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Doctor’s words

 I waited for half an hour alone in the waiting hall with anxiety about what the doctor might say. Dr.TSR came around 7 PM and said ‘Surgery went fine and now, the recovery depends on your father, then we can say whether the surgery is successful or not’. He also added ‘When we initially started surgery, we didn’t understand how to perform, as it looked quite complex inside BUT, then through God’s grace, we figured out a way and operated it so well’.

I finally felt relieved and conveyed the doctor’s message to the family. Hospital management said someone can go inside the ICU and look at your father. I and my brother don’t have enough courage then. So, I called my uncle upstairs and he went inside the ICU to see him. My uncle had seen him, but he hadn’t come to consciousness, and doctors in the ICU said that the surgery went so well. We were all relaxed after hearing it from the doctors.

When a patient is in the ICU, at least one of the patient attendees should stay back in the ICU waiting for the hall the whole night, to provide any required items needed for the patient. I stayed back and I requested the security to go inside out of visiting hours, to see my father at 10 PM. When I went inside the ICU, my father woke up but lying on the bed and I saw the staples around the upper part of his abdomen, he said that he was feeling thirsty and having pain. The attending doctors over there asked me to go outside, and we will take care of him.

I spoke to Dr.Aren about the surgery, he said that in simple terms, “the lower part of the stomach is removed”.

Diagnosis: Carcinoma pyloric antrum with gastric outlet obstruction

Surgical Procedure: Diagnostic laparoscopy proceeded to laparotomy + distal radical gastrectomy + antecolic gastrojejunostomy + feeding jejunostomy

Now, time for recovery………………..

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