രോഗത്തെ പാട്ടിലാക്കിയ സര്‍ജറിക്കഥ
Channel: newsatnet
Date: 26/06/2021

Fb post by Dr Natasha Radhakrishnan:

Rocking with the rockstar! 

It is rare that the husband shares his routine workrelated stress and strains , preferring to bury it in the crevices of his own mind, lest he burdens me.However some of the "celebrity patient" related stress does boil over into my life and this was one such blockbuster "stresster"! 

The PATIENT ...A famous Rockstar musician from Maldives.( works in the airport but his passion was music) 

The TUMOUR...large, vicious, cruel, right in the speech area of right lobe of the brain.
The TWIST...he was left handed but had his right lobe dominant for speech( usually its the reverse, all right handed people and 80 percent of left handed people have left lobe dominant ) 

The final NAIL..he refused an "awake craniotomy"( where damage to speech area can be monitored intraoperatively by asking the patient to talk).He was too scared to be awake while going under the knife😢 which meant there was no way to monitor whether the speech area was getting damaged during the tumour removal.
He knew the risk was huge but he was optimistic and had supreme trust in his surgeon which added more steam to the surgeon's mental 'pressure cooker' .
Surgery went on well , tumour removed in toto...but no way to know what was his "vocal" outcome till he came off the ventilator.Sleepless night for the surgeon  ( and his wife😰) while the  team kept him on optimal postoperative management.
Next day morning , the surgeon went to see him, his heart in his mouth, wondering if, by his hands, he had strangled out the voice of this young man..that with killing his tumour had he killed his life , passion and  livelihood as well!! 

But, all was well! The Rockstar greeted his surgeon with his first words and soon, insisted he wanted to play for the surgeon..who gave him his life and his passion back. Strumming his guitar, the rockstar sang for the neurosurgeon and his team... 

I heard the story and the song and saw more than one rockstar!😜
Sudish Karunakaran ❤


Track: Woods
Music composed and recorded by Oak Studios
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https://youtu.be/eAiAlg22gqQ


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