Nugget

A tiny baby. A mighty lesson.Today is World Anaesthesia Day- in 1846 on this day, ether was demonstrated in public ,opening an era of painless surgery finally. I celebrated it by anaesthetising this 1.7 kg nugget of a baby , one of twins born in a district about 10 hours away and brought to us at 12 days of age with an imperforate anus for a diversion colostomy. The anaesthesia team consisted of my 10th pass hospital assistant, my God and me. As I woke the baby up after the surgery and uneventful anaesthesia, I was reminded of the advances in anaesthesia that make this possible. But more importantly I was also made acutely aware of my God who manages to pull off these stunts in resource constrained settings like ours, time and time again.  What a superhero God we worship!
 

(P.S: I wrote this in my e-journal on 16th October,2016 while working as a junior Anaesthesiologist in CIHSR,Dimapur,Nagaland and shared with a few earlier. Copy pasted here- Tryphena).