How Time Flies 2

A student/father and a daughter(hardly 6 months old) and a son.

My first daughter, Mariam, came into this world at the the beginning of my final year in the university. In a way she is special in the sense that she was totally looked after by us without any help from our family.

She was born on a cold evening in Hedon Maternity Hospital about 10 km away from our home. Although my wife was sent to the hospital in an ambulance, I had to borrow a friend's car every evening during visiting hours.

I was in the waiting room with my 5 year old son when the nurse brought in my first daughter. Holding a little baby girl in my arms at that time was special---I felt so protective , that little baby was so vulnerable .

It was something else to look after a baby on your own in a faraway land, and fulfiling your responsibilities as a student and a father. But my family did it.

It seemed such a long time and a struggle, but nearly two years ago when she graduated from UM --everything seemed to have flown by in a wink. Now whenever she talks about her patients and collegues, I still see her in my arms on that very cold evening in the hospital.