BrainSurged

Until late last year, I was no fan of Doctors; I was practically on the other end of the scale. I'm sure all of us, doctors included, have suffered from medical incompetence in one form or another. But, like me, unless you get sick, you don't see the beauty of the competence and dedication of medical professionals.  Nobody, especially me, starts out in a profession solely to help others. I am sure all the doctors and surgeons and nursing staff carefully evaluated their strengths before deciding on their career paths. It simply is imperative that one has to fundamentally care for people, more than the rest of us do, in order to arrive at this trajectory of careers. I have always been a very good student, a good artist and curious about Biology and the sciences. Translated, I was a prime candidate for medical school. Luckily for me, I was self-aware enough even as a teenager to realize that I cannot interact with people that much, and pretend to like them for extended periods. No...

The rousing words on Twitter, Quora and other useless social places for the unsociable and/or quarantined, spurred me into action. Made a brain-damage friendly to-do list app, for personal use, obviously. It looks absolutely unremarkable thus far, and will be updated on GitHub if it ever gets remarkable. In the meantime, what to do about the At-home monsters? In all the articles about the age of social distancing/Covid-19, nobody is complaining about too much socializing. I used to have a minimum of eight hours alone every single day and today is the day 14 of my socializing with three people, minimum, every day. That's three too many! Fun fact: Viricide is the act of killing a virus- also the word for killing one's husband! Ha! I was looking for the word for the latter. I'm not entirely sure this is a real definition or other wives' wishful addition to the English language. Covid-19 doesn't pose that much immediate threat, by comparison. My descriptive idiom is s...

The Germ magnets we cultivate at home, aka our children, both together gave me the flu. Quite the listless two weeks past. Or may be it was three weeks and I lost count! Add on the Corona Virus hysteria online, flu and sick kids = I was a complete hermit. As usual! As my head heals everyday, I find reasons to be more and more optimistic. And this was yesterday's silver-lining - to all those people asking me to socialize! A few years ago, on a particularly miserable fourteen hour flight to San Diego from Frankfurt, en route every miserable, unnecessary stop to cut costs, I sneezed, may be three times, in quick succession. Three times, which, given my dust allergy and the number of smokers aboard my different flights, was laughably few. However, those three sneezes made my neighbor to harangue me with questions about where I am coming from- Africa, Asia, eastern Europe? Have I some kind of illness that can be transmitted? I should have said I have A...