In Your Eyes, the Collapse of My Medicine

What use is medicine, if my mother stumbles half-blind through the rubble, and her son the doctor stands behind a screen, helpless?”

Alone in his room in a faraway country, a young medical student waits for a call from home. When his mother’s face finally appears on the screen, he sees what no textbook has taught him to name: clouded eyes, swollen lids, and a pain that no medicine can reach.

Yet her voice is steady and tender. She asks if he has eaten, if he is warm, if he is sleeping well. Then she tells him how, half-blind, she walked alone through streets of ruin to find a hospital still alive.

In Your Eyes, the Collapse of My Medicine is a short, deeply personal story about the helplessness of distance, the quiet strength of a mother, and the faith that carries people through the darkest road. It is for anyone who has loved someone from far away, and wished to be near them when they needed it most.