V.I.IV GREAT EXPECTATIONS It was full steam ahead. Interview, check. January exams, check. Only one semester to go and I’d be a fully-fledged doctor. Sure, there’d be some bumps on the road, but if everything went according to plan, it would be smooth sailing or something close to it. Becoming a surgeon had been my goal all along. I knew […]
Anticipation
I.II.I ANTICIPATION My path to getting into medicine? Oof. It was just like a game of Pac-Man. Only the maze was more convoluted, the dots I had to eat were books and Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde were my assignments, exams, anxiety and a feeling of impending doom. In order to get into medicine, I’d need to sit for biology […]
Ex-Father
I.I.II EX-FATHER My father was never a man of many words. Unless those words were “no” or “you had that coming”. For the better part of my life, he could have been the family butler I was forced to hang out with on occasion, but that was about it. He’d come home late from work, pick a fight with my […]