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My Two Cents

Allhumdolillah! I am at a much better place since my last post with series of lab tests, utlrasounds, a mammogram and some other really scary tests, and a gut wrenching anxiety of results. I am doing well thankfully everything was clear except low iron levels with vitamin d3 deficiency. These deficiencies are now on their way to recovery. It is worth noting that I have been struggling with intense brain and physical fatigue since 2019 but not a single doctor was able to identify my problem. Once somebody is diagnosed with depression or anxiety then every health issue they complain about is looked from the psychological lenses. Nobody asked me to check iron, vitamin b12 or vitamin d3 deficiencies even my mum who is a dermatologist always assured me that I am fine and this weakness is just a phase.   It was a phase alright, it engulfed almost 8 years of my life pushed back my career and research ambitions.  This is not the case alone with me but there are many people who silentl...

To be or not to be

To be or not to be... William Shakespeare's Hamlet. No please, I am not going to get into any intellectual stuff. It’s just that these words keep coming into my mind, for reasons unknown, my English class and the teacher and the elementary school are all roaming in my mind these days. It is strange that I am even dreaming my school, the place where we used to have our art classes, the Montessori classes. It all seems so real that if I want I can probably touch those images. Brain and its memories are indescribable phenomena they take to the journeys where you once had been. However, I have to say there has to be some solid reason for such wanderings or else this could be simply the result of an empty mind. Me and my stories...Anyways Ramadan is   just around the corner and we have already started to see the chaos and panic on the main avenues of the city. I always fail to understand what is in this Holy month that makes people odd, what is there that everyone se...