Getting a kick...

 I love to write real-life inspirational blogs. I'm sure, you might be loving to read the travel blogs or a foodie blogs... but I may not write much on those topics. Some of my followers actually say that my blogs are life changing. Well, you may ask me, does people still read blogs. The answer is definitely yes. A blog where I wrote about my saving a life of a Pakistani while serving at Poonch was read by more than one and half lakhs people all over the world. I know nobody would give me bharat ratna for that...but writing blogs gives me kick which I don't get anywhere else. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Col Pradeep Pendyala, Professor of Anaesthesiology, ASRAM Medical College

Do you Know...???

 Do you know what we do 

When the patient is asleep during surgery 

Do you know what we do 

When you are not breathing enough to sustain yourself 

Do you know what we do

When there are no heart sounds 

Do you know what we do

When everyone says there's 

No hope of your survival 

Do you know what we do

When you're declared a Corona  positive and struggling to breath 

Do you know what we do 

When you need a Cesarean 

Do you know what we do

By looking and analyzing the monitors when everything goes wrong 

Yes we're the Anaesthesiologists 

Yes we're the one 

Who saves you 

When everything goes wrong 

Anaesthesia is not just 

Putting you to sleep 

But making sure 

You wake-up

After you sleep...Col Pradeep Pendyala, Professor of Anaesthesiology, ASRAM

Nobody knows...

 Nobody knows that my own uncle was once deputy speaker of 6th Lok Sabha...Sri Godey Murahari. I stayed with him in Delhi when he's a MP during 1975. He's also Rajya Sabha deputy chairman during 1972-77. He started his political career along with Sri George Fernandes of Samata Party an

d later joined Indian National Congress. Well, you can see me in this picture along with the then Defence Minister, Sri George Fernandes when he had visited the Bhachau sector of Bhuj during the well known Earthquake of 2001. I was in charge of the Operation Theatre of Bhachau for a record period of three months during those earthquake and aftershocks. I must have given anaesthesia to thousands of people those days at Bhachau and interestingly, not a single death. Believe it or not, I was a huge fan of Sri George Fernandes and his style of working and thinking.  ...Col Pradeep Pendyala, Professor, ASRAM.

Nobody knows

 Nobody knows that I was part of the most dangerous and treacherous Black Rock expedition team which was conducted in 1984 at Tibet border. I was the only Army Medical Corps Medical officer with no other medical assistance in the team of seven Gorkha Soldiers ( including two Sherpas who successfully climbed Kanchenjunga earlier ) along with the team leader Maj RK Sharma. Our task was to ascertain the possibility of enemy infiltration using a virgin land. We did a patrol for seven days and nights nonstop walking with short halts and using our shakkar para and packed minced meat as the only diet while trekking at an altitude of 21000 ft above sea level. There used to be no Google maps those days ...the only reference used to be our compass for directions and our army map for reference... that's all. We celebrated diwali in our own way when we suddenly realised one night that it was actually Deepawali night. Maj RK Sharma is no more alive today. I was decorated with Army commander's commendation card for this act of bravery. Col Pradeep Pendyala, Anaesthesiologist.

Fauji remains a fauji

Fauji remains a fauji even after his retirement. I've completed five years after my retirement in 2015 after serving Army Medical Corps for 33 years, but even now, when I report to my hospital duties, it's always fifteen minutes earlier than the stipulated time. In army, if you attend a casual function at the time specified, you're fifteen minutes late, you're expected to reach the venue fifteen minutes earlier. After working at Hyderabad for four years after retirement, when I relocated myself at a much smaller place, Eluru, for my further professional career, there were no issues in adapting myself to the new environment and new people, it comes naturally to a fauji... that's his true attitude 😉  Col ( Dr ) Pradeep Pendyala, Professor, ASRAM

Philomath

A philomath is a person who loves to learn new things. Let's be adventurous...limitless and unconstrained. Lockdown period is the best time to learn something new. Set a golden benchmark... learning is a lifelong process...after you reach one goal...set your sights on the next goal. Keep reinventing yourself... unless you reinvent yourself, you'll become a big bore. Be someone, who loves unfamiliar but exciting new experiences... Prof Col Pradeep Pendyala ASRAM.

Will power...

Will power is like a muscle, the more you train it, stronger it gets. When I moved to Eluru from Hyderabad my wife challenged me that I won't last in Eluru for more than a month... because she knew about me so very well being my life partner for the last 35 years. Well, I lasted very well in Eluru and going strong. She must have thought, I'm used to urban lifestyle, five star food on a daily basis and of course my regular stage shows at RSI Secunderabad and my regular tennis 🎾. But she's definitely wrong ... although I'm passionate about those things...but my career and my professional life took precedence... Col Pradeep Pendyala, Professor, ASRAM