In Iranian culture with the start of spring, people start to celebrate. For 15 days, most institutions are closed for holidays. As such, I was staying home too. I was spending my time by watching TV and doing other relaxing things. One night, while I was lying down and looking at the ceiling, I felt … Read more
I am actually a volunteer and I work in a laboratory performing bio-medical analysis. I am happy just being able to learn there. On the January 6, I saw a colleague was having a problem opening an autoclave, so I asked her if she needed help. Both of us tried to open up that mechanism. … Read more
Sound and music are two different qualities of expression, and both have always been equally important to me as an extension of my artistic nature. I didn’t choose either as a career or vocational path. I focused, instead, on graphics arts because I needed a dependable paycheck. Over the past three decades, I became so … Read more
I fought with all my strength to stay conscious as I suffocated, because I thought if I passed out, he wouldn’t stop and I would die. But then I did lose consciousness. The moment I lost consciousness, I popped up out of my body. Immediately I heard a voice from the corner of the room … Read more
I was eighteen years of age, decent, tough and innocent to the ways of the world. I was in the city one night and encountered a gang of twenty or more knife-wielding thugs who wished me serious harm. I fought them off as best I could but with the odds being so overwhelming, I had … Read more
They had to operate on me a second time to extract the liquid that was surrounding my heart and lungs. This was making it very hard to breathe. They found it was full of Staphylococcus aureus. Some patients are able to hear and feel much earlier than others, after anesthesia. I realized that the surgery … Read more