Breathe

My mom works in a government hospital and for her ease we stay nearby in quarters in the capital city, eventhough we own a house in the rural area of the state. We make visits to our house 3 to 4 times in a month to clean our house , dust the floor, water plants etc.

We wanted to give our house for rent but my parents are so attached to it (especially my mom) that they are scared of others damaging it.

So as I said we usually visit our own house to make it tidy. So today it was one such day. Usually its my dad who cleans the yard, clears weeds and mom and me do all the inside work like moping, dusting etc.

Behind our house we have enough land for planting different trees and plants , but since we don’t stay there the area is left abandoned(except some random plants that don’t need that much water).So my dad thought of clearing the weeds and making it suitable for growing plants.

So as I mentioned my house is in a rural area and the land was bought by us from people who lived there before. And you all know about the hindu custom of funeral, we set the body to fire without taking a pit unlike other religions. So my dad today told me as he was clearing the weeds that people who lived here years ago where really poor ones who didn’t own money or any other land inorder to cremate the dead. So they used to do all the funerals wherever they saw a space near they lived and also used to plant a coconut tree at the same place as a memory.

As soon as he said that I realised that we had many coconut trees in our land. I felt a bit scary but then I was fine. Little did I know that something else was waiting for me. As I was talking to my dad I felt something hard under my foot . I tried to pull it out and found that it was a piece of wood full of mud..but its shape was a bit confusing so I decided to clean it. And guess what !!!

As I started washing it its shape was becoming familiar to me. And finally I realized that it is a vertebrae.. vertebrae of a human..

I ran to my dad and told him about it and I started to look for more bones nearby but didn’t find any..

Within seconds I starting clicking pictures of it..and I decided to carry it back with me. So as I was trying to find a place to hide this in my car my mom caught me.

She is a person with an old mentality. She scolded me for touching it and took it away from me. I was a bit sad but its fine..She was trying to make me scared by saying the person’s spirit will follow you and what not…I mean..I am not a baby..C’mon..

Everyone at some point of our life must have thought about this..’ Why does milk overflow when boiled ??’ and ‘Why do things in the to do list come to our mind when the milk is just few seconds away from boiling over ??’:p

Well I don’t know the answer to the second question..lol..But yeah I can explain the phenomenon taking place in the first question.

So when we heat water some amount of it changes it’s state to vapour form..In the case of normal water it rises up but in the case of milk, since the upper layer of milk is covered with cream, the vapour tries to push out the layer hence spilling it.

Kitchen tip : You can prevent boiling over of milk by keeping a wooden spoon/stick across the vessel .

Thank me later :p Cheers :))

I really wanted to do this for a long time and finally this lockdown made it happen :).

This is an introductory post, just to introduce myself and the topics that I would love to talk about.

I’m a medical student. I would like to use this platform to share my knowledge and information about the anatomy of human body, health and fitness.

There are many interesting facts and informations about our body that I felt are worth sharing.

And I would also love to share my experiences as a medico and the hardwork I had put in to be one.

I hope that atleast some of you would find my page helpful and please don’t hesitate to ask doubts . Cheers :))

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton