“In My Head I Was Done With Medicine” – Peruzzi On Deserting Medical School.
Nigerian singer, Tobechukwu Victor Okoh, popularly known as Peruzzi Vibes has explained the reason for abandoning medical school.
The artiste said he was mentally drained while studying Medicine and Surgery at the Odessa National University in Ukraine. He revealed that he couldn’t go any further, as he wanted to follow his passion in music.
In his words, “I got tired for real, for real. I never felt like that in my life. I was done, like everything about me, in my head I was done with medicine. And that was when I was about to start my final year so it was a lot. I had written my first MD already at the time. It wasn’t about how long I had left at the time, it was about me not wanting to do anything again. I didn’t want to do it anymore,”
He studied until his fifth year where he got overwhelmed. He was able to confide in his mother who gave him a condition of providing his results to prove that he was actually in school before his return.
“I really got tired, my entire being was tired so I left on the first of January and I didn’t even have my passport, I had lost it. So I went to the embassy and they gave me a travel letter because I needed to leave that urgently. When I got back the only person I told was my mum. I was able to explain how bad I was feeling and she said I should make sure to come back with my school results and everything from the first year to show that I was in school so I did.” Peruzzi said.
He couldn’t explain to his father why he was at home when he returned to Nigeria, and his mother hadn’t told him either.
Peruzzi revealed that because he was home during a non-holiday season, people in his father’s church at the time began to murmur among themselves that he had dropped out. He wasn’t fazed by this and seems to have no regrets about his decision to drop out of school.
