Scored 356 in JAMB to gain admission into medicine
Entered medical school at 16
Got 3 full scholarships for fees and accm
Overall best student in my first year
90+ in first 3 in-courses
Gifted an iPhone 16 for academic excellence
All of these I no get
But I'm grateful for life
Not gonna lie , 200L when I had 50 , I made different TikTok videos , I danced all day in the hostel , call all my family members to celebrate with me but now that it was 60s, I havenโt been calm like this before , and I barely posted,
I now know what will make me happy.
No even annoy me.
When last you see Nigerian government fund research, but make I defend that same bloody government to increase fees?
I no care whatever model you want propose, once it involves the already stretched citizen paying more, get that dunghill idea out of my face.
He spent his life teaching surgeons how to repair the aorta.
Then, at 97, his own aorta began to tear.
On New Yearโs Eve 2005, Michael DeBakey was alone in his Houston study when a tearing pain ripped through his chest and into his back. He knew instantly what it was: an acute aortic dissection โ the catastrophic condition he had classified, studied, and taught others to treat for decades.
At 97, he first refused surgery. He understood the odds. But his condition worsened. On February 9, 2006, after an ethics-committee debate and with his family pressing forward, surgeons opened his chest. They replaced the damaged segment of his aorta with a Dacron graft โ the same kind of synthetic vessel he had pioneered in the 1950s.
There was a quiet full-circle detail in that graft. DeBakey had learned to sew from his mother. When department-store nylon ran out, he bought Dacron instead and stitched the first experimental tubes on his wifeโs sewing machine.
Decades later, that material helped save his own life.
The operation lasted about seven hours. He survived. After a long recovery he returned to work, lectured, and wrote. In April 2008 he received the Congressional Gold Medal. He died on July 11, 2008, at 99 โ weeks short of his 100th birthday.
He studied the disease. He built the tools. He trained the surgeons. Then he became the patient. The man who gave other people more time was given a little more time himself โ and spent it in the hands of the people he had taught. โค๏ธ
Majority of your course mates are slyโs and are secretly in an unhealthy competition with you, which makes no sense. However once youโve found your people it makes the whole process worth it.