Dr Mohinder Singh's blog

Disastrous summer vacation this time (1 july to 31 july)

6.7.16 Had a fall at home (tripped while coming out of the bathroom) at around midnight and fractured the neck of right femur. This was fixed with 4 cannulated screws (zimmer) the next day (7.7.16).

The healing time for this fracture is very long (up to 6 months) and the convalescence painfully slow but if one is lucky and remains active and in a positive frame of mind, it does heal in 3 months time. Mine is healing slowly and I am able to walk with a cane or a walker with partial weight bearing on the leg now.

Three and a half months after the fracture, the x-ray picture was considered satisfactory.

Some earlier stories

23.5.16

Binu joined MD course in DMC Ludhiana, having shifted from paediatrics which she had joined already ( and found it too stressful!). Saw Dr Bajwa (HOD) there and had some nice time with him after so many years.

28.5.16

A lesson relearnt. A failed lap appy converted to find a surprise. The thick and short appendix actually hid a small hard growth in the caecum. A right hemicolectomy was done. Cut section showed a stenosing growth.

19-20 june: conducted the PG surgery exam as internal examiner along with other examiners.

29.6.16

Incisional hernia (following TAH through transverse incision!), repaired with mesh the defect through the right side of the incision. Patient an MD anesthesia herself (Dr Parminder from Sangrur CH).