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requiring oxygen, to laugh and jump
without feeling pain.
enough, choosing between the sciences and
the arts.
We must be grateful. We should be grateful.
But if pain does come, look beyond it; find
joy in your inner person and in God. Love
without counting the cost and live each day
as a gift.
I loved both, and I found literature, history
and accounting exciting. Besides
accountants were “rich” and figures were
fun. But I made a promise to help children
with HIV if God saw me through something,
and I decided that medicine was the way,
so it was the sciences I chose. I sailed
through and after Uuppersixth, with my A
levels in the sciences, I really felt undecided
again, was so tempted to switch to
accounting in Buea, I said if I passed the
CUSS entrance I will do medicine and if not
accounting it will be.
The emergency is BUSY, you need to use
your wits, to swallow your fear and your
pride and put in your best to get the patient
the best treatment in the shortest possible
time. There what I notice, is how futile life
is, that is, it’s here today and gone
tomorrow.
A car crash, then life time dreams come
shattering, sometimes you can make new
dreams, other times its to meet in heaven.
That is the truth, when we are young, we
never think of death, but ask yourself, if I go
today would I have done my part? I
remember we lost one of our friends and
classmates Tafah Ambang about a year after
we left school, she was different, mature
and the moments we spent either playing
basketball, or talking about life, I learnt a lot
from her. Don’t waste your time, doing
what is not what while.
4. How did you decide on your
career/academic path?
My career path was a mixture of faith and
fate. My Dad is a doctor, and I think I was
influenced by that subconsciously. While
very young I wanted to be a doctor, but
growing up I changed my mind quite a few
times, but one of does decisive moments
was form 3 moving to form 4, strange
So, I passed the CUSS entrance, and
medicine it was. When I started, was still
not soo sure, till I got to the fourth year, the
clinical years and then I was sure that is
what I really wanted to do. Sometimes
even when you make up your mind, the
journey is still not easy, there are times you
may still doubt, but never forget your
dreams.
So as it shows, maybe not for everybody,
but for me, career paths sometimes are
discovered along
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