This is an inspiring story of an 85-year old man who was an epitome of courage. He was borderline diabetic and had borderline hypertension. He had cardiac and kidney problems too to compound things. Yet he put up a brave face as he was vomiting profusely and showed signs of dehydration when he came visiting me.
Sivanesan was a 70 odd years old male. A seemingly healthy old man had an episode of weight loss and on a not so fine day he collapsed all of a sudden. He was rushed to a hospital in Chennai by his family members. Thereafter a series of tests were conducted that showed a mass in the pancreatic head and jaundice by the hospital. So doctors thought it could be pancreatic cancer. Were they right? Was their diagnosis right? Let us get the whole story.
This is about a story of a man, let’s name him Natarajan, who was an alcoholic. With his regular drinking habit, the man had made his liver so bad that he had developed liver cirrhosis as a result. As a responsible surgeon, I mostly resort to gently bashing my patients who have ailments due to their drinking habits. Old habits die hard and that is what I did that day when the said patient walked in.