A cross between Omar Sharif and Benny Hill*, he specialises in lower bowel operations, hence perhaps for the wry smile on his face? Now, we've all got a bowel and mine was giving me pain. Those cardboard test sticks with which many of us do unpleasant things every year had been boringly negative for years but I just felt that things down below were not normal.
I rest my case
I went to see GP Bill Hall who, slightly to my alarm gave me a fast track referral for a colonoscopy, based in part on my age but also the half dozen or so tick boxes on his computer.. Good job he did too. It was performed in days by fellow surgeon at Airedale Mr Rajashekhar Rao. Not to put too fine a point on it (and who would?) it's camera and lighting up your bum time. Not many inches northwards Mr Rao said "Uh-oh" and could not get his camera up any further without difficulty. He took biopsies. Sure enough it was cancer and needed removal quickly. We needed to know if it had spread so full body CT and other scans were ordered.
Long story short, Mr Khan operated on me early on 10th November, removed a section of gut plus egg sized tumour then plumbed everything back together. He said it looked to him like a self contained tumour but they would not know until the results of histology tests next week. If not, it's chemo time.
I was out of hospital and home in three days, thanks to Mr Khan and his skill at keyhole surgery.
Thank you my Khan, from the heart of my bottom.
On my re-admission to hospital I showed this posting to Mr Khan, in a spirit of freedom of information etc. He showed no emotion whilst reading it then eventually asked 'Who is Benny Hill?'
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