THE MIRACULOUS CASE OF THE STOMACH CANCER PATIENT
HI ALL....WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT PLASTIC AND PLASTIC RECYCLING FOR A LONG TIME.SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE MIRACLE WHICH REALLY OCCURRED IN A PATIENT OF MINE LONG YEARS BACK.I HEARD ABOUT IT STRAIGHT FROM THE PATIENT'S RELATIVE THAT IS STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES' MOUTH.
YOU SEE I AM A GENERAL SURGEON IN THE PROPER SENSE .THAT MEANS I AM AN UROLOGIST,GASTRO INTESTINAL SURGEON,ENDOCRINE SURGEON,PLASTIC SURGEON ,COLORECTAL SURGEON AND BREAST SURGEON ALL ROLLED IN ONE.THERE WAS NO SUCH DIFFERENTIATION IN THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL I WORKED IN.A GENERAL SURGEON WAS A GENERAL SURGEON AND HAD TO PERFORM ALL TYPES OF SURGERY.
I HAVE EVEN PLASTERED PATIENTS WITH FRACTURES,PUT THEM ON TRACTION .I HAVE EVEN DONE ALL TYPES OF AMPUTATIONS INCLUDING MID THIGH AMPUTATION FOR GANGRENE IN DIABETIC PATIENTS.THAT WAS BEFORE THE HOSPITAL GOT ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS.THE AMPUTATIONS WE GENERAL SURGEONS HAD TO DO EVEN AFTER ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS CAME INTO THE SERVICE..BUT IN PRIVATE CLINICS THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS WERE MORE THAN WILLING TO PERFORM AMPUTATIONS!!!!
BACK TO OUR SUBJECT, IT WAS MANY YEARS BACK THIS HAPPENED.I WAS NOT INTO LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY AT THAT TIME. IT WAS PLAIN OPEN AND SHUT CASE!!! OPEN THE ABDOMEN ,DO THE SURGERY AND SHUT THE ABDOMEN AGAIN WITH SUTURES OR CLIPS.VERY RARELY I HAD TO OPEN AND CLOSE THE ABDOMEN WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING AFTER ONLY TAKING BIOPSY.
THE ERA OF CT SCANS,CT GUIDED BIOPSIES,MRI SCANS ETC HAD NOT BEGUN.EVEN ULTRASONOGRAPHY WE HAD LIMITED ACCESS TO.
WELL THIS PATIENT OF MINE WAS ADMITTED WITH ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT AND VOMITING.HE WAS NOT ABLE TO TAKE FOOD PROPERLY.SO I ORDERED A GASTROSCOPY AND BIOPSY IF NEEDED.
A GASTROSCOPE IS A FLEXIBLE FIBEROPTIC CABLE FITTED WITH CAMERA TO VIEW THE INSIDE OF STOMACH AND HAS A CHANNEL TO TAKE BIOPSIES.
WELL THIS PATIENT HAD A GASTROSCOPY AND THE ENDOSCOPIST TOOK A BIOPSY FROM THE TUMOUR HE FOUND. BIOPSY IS REMOVING SOME TISSUE FROM THE TUMOUR AND EXAMINING SLIDES MADE OUT FROM THE TISSUE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.WELL THE RESULTS CAME OUT AS ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH .
THAT IS STOMACH CANCER .
THE RELATIVES WERE INFORMED AND SURGERY DATE WAS FIXED.ARRANGEMENT FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION WAS MADE AND BLOOD POUCHES WERE COLLECTED.ON THE DATE OF SURGERY I WENT TO THE OPERATION THEATRE A BIT EARLIER TO PREPARE MYSELF SINCE I THOUGHT A MAJOR SURGERY HAD TO BE DONE.THAT IS REMOVAL OF AT LEAST THREE FOURTHS PORTION FROM THE STOMACH.
I OPENED THE ABDOMEN AND FOUND THAT THE TUMOUR WAS AN IRREMOVABLE ONE AND WAS FIXED FIRMLY TO ADJACENT STRUCTURES.ALL I COULD DO WAS A BY PASS SURGERY TO DIVERT FOOD FROM THE INVOLVED PORTION.
I ANASTAMOSED,THAT IS JOINED THE PROXIMAL PORTION OF THE STOMACH TO THE ADJOINING SMALL BOWEL SO THAT FOOD COULD DIRECTLY PASS FROM THE FOOD PIPE THROGH THE FREE PART OF THE STOMACH INTO THE THE INTESTINES SO THAT THE PATIENT WOULD BE ABLE TO EAT TILL HE SURVIVED.
IT WAS AN ADVANCED CASE OF CANCER AND NOTHING ELSE COULD BE DONE EXCEPT SEND HIM TO THE ONCOLOGIST(AN ONCOLOGIST DEALS WITH CANCER THERAPY LIKE CHEMOTHERAPY,RADIOTHERAPY ETC) FOR FURTHER TREATMENT.I WAITED FOR THE BIOPSY REPORT FOR THE TISSUE I SENT TO THE LABORATORY.
DOUBTLESSLY THE REPORT CAME OUT TO BE A VERY BAD VARIETY OF STOMACH CANCER.
STOMACH CANCER OPERATED
THE PATIENT WAS GETTING MORE AND MORE EMACIATED DAY BY DAY.HE WAS BARELY ABLE TO GET DOWN FROM THE BED WITH SUPPORT. AFTER REMOVAL OF STITCHES,I TOLD THE RELATIVES OF THE PATIENT THAT I WILL SEND THE PATIENT TO THE ONCOLOGIST. CURIOUSLY THE RELATIVES TOLD ME THAT THEY WANT TO TAKE THE PATIENT TO A PRIEST .THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WOULD RETURN SHORTLY AND CONTINUE THE TREATMENT.I TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT URGENT TREATMENT WAS INDICATED.BUT THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN TO ME AND TOOK THE PATIENT AWAY.BY THIS TIME THE PATIENT WAS SO EMACIATED THAT HE COULD NOT WALK AND HE HAD TO BE CARRIED ON A STRETCHER.
WELL DAYS PASSED AND THE PATIENT DID NOT RETURN.I THOUGHT THAT THE WORST HAD HAPPENED AND THE PATIENT HAD DIED.I WAS SO BUSY IN THAT HOSPITAL I BARELY GOT TIME TO PONDER OVER THAT PATIENT.THE THE MEMORIES DWINDLED AND GRADUALLY I FORGOT THE INCIDENT.
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS I WAS CALLED TO SEE AN EMERGENCY SURGICAL PATIENT
IN CASUALTY.I FINISHED EXAMINING THE PATIENT AND WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE AFTER GIVING MY ADVICE.IT WAS THEN I REALISED THAT A GENTLEMAN STANDING ASIDE WAS SMILING AT ME.I LOOKED UP AND HE ASKED ME IF I REMEMBERED HIM.I COULD NOT RECOLLECT SEEING HIM.HE TOLD ME" I AM THE RELATIVE OF THE PATIENT WITH STOMACH CANCER YOU OPERATED SEVERAL YEARS BACK."I GOT INTERESTED AND ASKED HIM WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PATIENT.
THE ANSWER HE CAME ME ASTONISHED ME.HE SAID "YOUR PATIENT IS ALRIGHT AND DOING FARMING IN HIS VILLAGE". I ASKED HIM WHAT HAPPENED AND THEN HE CAME OUT WITH THIS MIRACULOUS EXPLANATION OF A REAL MIRACLE.AND I LISTENED SPELLBOUND.
HE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAD TAKEN THE PATIENT ON A STRETCHER TO A PLACE CALLED KAMDEVPUR NEAR L9 BUS TERMINUS IN BARASAT.WEST BENGAL.THERE IS A MASJID OR A MUSLIM TEMPLE THERE. WELL THEY TOOK THE PATIENT TO THE TEMPLE AND THE DOOR WAS CLOSED AND A HINDU PRIEST SAT INSIDE.THE PRIEST TOLD THEM FROM THE OTHER SIDE EVEN WITHOUT SEEING THE PATIENT THAT HE HAD UNDERGONE SURGERY AND THE DOCTORS HAVE TOLD THEM IT IS CANCER.HE TOLD THEM THE CURE WOULD BE DIFFICULT BUT HE WOULD TRY.
THE PRIEST GAVE THEM SOME MEDICINES AND ASKED THEM TO COME FOR REVIEW.NO MONEY INVOLVED EXCEPT PERHAPS A NEGLIGIBLE SUM FOR THE MEDICINES.
THE PATIENT GRADUALLY IMPROVED AND THE NEXT TIME HE COULD GO THERE WITH SUPPORT.HIS HEALTH ALSO IMPROVED.AND FINALLY HE COULD WALK HIMSELF AND THE PRIEST CAME HIM A CLEAN CHIT.SO HE QUIT HIS JOB,WENT TO HIS NATIVE VILLAGE AND STARTED FARMING.
I LISTENED AWESTRUCK AND FELT VERY VERY PUNY.THE PRIEST HAD CURED BY A MIRACLE A PROVED CASE OF ADVANCED CANCER.WELL I BECAME A BELIEVER IN MIRACLES FROM THEN.ALWAYS I HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD AND THAT HE IS CAPABLE OF MIRACLES.NOW I EXPERIENCED ONE BEFORE MY EYES.MY BELIEF IN GOD INCREASED BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS.WHO ARE WE ?WE ARE HELPED BY GOD TO CURE PATIENTS .WE DO OUR DUTIES AND IT IS GOD WHO CURES THEM.
THAT IS WHY THE ENGLISH MOVIE "MIRACLES IN HEAVEN"IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES.IT DESCRIBES HOW A SMALL GIRL WITH AN INCURABLE DISEASE GOT CURED AFTER SHE FELL SEVERAL FEET INTO A DEAD COTTON TREE AND GOT RESCUED.MIRACULOUSLY AFTER THE RESCUE,SHE GRADUALLY IMPROVED AND WAS CURED COMPLETELY.THAT MOVIE WAS ALSO BASED ON A REAL LIFE INCIDENT.
SO MAN THINKS HE IS INVINCIBLE BUT THERE IS A GOD OVER THERE WATCHING OVER US ALL.
YOU SEE I AM A GENERAL SURGEON IN THE PROPER SENSE .THAT MEANS I AM AN UROLOGIST,GASTRO INTESTINAL SURGEON,ENDOCRINE SURGEON,PLASTIC SURGEON ,COLORECTAL SURGEON AND BREAST SURGEON ALL ROLLED IN ONE.THERE WAS NO SUCH DIFFERENTIATION IN THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL I WORKED IN.A GENERAL SURGEON WAS A GENERAL SURGEON AND HAD TO PERFORM ALL TYPES OF SURGERY.
I HAVE EVEN PLASTERED PATIENTS WITH FRACTURES,PUT THEM ON TRACTION .I HAVE EVEN DONE ALL TYPES OF AMPUTATIONS INCLUDING MID THIGH AMPUTATION FOR GANGRENE IN DIABETIC PATIENTS.THAT WAS BEFORE THE HOSPITAL GOT ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS.THE AMPUTATIONS WE GENERAL SURGEONS HAD TO DO EVEN AFTER ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS CAME INTO THE SERVICE..BUT IN PRIVATE CLINICS THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS WERE MORE THAN WILLING TO PERFORM AMPUTATIONS!!!!
BACK TO OUR SUBJECT, IT WAS MANY YEARS BACK THIS HAPPENED.I WAS NOT INTO LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY AT THAT TIME. IT WAS PLAIN OPEN AND SHUT CASE!!! OPEN THE ABDOMEN ,DO THE SURGERY AND SHUT THE ABDOMEN AGAIN WITH SUTURES OR CLIPS.VERY RARELY I HAD TO OPEN AND CLOSE THE ABDOMEN WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING AFTER ONLY TAKING BIOPSY.
THE ERA OF CT SCANS,CT GUIDED BIOPSIES,MRI SCANS ETC HAD NOT BEGUN.EVEN ULTRASONOGRAPHY WE HAD LIMITED ACCESS TO.
WELL THIS PATIENT OF MINE WAS ADMITTED WITH ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT AND VOMITING.HE WAS NOT ABLE TO TAKE FOOD PROPERLY.SO I ORDERED A GASTROSCOPY AND BIOPSY IF NEEDED.
A GASTROSCOPE IS A FLEXIBLE FIBEROPTIC CABLE FITTED WITH CAMERA TO VIEW THE INSIDE OF STOMACH AND HAS A CHANNEL TO TAKE BIOPSIES.
THE TUBE IS INSERTED THROUGH THE MOUTH UNDER LOCAL ANAESTHESIA AND FED DOWN THE OESOPHAGUS OR FOOD PIPE AND INTO THE STOMACH.SO THAT THE STOMACH CAN BE VISUALISED TO RULE OUT ULCER,TUMOURS BOTH BENIGN AND MALIGNANT.
WELL THIS PATIENT HAD A GASTROSCOPY AND THE ENDOSCOPIST TOOK A BIOPSY FROM THE TUMOUR HE FOUND. BIOPSY IS REMOVING SOME TISSUE FROM THE TUMOUR AND EXAMINING SLIDES MADE OUT FROM THE TISSUE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.WELL THE RESULTS CAME OUT AS ADENOCARCINOMA OF STOMACH .
THAT IS STOMACH CANCER .
THE RELATIVES WERE INFORMED AND SURGERY DATE WAS FIXED.ARRANGEMENT FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION WAS MADE AND BLOOD POUCHES WERE COLLECTED.ON THE DATE OF SURGERY I WENT TO THE OPERATION THEATRE A BIT EARLIER TO PREPARE MYSELF SINCE I THOUGHT A MAJOR SURGERY HAD TO BE DONE.THAT IS REMOVAL OF AT LEAST THREE FOURTHS PORTION FROM THE STOMACH.
I OPENED THE ABDOMEN AND FOUND THAT THE TUMOUR WAS AN IRREMOVABLE ONE AND WAS FIXED FIRMLY TO ADJACENT STRUCTURES.ALL I COULD DO WAS A BY PASS SURGERY TO DIVERT FOOD FROM THE INVOLVED PORTION.
I ANASTAMOSED,THAT IS JOINED THE PROXIMAL PORTION OF THE STOMACH TO THE ADJOINING SMALL BOWEL SO THAT FOOD COULD DIRECTLY PASS FROM THE FOOD PIPE THROGH THE FREE PART OF THE STOMACH INTO THE THE INTESTINES SO THAT THE PATIENT WOULD BE ABLE TO EAT TILL HE SURVIVED.
IT WAS AN ADVANCED CASE OF CANCER AND NOTHING ELSE COULD BE DONE EXCEPT SEND HIM TO THE ONCOLOGIST(AN ONCOLOGIST DEALS WITH CANCER THERAPY LIKE CHEMOTHERAPY,RADIOTHERAPY ETC) FOR FURTHER TREATMENT.I WAITED FOR THE BIOPSY REPORT FOR THE TISSUE I SENT TO THE LABORATORY.
DOUBTLESSLY THE REPORT CAME OUT TO BE A VERY BAD VARIETY OF STOMACH CANCER.
STOMACH CANCER THROUGH GASTROSCOPE
STOMACH CANCER OPERATED
THE PATIENT WAS GETTING MORE AND MORE EMACIATED DAY BY DAY.HE WAS BARELY ABLE TO GET DOWN FROM THE BED WITH SUPPORT. AFTER REMOVAL OF STITCHES,I TOLD THE RELATIVES OF THE PATIENT THAT I WILL SEND THE PATIENT TO THE ONCOLOGIST. CURIOUSLY THE RELATIVES TOLD ME THAT THEY WANT TO TAKE THE PATIENT TO A PRIEST .THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WOULD RETURN SHORTLY AND CONTINUE THE TREATMENT.I TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT URGENT TREATMENT WAS INDICATED.BUT THEY WOULD NOT LISTEN TO ME AND TOOK THE PATIENT AWAY.BY THIS TIME THE PATIENT WAS SO EMACIATED THAT HE COULD NOT WALK AND HE HAD TO BE CARRIED ON A STRETCHER.
WELL DAYS PASSED AND THE PATIENT DID NOT RETURN.I THOUGHT THAT THE WORST HAD HAPPENED AND THE PATIENT HAD DIED.I WAS SO BUSY IN THAT HOSPITAL I BARELY GOT TIME TO PONDER OVER THAT PATIENT.THE THE MEMORIES DWINDLED AND GRADUALLY I FORGOT THE INCIDENT.
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS I WAS CALLED TO SEE AN EMERGENCY SURGICAL PATIENT
IN CASUALTY.I FINISHED EXAMINING THE PATIENT AND WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE AFTER GIVING MY ADVICE.IT WAS THEN I REALISED THAT A GENTLEMAN STANDING ASIDE WAS SMILING AT ME.I LOOKED UP AND HE ASKED ME IF I REMEMBERED HIM.I COULD NOT RECOLLECT SEEING HIM.HE TOLD ME" I AM THE RELATIVE OF THE PATIENT WITH STOMACH CANCER YOU OPERATED SEVERAL YEARS BACK."I GOT INTERESTED AND ASKED HIM WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PATIENT.
THE ANSWER HE CAME ME ASTONISHED ME.HE SAID "YOUR PATIENT IS ALRIGHT AND DOING FARMING IN HIS VILLAGE". I ASKED HIM WHAT HAPPENED AND THEN HE CAME OUT WITH THIS MIRACULOUS EXPLANATION OF A REAL MIRACLE.AND I LISTENED SPELLBOUND.
HE TOLD ME THAT THEY HAD TAKEN THE PATIENT ON A STRETCHER TO A PLACE CALLED KAMDEVPUR NEAR L9 BUS TERMINUS IN BARASAT.WEST BENGAL.THERE IS A MASJID OR A MUSLIM TEMPLE THERE. WELL THEY TOOK THE PATIENT TO THE TEMPLE AND THE DOOR WAS CLOSED AND A HINDU PRIEST SAT INSIDE.THE PRIEST TOLD THEM FROM THE OTHER SIDE EVEN WITHOUT SEEING THE PATIENT THAT HE HAD UNDERGONE SURGERY AND THE DOCTORS HAVE TOLD THEM IT IS CANCER.HE TOLD THEM THE CURE WOULD BE DIFFICULT BUT HE WOULD TRY.
THE PRIEST GAVE THEM SOME MEDICINES AND ASKED THEM TO COME FOR REVIEW.NO MONEY INVOLVED EXCEPT PERHAPS A NEGLIGIBLE SUM FOR THE MEDICINES.
THE PATIENT GRADUALLY IMPROVED AND THE NEXT TIME HE COULD GO THERE WITH SUPPORT.HIS HEALTH ALSO IMPROVED.AND FINALLY HE COULD WALK HIMSELF AND THE PRIEST CAME HIM A CLEAN CHIT.SO HE QUIT HIS JOB,WENT TO HIS NATIVE VILLAGE AND STARTED FARMING.
I LISTENED AWESTRUCK AND FELT VERY VERY PUNY.THE PRIEST HAD CURED BY A MIRACLE A PROVED CASE OF ADVANCED CANCER.WELL I BECAME A BELIEVER IN MIRACLES FROM THEN.ALWAYS I HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD AND THAT HE IS CAPABLE OF MIRACLES.NOW I EXPERIENCED ONE BEFORE MY EYES.MY BELIEF IN GOD INCREASED BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS.WHO ARE WE ?WE ARE HELPED BY GOD TO CURE PATIENTS .WE DO OUR DUTIES AND IT IS GOD WHO CURES THEM.
THAT IS WHY THE ENGLISH MOVIE "MIRACLES IN HEAVEN"IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITES.IT DESCRIBES HOW A SMALL GIRL WITH AN INCURABLE DISEASE GOT CURED AFTER SHE FELL SEVERAL FEET INTO A DEAD COTTON TREE AND GOT RESCUED.MIRACULOUSLY AFTER THE RESCUE,SHE GRADUALLY IMPROVED AND WAS CURED COMPLETELY.THAT MOVIE WAS ALSO BASED ON A REAL LIFE INCIDENT.
SO MAN THINKS HE IS INVINCIBLE BUT THERE IS A GOD OVER THERE WATCHING OVER US ALL.
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