Practicing Hallucinations

Lectures post-revolution are riddled with puns of the revolution itself. I guess you can say it is in the act of pride of the Egyptians.

Also and I believe I have stated before, studying for Pathology jars is basically practicing hallucinations.

If you are pure-hearted, you will see that this lesion is yellow. If you are sinned, cunning and whatever, you'll see it as grayish black.

'But what if I see it black?' one of you might ask. Well, you're in hell already, then.

But seriously, in the exam you have to write it as yellow. Maybe 1300 years ago it was yellow but after the formalin, old age and revolution, it changes colour.

Jar coded U27-1, diagnosed as renal tuberculosis
Dr. Ehab Refaat
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Rambo in Pathology

The fun lies in what happened today at Dr. Ehab's tuition, when we had our second section where we saw five slides of liver.

"If you move your slides haphazardly, you will be Lost. Season 5."

Lost starring Missy the cat.

I laughed and Dr. Ehab continued rather sheepishly.

"Actually there is season 9 but they found nothing. I prefer Desperate Housewives."

Thus I relaxed myself to a class of cultural referances, crossed my legs and happily took notes of everything. It's like living a Hey Soul Sister or Hollywood. And I am sure the average living colleagues of mine will be Lost to what this post is about :) thus the declining number of people with faith in my sensibility.

"In jars, there is hallucination you can adapt to. In slides, it is the art of reality."

I seriously love that part; it summarized the difficulty I had in translating the jars we had in the Pathology museum without the help and guidance the lecturers and the book.

Like seriously. If you have no basic on the theoretical part of a pathological description, there is no way you can describe the jars. Thus the hallucination because you know what is there immersed in formalin, but it's not really that visually palpable.

Also today we had section of a hepatocellular carcinoma (which some lecturers might prefer to as hepatoma) and Dr. Ehab gave us the common description of a cancerous tissue. He gave us the analogy of American troops invading Afghanistan and Iraq and we might easily distinguish the invaders through their large number moving in masses wearing identical fatigues and also by their language.

"There is no invasion by a single cell, unless it's Rambo or whatever."

John Rambo.

And at the end of class, Syaimaa' said, "-unless it's Rambo or Atiqah Hanifah."

I think she overrated me; I am an innocent cell with no anaplastic features whatsoever.