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57.Marriage Alliance of son to a doctor family

 Briefly,  I had  mentioned about the  career  of my son in an earlier  episode. After  completing his  MBBS from Calicut  Medical College, he prepared for the  Post Graduate  Medical Entrance and got admission for  Diploma  in Paediatrics  first  based on All Indian Entrance   rank and later  got admission to MD (Radiodiagnosis)  both  in Calicut  Medical College.  Along with the  MD, he also completed the requirements for Diplomate  of National Board (DNB) and started  practicing  in  a private  hospital  in Calicut, enjoying mummy’s home food all along. Later  he moved to another    hospital where  some work on interventional radiology was being done. He was also planning to write  the examinations for the  Fellowship of the Royal College  of Radiologists(FRCR,UK).

 

While  these were going on, we asked him whether we can try  to get a  girl for him. When he gave us the green signal, we  were  on the lookout for a suitable  girl, preferably  from the same  profession. Soon enquiries  started  coming in and among these  one was from a family of doctors in Thiruvananthapuram. The  girl had completed MBBS  from Thiruvananthapuram  Medical College  and was  doing her  house surgency. During the  first MBBS, she  had studied in Calicut  Medical College as her father was  on the  faculty  here. The  girl  was  from a family  of surgeons, her  father  a cardio-thoracic surgeon and later Medical Superintendent in Sri Chitra Medical Institute, uncle  a general surgeon running his  own Surgical clinic  both retired professors from Medical College Thiruvananthapuram.( Now  her  only brother  is also a heart  surgeon  in Sri Chitra  Medical Centre TVM).

 

So, we  requested our daughter’s in-laws in TVM to go and see the girl and tell us what they think of her as a match for  our son. They reported  that  the girl  is just like  our daughter, always smiling  and will  be an ideal  match for  our boy.  So, there was    nothing more to think, the family was  like  ours, girl  nice and of the same  profession and  as  usual, the formalities like  the boy meeting  the girl, her family coming to  us  in Calicut and we  going  to their house  were  completed soon. As   they were ardent devotees  of Guruvayurapan, we decided to have  the  wedding  ceremony at Guruvayur. After the wedding, we  arranged a small  reception  for  our friends and  colleagues at Azhakodi  temple marriage hall. Similarly, the  bride’s family  arranged a  reception at Trivandrum  Club. Our  son continued  his job in the private  hospital and  his wife started  her  preparation  for PG entrance.  

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