FIBROIDS Fibroids have become a real medical dilemma especially among us career women who get into the family way very late either in the mid 30s or early 40s. I have seen patients who have come in and narrated to me how fibroids have totally messed up their lives. So what exactly is fibroids?? Fibroids […]
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This morning, I woke up to read the Paul Kalanithi story. He was a top neurosurgeon at Stanford who succumbed to metastatic lung cancer at the age of 37 earlier this month. He had written numerous essays, “How Long Have I Got Left?” for The New York Times and “Before I Go” for Stanford Medicine,
Two weeks of silence. I’m back! I have been extremely busy during the weekdays and a tourist by the weekends. No excuse, I have been lazy!!!! This week, KCSE results were released. It’s also on Monday that my boss and I were anxiously going through our ‘KCSE’ results ; our weekly histopathological reports from Agakhan
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…………… False pregnancy, phantom pregnancy, or hysterical pregnancy—commonly called pseudocyesis in humans and pseudopregnancy in other mammals—is the appearance of clinical or subclinical signs and symptoms associated with pregnancy when the organism is not actually pregnant. I have encountered this condition more than once and I found it very interesting. I had a case of
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ABORTIONS AMONG MARRIED WOMEN This past week, I witnessed a rising number of abortions among married women. I really couldn’t understand what would make a married woman want to terminate a child born within the family unit. If it were a teenager or a single woman, or even a widow, I would understand. Kenyan
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This week I assigned myself the task to make a presentation about Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) to my colleagues in Chaaria. Its a silent killer that kills in seconds. It reminds me of the death of a popular TV personality who was found dead on her bathroom floor sometime in September. Rumors went round about
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Following the previous week’s post on cancers, I did get many responses, comments, suggestions, cancer stories that made me cry e.t.c. Of note was a message from ‘Brian'(not his real name), one of my cancer patients aged 21. He messaged to ask why I had not included his story in the post. I had actually
It’s Monday the 19th January 2015 at 5.30p.m and I’m lazing on my couch trying to review something. My mum calls me and tells me that she has not seen my blog-post for the week. I told her that I didn’t feel like writing because my last two posts did not get much reads. She
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It’s the 1st of January 2015 at around 8.00a.m and I’m lazing on my bed in Machakos. My mum walks in to wake me up and immediately after wishing her a happy new year I ask her if there are any PPI’s (antacids) in the house. I was bloated, having serious GERD, hyperacidity and was convinced
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For the first time I almost slapped a patient’s mother. Yeah, that’s right . I was told that i was heard quarreling. I was livid. A very young girl was giving me a history of having been raped 4 times over 4 months by a person well known to her but the mother was not
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