Paeds ward

SV asked me to check on this patient while i was at Paeds today. She's a 12 year old girl who was brought to casualty by her parents because she'd been hyperventilating for the last 3-4 hours. The doctors on duty clearly figured she was ill enough to be admitted.
Her case-sheet history revealed (i didnt actually speak to her, she was asleep and it wasnt worth waking her up) that she stands first in class usually, and she had a mathematics exam coming up that was causing her anxiety.

how terrible to have that kind of fear at age 12. gah. what is the world coming to. more and more kids are feeling this kind of pressure to perform, and i honestly cannot blame them for not being able to cope with it.

SV wanted me to look at the case because she reminded him of me(!) but i guess not knowing bronchial breathing sounds in final year is a tad bit worse than not knowing some math theorem in class 7.

also at shenoys something really weird happened to me, my eyes started tearing up but i couldnt stop laughing. like. proper hysteria. thats never happened to me before. i was crying and at the same time, i couldnt stop laughing.

trip planned next week to Palolem, South Goa. staying at this place called Om Sai Guest House which has great reviews on the internet. Palolem as such seems to be a rather offbeat place to visit, it seems different from GOA goa. the 6 of us leave by the matsyagandha (ah, that train feels like home) on thursday afternoon.

:D

more later.