Another busy day for us at JFK today with a few interesting sidelights. We had a bunch of hernias, an abdominal exploration and repositioning of a stoma, and a ruptured retro-cecal appendicitis. The appendicitis case is a friend of Masmina who had a couple of days of pain and then went to a clinic where he had an ultrasound which showed a probable ruptured appendix with a complex abscess. Apparently his initial thought was that he would fly to Ghana for laparoscopic surgery, but he soon realized that was not feasible, We arranged for him to be admitted to JFK last night and started on IV antibiotics with plans for surgery today. We did his surgery in the afternoon, and it was certainly a challenge but the goal was accomplished. He is recovering now.
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