From my middle school days, i remember a poem in which the poetess describes a visit to the dentist as the most horrifying and embarassing thing of one's life.

I am pretty sure that poetess hadn't heard of a disease called "Pilonidal sinus". Else the subject would have been quite different.

Pilonidal sinus is a rare disease found in young men and women (more in former) with a probability of 1 in 100. And somehow i got destined to be that "1 " in 100. In my very short life of 25 yrs this is my second 'rare disease' experience....some yrs back i was diagnosed of having "herpese zoster"....another ghastly disease! Sometimes it occurs to me...i can be a good specimen or a case study for rare diseases for young doctors.....dont know how many more are in the offing for me.

During the surgery for the removal of deadly sinus, while doctors were busy doing their stuffs, i thought to myself how helpless sometimes a person can get?? Just a day prior to the surgery i was a healthy person with loads of ego and ambitions. I was concerned about my appearance, my dressing style.....now i laid there on the table in bare minimum 'patient' uniform completely on the mercy of some masked men. One small mistake from them could have had a life time effect on me.
I just thought if a single gadget there went wrong, what would happen to all my plans....worries... ambitions??? I concluded, we take our lives too seriously planning the minutest move...not realizing the huge uncertainity that looms over us with every coming second !