*starts my clinic
me: "when was your last menstrual period.."
*patient brings out phone, thinking she wants to check her app
Patient: "Hello hubby, when was my last menstrual period?... "
*hubby tells her immediately
me: "you don't know your last menstrual period, but hubby knows"
Patient: "of course, he'll know. He knows because after periods, he will start disturbing me for that thing... he never misses the date"
me: "what thing, I'm confused.."
Patient: "swear you don't know. That's how all men are including you Mr Dr..." *hisses
me: 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀😤😤😤
My sister: Last born, how far it's holiday o
Me: ooh ok, how are the kids
My sister : They are missing you, (quickly rush to give her youngest the phone) "hello aunty glo, we want to come to your house small.
Me: awwwwwn, give the phone to your mummy.( He returns the phone). Sister my schedule don't have space for kids now.
My sister: Come and carry this children and learn how to deal with noise, oya please just for 4 days.
Her husband in the background: I will give her money, tell her I will give her money.
N1.3bn has been budgeted for fake agency. N6.4bn for world cup wey we no go.
N8.4bn to renovate churches and mosques N21.2bn to renovate palaces
but zero Naira has been budgeted for Ibom deep seaport.
The Senate President is from which State again. Pls remind me.
Are we normal at all?
In engineering safety is our watchword.
During my active days in NEPA there was a day we went for fault clearing on a line (33kv line) and before we move to site we must as a matter of regulation we visited injection substation controlling the line to switch it off. On getting there the line switch was switched off and put a tag "men working" on the switch. Men moved to site, every safety procedures adhered to, mounted ladder, earthed the line and started working. Two hours into the working we heard a large blast,a devastating shocking with intense burn. Two linemen badly affected, ( I didn't want to talk much on the fatality). What could have happened? We did every necessary things. What a loss!!! From the site we went straight to the injection substation to ascertain who could have powered the line. When we got there what happened was shocking! The operator we handed our duty to had closed for his shift but the person who resumed duty was one SHAYO JARABA human being, Werey resumed shift and powered on the switch. Since then whenever we're working on the line our man must stay with the operator at the injection substation.
Me: Chief, you need to exercise so you can lose some weight.
Woman: Pharm thank you, help me tell him.
Man: The exercise that I’m always doing ontop of you is it not enough?
Woman: See what you’re saying outside, let’s not spoil pharm abeg.
Man: Spoil who? Nobody spoil pass this medical guys o, don’t allow them deceive you.
Woman: He doesn’t look like that kind of person.
Man: This guy that I’m seeing like this? Let me not talk sha.
Me:
My colleague is a very reckless spender, because of this, he started saving with his dad. For three years.
Recently, he got an opportunity to travel abroad and was excited because he had saved a substantial amount over time. He informed his dad about the trip and asked for the money he had been keeping for him.
The dad said he had invested the money in a business.
The whole family was confused because no one had ever heard about this "business." They kept asking questions until the truth finally came out.
His dad confessed that there was no business. He said he had given all the money to his side piece.
Now they're trying to reach the woman, but she's no longer picking up calls or responding to messages and he does not know where she stays.
My sister has been saving for a house down payment for 6 years.
$500 a month. Every month. No exceptions.
She skipped vacations. Drove the same car for a decade. Packed lunch every single day.
Last month she finally hit $60,000.
She called me excited. Ready to start looking.
Then her realtor sent her the numbers.
Average home in her area: $520,000.
She needs $104,000 for 20% down to avoid PMI.
She's $44,000 short. After 6 years of sacrifice.
She asked me what she did wrong.
Nothing. She did everything right.
The finish line just moved faster than she could run.
She's 34. Single. No kids. Good job. Perfect credit.
And she's still not enough for a system that keeps adjusting the rules mid-game.
Rabbit kit Myth vs Fact
Does Doe (mother rabbit 🐇) kl||s the kitten (new born rabbit) when a Human touched the kit?
Come close, this is the time to learn another important thing in Rabbit management.
The Myth:
It is a widespread belief that if a human touches a baby rabbit, the mother (doe) will smell the human scent and immediately reject or even kl|| the baby.
The Fact:
This is very untrue especially for domestic rabbits. A mother rabbit’s maternal instincts are much stronger than her sensitivity to a foreign scent, especially if she is used to human interaction.
But should You Touch Them?
Yes! You can but gently. As a rabbit farmer, your key task is to check kits daily to remove dead ones, make sure everyone is feeding well (round belly=good), and to also get them accustomed to human interaction.
However, be sure to wash your hands first and handle them briefly (don't hold them like you're holding Semo that's about to enter Soup
But why Do Mothers Reject Kits?
It’s not even about human scent, rejection mostly happens due to stress, first-time mother confusion, or the mother being unhealthy and unable to care for her litter and also if she has more babies that she can feed, she focuses on the strongest and neglects the weakest.
How to care for Newborn Kits
• Keep the nest area calm and clean.
• Wash hands before touching.
• You can rub your hands on the mother’s fur to blend scent or some clean nesting materials to mask human scents.
• Check once a day for warmth and full bellies.
• If a kit is cold or thin, quick intervention may be needed but hand-rearing is tough
Finally, avoid hovering around the nest... Some people no go let the rabbit rest, every 20mins dem dey check they disturb them. Stop hovering over them you're stressing the mother. Allow them to be!
I hope I have been able to convince you and not confuse you that touching kittens doesn't cause harm.
Lanre
NaijaFarmer
on the last night shift of house job in Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital... we had 3 cases of ectopic pregnancy that needed immediate surgery...
it was like a movie. All of them had burst in the tummy. They came in one after the other.
Immediately after one surgery... the next came...
Ooh!... I made enemies with all the lab people... 🤭🤭... to get blood and blood tests result... I didn't care if you were the CMD, wake up and do your job!... I banged all the doors... you can't be sleeping when I'm awake by 2am...
At a point my senior registrar asked me for blood results 2 minutes after collecting... I asked him if he wanted me to spin the blood in my mouth?🤭😭😭
it was peak emergency, 3 women can die just like that... I was ruthless, but very efficient... I apologised to all of them at the end of house job... to my surprise, they all respected me
Maybe that's when I fell in love with obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Looking back now, those surgeries could have been done without a large cut to their tummies... could have been done with laparoscopy!... but again, we didn't lose any patient and that's what mattered!...
... the most!
My sister was coming home from work one evening when their bus ran into kidnappers . Immediately people started jumping out of the bus, running in different directions just to escape.
At the time, she was 35 weeks pregnant.
She managed to get down and started running like everyone else. But in the rush, someone accidentally pushed her, and she fell hard.
She was immediately rushed to the hospital. The doctors ran tests to check on the baby, and that was when they discovered that her placenta had detached.
Without hesitation, they prepared her for an emergency C-section.
The baby was delivered prematurely and had to be placed in an incubator for nearly two weeks. But that surgery saved that child’s life.
So when you sit comfortably and speak down on women who go through C-sections, it only shows ignorance and insensitivity. C-sections are not a weakness, they are a life-saving intervention that has saved countless mothers and babies.
Five years ago on this day, I received a call from my boyfriend’s mother telling me that her son had been involved in a car accident and died on the spot💔To make a long story short, she asked me not to attend his funeral because we weren’t married🙂↔️🙂↔️
Today I met her son at the mall with his wife and twins😭😭😭😭
I have an aunt that was a total baddie, total Free Love Boomer into her early 30s, got loads of abortions, then completed her PhD and settled down with a lawyer. Divorced him, another lawyer. Divorced him, third lawyer. Separated from him, tried to make it work for years, had an affair with a guy that owned a contracting firm, got a quick divorce and was at the altar two weeks after it was finalized. Same deal, it turned sour after a while, they both found Jesus, got church counseling, it didn't work out, started dating the tallest and wealthiest retired lawyer at her church, just married him last year.
So she's on marriage number five, in her 60s, never had kids of her own, and has absolutely no issue whatsoever finding educated, wealthy, good looking men with all their hair interested in her.
There is no wall. There never was a wall. Men want wives and female companionship. If you're an extroverted, nice, happy, and take reasonably good care of yourself, you can find love at any age.
Baby girl: Aunty Dolapo, when is your party?
Me(lost): What party
BG: Your end of school year party
Me: Ohhh, I don’t go to school
BG: (looks confused for a minute) Oh, you don’t go to school?
Me: Yes??
BG: Is that why you’re selling fridge and pot and kettle and…
Me: Wait, I don’t understand?
BG: I want to become a Doctor, that’s why I’m going to school, so you don’t want to become a doctor that’s why you’re selling pot abi?
Me(shouts): Noooo, I went to school too but I’m done going to school
BG: So why are you not a doctor?
Me:
Some time ago, I was in the car with my aunt when a man suddenly left his lane and swerved into ours.
She did everything she could to avoid an accident.
Instead of apologizing, he started shouting, “See na woman,” while making dismissive hand gestures .
My aunt got angry and followed him until he pulled into a filling station.
She got down, showed him her ID, brought out a koboko and gave him three strokes.
People immediately started gathering around and begging her to leave him alone, he was begging too.
His wife didn’t say a word.
She stayed in the car the whole time.
I just heard a story and my body is shaking…
A 13-year old boy in Maiduguri was selling sugarcane in a wheelbarrow for his father.
Inside the scorching sun, he decided to push his wheelbarrow to a nearby tree for shade & for him to rest for a while.
As he pushed his wheelbarrow tired, he mistakenly brushed the front of a parked car & the headlamp fell off. He looked around & couldn’t find the owner. His conscience didn’t let him walk away from the car. So he waited for the owner who happened to be praying in a nearby mosque.
The owner finished his prayers & found this 13-year old boy and the damage he has done. He called the police and ordered the boy be put in prison.
Recently, this 13-year old boy just got released from prison, after spending 47 years in prison, at the age of 60 years.
At this point, I broke down in tears.
He was literally moved from one prison to the other all over Nigeria in the course of this 47 years in prison.
He only got released because a governor granted him pardon.
May Nigeria never happen to you.
I just listened to a crazy story on IG about a US-based content creator. He met a Nigerian woman in Naija, who is also a content creator. They got married, and he brought her to the US.
He already had a house in the US and had bought an apartment in Lekki, Lagos. His wife gave birth to two kids, and they later started having problems in the marriage.
The matter went to court, and the judge ruled in her favor: she kept the US house while he kept the Lagos one. He even begged her to keep the Lagos house while he stayed in his US house, but she refused.
When they got home, she told him to move out immediately. He decided he wouldn’t go down without a fight and later did a DNA test on the two kids, discovering they were not his.
He got a good lawyer, and the case turned in his favor. She begged him to forgive her, but he didn’t budge. She got deported, and as soon as she landed in Nigeria, she went to the Lekki house.
He called his family members in Lagos to throw her out and change the locks. Everyone in the comments said the brotherhood is proud of him.
Crazy things are happening.
So we now shame mothers that can't afford Pampers during immunization.
This mother refused to undress her baby in public for me to weigh and asked that she would like to use the restroom, if you know how public restroom is, you will know I told her NO.
She then sounded really uncomfortable, I asked what is it and she said "I wore him napkin, if I open it here, everybody will look at me one kind, last time they mocked me".
I encouraged her to do while standing in a way that you can't see whats going on, the baby's butt cheek is as smooth as it could be, even cleaner than some babies with pampers.
Pampers are good
But napkin are not bad either if you know how to maintain it.