delivered a premature baby by caeserian section just a year and half back,all of one and half KGs.She had severe scar tenderness and the relatives were insistant we go ahead with the C-sec ,they were willing to take the baby to a paediatric care post-delivary was there a problem.The USG weight of the baby was 2 and a half KGs .Just after we consented to do the surgery we found out that she had not had any blood tests done and was an unbooked case. We did the tests and did the surgery as well.It was a tough surgery with old scars but the baby was healthy and cried lustily at birth.However while we proceeded to close the abdomen the baby started grunting.So we called the r...

Medical cases I have been bumping into in the out-patient. 1.Systemic sclerosis. 2.Rheumatoid arthrites-mismanaged outside on steroid abuse. 3.Craniovertebral anamoly with fusion of the first three vertebraes and presentation with symptoms akin to cervical myelopathy. 4.Florid AR with all the peripheral signs. 5.Interstitial lung disease . 6.Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, 7.Acyanotic heart disease with early eisenmenger's. 8.Peripheral artery disease with ABPI of 8. 9.History suggestive of recurrent arrythmia probably VT. 10.Diabetes Mellitus with ketoacidosis. 11.Snake bites and more snake bites. 12.Bronchial asthma. 13.COPD. 14.Bad tuberculosis -lost four patients with TB so far. 15.Lots of Neurocysticercosis with focal seizures. 16.Regular diabetics with uncontrolled sugar. 17.Hypothyroidism. 18.All sorts of fevers. 19.Pyogenic meningites with seizures in paediatric age group. 20.Severe incompletely worked up anaemias. 21.Stroke, 22.Hypertension,primary. ...

The time for testimony was going on in the church.There were beautiful testimonies shared by different people.They touched my heart.One particular testimony brought me to tears.It was a lady who got up from her seat in the back row.She shared about life without men in her house.They were away in the city.A wave of rainstorm came the last week .She had some crop which were out in the open and she had no space to shift them in .She was in a delimna. The neighbours looked at her plight and shook their heads.Suddenly her two little children who attend the sunday school and can hardly talk came with a bright idea.'Mother,why don't we pray to Jesus Christ?'.So the three of them knelt down and prayed ,the children could not say much beyond 'ishu masih' over and over again and when they had finished praying the rain stopped and her crops are doing well. Why was this testimony so beautiful to me?,it is because this is the Jesus Christ I know ,a great God who is mindful of...

Did I just have a double dinner?Yes I did.I had just had a maggie with fried eggs and Swetha came to my door with a full dinner.I ate it without a second thought,sometimes it feels like as though I have dementia.I actually do not know what I am swallowing.I ventured out to the Kachwa market and was surprised at the number of shops that were actually there.It is endless.The kindly kid who took me shopping was to cycle back home in time so we went meandering through the shops picking up bricks and bats and ended up in a cloth shop that belonged to a patient of ours.The heat was getting to my head and I was actually feeling giddy and faint but somehow managed to pick up some eggs,bananas and the cloth I needed. The government has put out an alert for fever cases taking into consideration that apparently 84 people have died of an unknown fever in the past six weeks in different parts of UP. I am not too surprised because we had our share of children coming in with fever and convulsions,i...

For a couple of days the pond in front of the hospital where I work has been haunting me.I look at the green slime,the water bottles and the plastics that have been thrown in but inspite of it,it reminds me of the pool at Bethesda.It is strategically right in front of the inpatient and the patients start sitting out in the corridor as they recover overlooking the pool.There is a family of duck which waddles in the pond happily oblivious of the life and sometimes death around.I ,when I walk to the hospital look at those sedate creatures and often wonder how they would fit in ,in the real world.They are joyful to watch and complete and beautiful and brings a form of orderliness into the paraphenalia. I needed to draw the pool,so on a sunday afternoon I sat with my crayons and drew my idea of the pool as I saw it in my mind's eye.I remembered the family of ducks but I decided I would not know how to fit the family in the frame ,so concentrated on the bits which reminded me of ...

It is little over a fortnight in Kachwa.I find myself doing little things that make life a little easier.I got my flu-shot the other day .Come August I start sniffing and it goes on throughout the year.It hampers my concentration and the uncomfortable cold comes in the way of my thinking clearly.One headache out of the way,not too expensive one but increasingly becoming essential.The other thing I make sure I have with me is my press-biopic glasses.I increasingly found that for some reason I was reading less.I picked up a glass from Waterstone and suddenly overnight I had got back my love of reading.At the moment I am reading 'Joy unspeakable'by D.Martin lloyd Jones.It is a tough glass which goes into my pocket without a case,it is light and is made of plastic I think because it is nowhere near breaking after the rough handling it gets. Kachwa is a mixed bag with life changing sermons like the one I heard on Habakkuk from Dr Raju and a humbling testimony of a village woman who...