16.11.15

Multiple big fibroids in a 50 years old lady, causing pain and bleeding. Patient an unmarried jovial lady, and a close friend of Dr Geetanjali. Removed at a total abdominal hysterectomy (patient’s logical choice). She was in Dr Geetanjali’s office a few months later and while we were discussing fibroids remarked happily: “I had the mother of fibroids!”

18.11.15

A distal radical gastrectomy in a 60 years old man (chronic smoker for a long time) for distal cancer causing gastric outlet obstruction. The tumor turned out to be bigger than expected (CT had only reported wall thickening of 2 cm), breaking through serosa and involving multiple lymph nodes above and below the pylorus, besides adhesions posteriorly with the pancreas.