Help for man with lipoma growth
Skhosana, who lives at extension 16 in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni, was suffering for two years before eventually consulting with a medical doctor at Pholosong Hospital in December. He was diagnosed with lipoma on the neck and referred to the surgical outpatient department for further investigation.
When Health-e first reported the story earlier this year Skhosana had been given a date for January 25 at the Surgical Outpatient Department.
As family we are very excited because my father will be able to live a normal life again. Young children used to laugh and make fun of him on the streets.
“I went to the hospital for my appointment and I was admitted for three days. I must say that the doctors did a very good job because they managed to remove this thing. I can feel that 2017 is going to be my year,” said Skhosana, soon after his surgery.
‘Normal life’
Skosana’s daughter, Francinah (38), said “As a family we are very excited because my father will be able to live a normal life again. Young children used to laugh and make fun of him on the streets. We would like to say a big thank you to Pholosong Hospital.”
Thabisile Mkhwanazi, spokesperson for Pholosong Hospital, said that the hospital urges members of the community to visit their nearest clinics as soon they suspect that they have something wrong with them.
“If people experience any changes or abnormalities, whether physical or generally with their health, they must have it investigated by a health professional and not wait until it is too late,” she said.
Skhosana is now a relieved and happy man. He no longer suffers discomfort, and is no long the target of comments and stares.
Author
Republish this article
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Unless otherwise noted, you can republish our articles for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s what you need to know:
-
You have to credit Health-e News. In the byline, we prefer “Author Name, Publication.” At the top of the text of your story, include a line that reads: “This story was originally published by Health-e News.” You must link the word “Health-e News” to the original URL of the story.
-
You must include all of the links from our story, including our newsletter sign up link.
-
If you use canonical metadata, please use the Health-e News URL. For more information about canonical metadata, click here.
-
You can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. (For example, “yesterday” can be changed to “last week”)
-
You have no rights to sell, license, syndicate, or otherwise represent yourself as the authorized owner of our material to any third parties. This means that you cannot actively publish or submit our work for syndication to third party platforms or apps like Apple News or Google News. Health-e News understands that publishers cannot fully control when certain third parties automatically summarise or crawl content from publishers’ own sites.
-
You can’t republish our material wholesale, or automatically; you need to select stories to be republished individually.
-
If you share republished stories on social media, we’d appreciate being tagged in your posts. You can find us on Twitter @HealthENews, Instagram @healthenews, and Facebook Health-e News Service.
You can grab HTML code for our stories easily. Click on the Creative Commons logo on our stories. You’ll find it with the other share buttons.
If you have any other questions, contact info@health-e.org.za.
Help for man with lipoma growth
by EsauDlamini, Health-e News
March 17, 2017