My best friend’s wedding

  Dreaming about this day for over an year, and counting down days past few months, it finally arrived, the day when all her dreams are coming true. Like a perfect fairy tale, our little princess is getting married to her sweetheart today..  Will it be as per what we imagined..No, it’s much more perfect than that.. She is the most beautiful bride I ever saw..And the groom her perfect other half..& as they take vow to be together forever tonight, I wish her all the happiness in this world, but even that won’t be enough.. Congrats both of you and I wish you nothing but success and happiness and love and money and kittens and candy and…oh, and a lifetime of heather, off course :) 

Situs inversus totalis

Day had started turning boring for me in that general surgery ward by the time I finished talking to first patient!! I was unusually lazy today because world around me was spinning with very same pace as yesterday, as last week, as last month…. Although I got accustomed to this routine of my life, I was bored.. i was sick of the same countenance I am seeing these days…sighhh..
I moved to my second patient.. I addressed her with a forged smile as my first attempt to create a rapport, and started talking. i asked her complaints and course of illness..and from the typical history this “fatty fertile female of forty” gave, I straight away made a diagnosis of Cholilithiasis ie stones in gall bladder..But only thing that puzzled me was site of her pain! it was in left side where as the classical pain must be in right side as gall bladder is an organ situated in right!!! I asked her about pain in detail, still the site of pain didn’t change!!! So I got up and said a thank you to her though I was totally confused!i thought over it again! but that only doubled my perplexity !!so I concluded that either I am wrong with my diagnosis or patient is confused about her pain!!! Leaving behind that thought i moved to next patient..
About an hour later while I was arguing about something totally irrelevant with my colleague , another fellow came and told us in excitement , “I heard there is a situs inversus patient in our ward!!!” ..it took a speck of moment for me to assimilate what I heard… OH MY GOD… and suddenly my baffled thoughts got lucid. Neither that patient was confused about her pain nor was I wrong with my diagnosis!! Its just that her body was mirror image of a normal human body! so that the normal gall bladder to be situated in right side is on left side of her body!! I had a rush of mixed emotions then, But above all, I was happy..
Situs inversus is a condition seen in less than 0.01% of world population, which doesn’t cause a major ailment of its own to the person other than making them rare and special..The American basketball player, Randy Foye was diagnosed with situs inversus and he has suffered no discernible complications because of this, instead he is a well established professional athlete!
I went back to that patient and examined her..& for the first time in my life I heard a heart beating in right side of the body. I felt unusually happy at that moment and told her that I am really glad to have met her. To my surprise, she said I am not the 1st person to tell her that. Doctors whom she consulted before as well told the same. Also her treatments in previous hospitals were at no cost for the very reason that she is unique! i looked at her radiographs and the completely swapped internal anatomy of hers amused me.. I smiled and thanked her again for letting me examine her.. and also for making my usually boring day an unusually exciting one..