We are still appealing for financial aid for this lady who had typhoid perforation and repair but subsequently had a breakdown, leading to the bringing out of her intestine outside her body to divert faces thereby allowing the abdomen healed properly before a final repair.
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Continued from yesterday. SHE CARRIES A BAG FOR FEACES.
EPISODE 2 ( nothing happened, that phrase was just to keep you curious and anticipate this part of the story😁) In the theatre, all was ready. We had our suction machine which kept acting up, the drain was made out of a catheter tube and because they had no donor for blood, I had to donate mine, a rare privilege for me. We scrubbed and donned, like space travellers who were set for a journey. We prayed and after she had been cleaned and draped, we began the procedure. On opening the abdomen, pus alongside fecal matter poured out, we suctioned quite a quantity. We proceeded to find the perforation and luckily found it amidst a coiled up intestine matted together. Carefully and diligently we separated them until we reached it. We repaired, irrigated properly, passed the drain and closed up. She was wheeled to the recovery room and after some hours, to the ward. She was stable. The drain kept being active for a while. The weather was debilitating on this very bright windless, hot, sunny afternoon. The sky was clear with very occasional scudding of lightly gathered clouds. I was in the office rummaging through my drawers for a piece of paper, when I suddenly heard the wailing of a woman, the voice must have been that of one, no doubt. She had brought herself to the facility and as is custom, the nurses swung into action. I didn't budge. It's a normal thing if you are a doctor especially.
Five minutes later she was somewhat calm, I was called upon and vitals shown to me. She had had a severe abdominal pain 4 days prior to presentation and treated herself for "typhoid and malaria" at some chemist but the pain persisted, she vomited and after the second day she noticed her stomach swelling and pain became unbearable. How she managed the third and fourth day she couldn't explain. |
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