Of Updates, Confessions and Random thoughts

First the Update...

The test was for TB. It's called the Tuberculosis Skin PPD test where they inject bacterial proteins into your body and look for a reaction. As far as this test goes, I personally feel the interpretations are ambiguous. My body showed a very strong positive reaction which could have been indicative of TB but then again, since I have been given the BCG vaccine, a positive reaction is not unexpected. But here's what I find disturbing (too strong a word) - none of the doctors I asked could explain why I should have shown such a disturbingly (yes, I did lose sleep over it, imagining my lungs to be racked with TB and dismally staring at the prospect of curing myself of TB within 2 months while simultaneously infecting all who come in contact with me. tsk.) strong reaction. Makes me feel that medicine is highly empirical in nature. But I don't blame them. Having delved a little bit in Cell and Molecular Biology (it rocks!) I know what scientists are against and its a challenge which modern science has only just begun to grasp the magnanimity of.


Confession... This is turning out to be a Confessional blog after all.

Random thought... Is my Chemical Engineering so volatile? Today I had to face the practical problem of designing a system for dissolving CO2 in water, and guess what... Gas absorbers didn't cross my mind :( until I saw a design on the internet.

I'm hoping that's not the case.

fret fret...