Sunday, 30 November 2025
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Friday, 28 November 2025
Despite its complexity, the human brain can only focus on about one thing at a time.
Monotasking reduces distraction, sharpens attention, and allows us to operate at peak performance.
But a brain can adapt and thrive in just about anything.
Even chaos.
Scientists call the conscious thought needed to complete everyday tasks working memory. That memory is always there, always there, getting you through the chaos of life, one task at a time.
In some ways, that's all life really is, all the things we do strung together.
this day, this night, this moment.
This connection, this family, this friendship.
And somewhere, in all of that, sleep and wake up.
Sleep and wake up.
Sleep.
And wake up.
Infections are like sleeping monsters.
You can't see them. You can't feel them, but you must do everything in your power to contain them.
Because when the monsters wake up, they are out of control.
All that time you spent convincing yourself the sleeping monster wasn't real, it was gathering strength. The infection was spreading.
The monster's awake now and there's nothing you can do about it.
My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."
And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."
And I say to both my house and the road,
"I have no past, nor have I a future.
If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;
and if I go there is a staying in my going.
Only love and death will change all things.
He doesn't know that. He's an idiot. For all he knows, it could be the worst day of his life.
You know how people say, 'Who knows? I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.' That seems pretty farfetched.
Until you have a friend who got hit by a bus.
The point is you never know what kind of day is coming.
Whenever we think we know the future, even for a second, it changes. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely. And we're left only with the choice of what to do next.
We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there, trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen.
Or we step forward, into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.
Do you know who you are?
Do you know what's happened to you?
Do you want to live this way?
All it takes is one person, one moment to change your life forever. It can change your perspective, colour your thinking. One moment that forces you to re-evaluate everything you think you know.
Do you know who you are?
Do you know what's happened to you?
Do you want to live this way?
There's a stage you go through during child birth and it's the toughest part. It's called the transition stage.
You've been pushing so hard and so long that you're exhausted, spent and there's nothing to show for your effort.
During this transition stage, it feels like you can't go on, but it's only because you're very nearly there.
Transition is movement from one part of life to a whole new one. And it can feel like one long, scary, dark tunnel.
But you have to come out the other side because what's been waiting there might be glorious.
We cover up injuries with tape and gauze to protect the injury, to prevent infection, to prevent further suffering.
The hard part comes when you have to rip the bandage off, because that can hurt like hell.
It hurts to tear that bandage off. We don't wanna see what's underneath.
But maybe it's not the fear of the pain that holds us back.
Maybe, we're really afraid to see if the wound underneath is still open, or if it might actually be healing.
We can't boil every injury down to one single blow.
What hurts us is cumulative. It happens over time. We absorb blow after blow, shock after shock, painful hit after hit.
But even then, even if we know exactly how we got here, it doesn't mean we can fix it.
You can't heal every wound and that's okay.
even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken.
That’s what they used to call it when your parents got divorced, even though getting divorced was the least broken they ever did.
I wondered if broken homes were where broken people lived.
to this day I still wonder.
You can build a house out of anything, make it as strong as you want, but a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with and people can be broken,
what's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed, that no matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again.
In 1967, an orthopedic surgeon crashed his plane in the middle of nowhere with his family on board. He was shocked by how unprepared the local doctors were to treat his injured family. They prioritized what they could see: lacerations, open fractures; and didn't look for hidden injuries like brain trauma or internal bleeding.
It inspired him to invent the Advanced Trauma Life Support program.
The ATLS is only the beginning. What happens after that, is all on you.
To be good at assessing traumas, you have to be good at dissociating. You're not looking at a person on the table. You're looking at a protocol.
Sometimes the hardest part of working a trauma is finding yourself on the other side. Letting yourself feel.
Mourn the lives you've lost and celebrate the lives you've saved.
Even if it's only your own.
Thursday, 27 November 2025
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
In 1952, Dr. F. John Lewis performed the first successful open-heart surgery using hypothermia.
By inducing a hypothermic state, the surgical team created a window of several minutes to close a hole in the heart of a five-year-old girl. That one surgery changed the entire course of human history. But as they watched her tiny heart, desperate for it to beat again, it could have gone either way. All they could do was hope.
When you encounter a new beginning, there's no announcement on a loudspeaker.
Blink and you could miss it.
Or worse, ignore it.
New beginnings can be scary.
But they can also be deeply fulfilling.
So let go, and dive in.
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
In the End - Song by Linkin Park
It starts with one
One thing, I don't know whyIt doesn't even matter how hard you tryKeep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to explain in due timeAll I know time is a valuable thingWatch it fly by as the pendulum swingsWatch it count down to the end of the day, the clock ticks life away
It's so unreal, didn't look out belowWatch the time go right out the windowTryna hold on, didn't even knowI wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything insideAnd even though I tried, it all fell apartWhat it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard and got so farBut in the end, it doesn't even matterI had to fall to lose it allBut in the end, it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know whyIt doesn't even matter how hard you tryKeep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to remind myself how I tried so hardIn spite of the way you were mockin' meActin' like I was part of your propertyRememberin' all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so farThings aren't the way they were beforeYou wouldn't even recognize me anymoreNot that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything insideAnd even though I tried, it all fell apartWhat it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard and got so farBut in the end, it doesn't even matterI had to fall to lose it allBut in the end, it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in youPushed as far as I can goFor all this, there's only one thing you should knowI've put my trust in youPushed as far as I can goFor all this, there's only one thing you should know
In the end, all you can do is hope for the best and trust you're making the right call.
The hardest thing about waiting is knowing when to stop.
Instinct may tell you one thing, and experience tells you another.
All you can do is pay attention.
And hope that when the time finally comes, you'll be ready.
Monday, 24 November 2025
What transforms this world is — knowledge.
Nothing else can change anything in this world.
Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is.
When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable
and at the same time are constantly being transformed.
Sunday, 23 November 2025
For most of history, doctors had no way to stop pain.
During surgery, patients felt every cut and stitch until they inevitably passed out. All a surgeon could do to minimize pain was work faster.
That all changed when the first surgery was performed using ether as anaesthetic.
Now surgeons faced a new dilemma. If a patient can't feel pain, when do you stop?
Anything can be a race against the clock if you let it.
Waiting for a promotion, having a child, eating the last yogurt in your refrigerator.
Sometimes, you really are running out of time.
Most of the time, it's all in your head.
And when you let go of all that fear, the possibilities are infinite.
Saturday, 22 November 2025
There comes a point when the novelty wears off and monotony sets in.
You go to work, you perform the same procedures over and over, you get home late, eat leftovers straight out of the fridge, go to sleep.
Then you wake up and do it all over again.
The second you get lulled into the routine, that's when it happens.
That's when you
changed your life.
helped you see the kind of person you wanna be.
Friday, 21 November 2025
When a patient consents to surgery, they're not just trusting their lives to a surgeon. They're trusting an entire team.
An anesthesiologist must continually monitor sedation, respiratory and heart rate, blood pressure. A first assist suctions and retracts, helping with every suture and staple. A scrub tech organizes and hands over surgical tools, saving valuable seconds and blood spilled. And circulating nurses document the case, keeping track of who touches the patient, what's used and when.
Every member of the team shares responsibility in the patient's survival. If someone's not there, you're in trouble.
When something's been in your life for a long time, you can often forget it's there.
Whether it's a person or a place, sometimes you can take it for granted. You never consider you won't walk in that door again or hear that voice.
But yet it happens every day. People experience unexpected loss.
And as impossible as it may seem, don't give up.
You have to believe you'll find hope again.
Thursday, 20 November 2025
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Tuesday, 18 November 2025
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God.
I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction.
The Christian god may exist;
so may the gods of Olympus,
or of ancient Egypt,
or of Babylon.
But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other:
they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge,
and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
Monday, 17 November 2025
The waiting can kill you.
You make a decision and then the world has to turn. The consequences unfold, out of your hands.
There's only one thing that seems clear in those quiet moments while you wait: whatever you choose, was wrong.
We just wanna survive the storm. We pray, please God, just get me to the other side.
We never imagine what it will be like when we get there.
What if, when the storm passes, nothing's left?
I always said I could handle anything. I was wrong. I was wrong about a lot of things.
But I was right about one thing
: I was right about this.
Sunday, 16 November 2025
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November Rain - Song by Guns N' Roses
When I look into your eyesI can see a love restrainedBut darlin' when I hold youDon't you know I feel the same?
Nothin' lasts foreverAnd we both know hearts can changeAnd it's hard to hold a candleIn the cold November rain
We've been through this such a long long timeJust tryin' to kill the pain, ooh yeahLove is always coming, love is always goingNo one's really sure who's lettin' go todayWalking away
If we could take the time to lay it on the lineI could rest my head just knowin' that you were mineAll mineSo if you want to love me then darlin' don't refrainOr I'll just end up walkin' in the cold November rain
Do you need some time on your own?Do you need some time all alone?Ooh, everybody needs some time on their ownOoh, don't you know you need some time all alone
I know it's hard to keep an open heartWhen even friends seem out to harm youBut if you could heal a broken heartWouldn't time be out to charm you?Oh, oh, oh
Sometimes I need some time on my ownSometimes I need some time all aloneOoh, everybody needs some time on their ownOoh, don't you know you need some time all alone
And when your fears subsideAnd shadows still remain, oh yeahI know that you can love me when there's no one left to blameSo never mind the darkness, we still can find a way'Cause nothin' lasts forever, even cold November rain
Don't ya think that you need somebody?Don't ya think that you need someone?Everybody needs somebodyYou're not the only oneYou're not the only one
Saturday, 1 November 2025
November
November
The Centaur, Sagittarius, am I,
Born of Ixion's and the cloud's embrace;
With sounding hoofs across the earth I fly,
A steed Thessalian with a human face.
Sharp winds the arrows are with which I chase
The leaves, half dead already with affright;
I shroud myself in gloom; and to the race
Of mortals bring nor comfort nor delight.
say November say
“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”
“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.”
“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.”
November. The noons are more laconic and the sunsets sterner
November always seems to be the Norway of the year.
“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither;
but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops
— which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”
“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”
“This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts — that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless — perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year.”
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