Thursday, October 04, 2007

A Genie In Our Ward

It is believed in arabic culture that diseases are caused by Genie (spiritual being) entering inside the human body, especially the psychiatric illnesses. Before days I was late at night in the ward when women in the last far room start to shout, they were four women, 2 patients and 2 members of patient's families, all of them shouting...the rural patient and her mother was screaming that there is Genie in their room, the other patient from centre of mosul and hre sister was also afraid and saying that there is someone annoying them...
All of them went out of the ward, the mother of the rural patient said that something is going out and in from the wall, the woman with that patient from Mosul expalined that someone is hiding somewhere and saying "pssssssst" for them to frighten them...

I went alone to that room...it was dark..I turned on the light...then heard a long "psssssst" that really made me afraid...I keep looking from where the sound is coming and look what I found...



It is the oxygen opening leaking some oxygen....

3 comments:

Mister Ghost said...

"Love is like oxygen,
You get too much and you get high,
not enough and you die.
Love makes you high."
Sweet

Lucky they weren't smoking by the
leak or the Genie would have turned in to Shaitan, whisking them off to the underworld, where they've could have had some pomegranate seeds with Persephone.

Dr. Saminkie,
Keep up the good work. You are one of the unheralded stars of the Iraqi Blogosphere.

Mister Ghost

saminkie said...

thank you Mr. Ghost for the nice words you say...you seem got a nice rich vivid imaginary regarding life in the underworld...hope it is as nice as you told us....thank you dear...

Anonymous said...

Hi Dr Al Bedri and Mister Ghost,

i l o v e that song...great to fit it in to the O 2 story, well done ! What a perfect way to describe Dr. Al Bedri, "...one of the unheralded stars of the Iraqi Blog world". I agree very much. And to you as well, Mister ghost!, tracy