We woke up to a rainy day today after rain most of the night. As this is farming season, people are happy for the rain.
I did not have any elective cases but did have 2 emergency cases. The first was a little 3-year-old who had a typhoid intestinal perforation. I did a laparotomy and oversewed the hole. Hopefully he will do well. There is about a 25% mortality rate.
The second case was late this afternoon. A 70+ year old woman with an incarcerated inguinal hernia. I can assure you, you do not want to see pictures from that case. She had a small loop of necrotic bowel and needed to have that part removed. We resected the dead bowel and then joined the two ends back together.
I don't have any pictures of the patients or the cases but here is one of me getting ready to do the incarcerated hernia.
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