My clinical experience 2

     

 Friday12, October 2012

Government chest hospital, Erragadda:-

Today our pulmonology P.G told us to take a case of a woman named Mangali, a patient with Spindle Cell Sarcoma.

This is the first time I saw an SCS case. Mangali who is about 50 yrs old is from Nalgonda District. She is pale, cachexic, with scaled skin, prominent dark circles around eyes, with no hair on her scalp & looked intensely depressed. 

About a year ago, she had a mass growing at her left ankle, which was then excised & diagnosed as SCS. Since then she is on chemotherapy in MMJ cancer hospital. Slowly, the Sarcoma metastasized to her left lung in such an extent that it is untreatable.Then she was informed that she couldn’t be treated anymore and was discharged.

With a faint hope that she would be back to normal, she came in search of chest hospital. As her illness is out of control, no one could help her here also. She was explained the same that she would not survive for more than 2 months.

She cried so badly when she came to know that her life would end in a short span. She and her husband were gazing at us and our professors with tears rolling down their eyes. With grief and sorrow, blaming the Almighty for their fate, the couple left the wards.

This incident had a great emotional impact on me. With great difficult I could control my grief. I learnt how valuable our life is… how fortunate we are, than many others who were caught in clutches of dreadful diseases.

Hmm… from that day, whenever I encounter patients with malignancies in my postings, Mangali’s innocent face will strike in my mind!! I don’t know whether she is alive now or not!!  (9th December, 2012)