Walking through hell day 4 -The great escape

Sorry for posting this a day later than I normally would but yesterday was the best day ever. I woke up at about 6:30 in the morning, hit the gym at 7, stayed there for a couple of hours and did a ton of cardio. I ran a total of 7kms at 11km/hr with an incline of 2 degrees, used the elliptical machine for 30 minutes straight and maintained 90-100 rpms throughout and spent the last 20 or so minutes on the cycling machine. Am I physically broken, yes, does every inch of my body hurt, yes, am I mentally euphoric, yes, was it worth it, oh yes big time.

Came back after a thrilling 2hrs at the gym took a shower and got to studying. Watched all of renal BnB AND read through all of the Renal and genitourinary chapter  (about 80 or so pages) of step 2 FA. It took me a total of about 6 hours but now I am finally done with renal so yayyyy.

In the evening I had what can only be described as my greatest night out ever. Nauman came over to my place on his bike and we went to bahria on it. Relived our time as first year med students, talked about the very sorry state of our lives, had KFC, and Nauman said something that deserves to be immortalized lol. 

So we were on top of a monument in safari villas and I was going on bitching about how the system had been so unfair to me and how if I hadn't been failed this would've been my best academic performance over the last 5 years (mind you, I have killer scores in surgery, paeds and ob/gyn), and out of the blue Nauman says to me "you see that palm tree over there, it's tall and beautiful", and I said "yes and..." and he said "bas, nothing, that's it". I know this doesn't make any sense (then again at this point nothing makes any sense lol), but by God was it the funniest thing to have ever come out of his mouth, It is not about what he said but the way he said it. It really can't be put into words.

Anyways so we roamed around bahria like two "gwachi gaans" for about four or so hours and yeah it was fun. 

After God knows how many days I can finally say that I am happy.




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