DR WP DE BEER SPECIALIST SURGEON

ON 21/8/2019 DR WP DE BEER DID A Laparoscopic bilateral recurrent inguinal hernia repair ON ME, THIS AFTER WE HAD DISCUSSED MY PROBLEM IN DETAIL. I HAD HAD A LEFT AND RIGHT HERNIA REPAIRED SOME FIVE YEARS EARLIER AND IT WAS AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER AS THE OPEN SURGERY WOUND OPENED AND SEPTICEMIA THREATENED. SO THAT WAS TWO WEEKS IN HOSPITAL THAT I DID NOT WANT TO REPEAT. NOW THE LEFT AND RIGHT HERNIAS HAD OPENED AGAIN AND IN FEAR OF ANOTHER OP I NEGLECTED THEM UNTIL THEY GOT INTOLERABLY BAD. SO I CONSULTED WITH DR DE BEER AND TOLD HIM THAT AT MY AGE OF 81 I DID NOT WANT OPEN SURGERY. SO HE SAID HE WAS AN EXPERT IN LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY AND WOULD DO THAT. BUT HE SAID BEARING IN MIND MY AGE AND THE NEGLECTED STATE OF THE HERNIAS THE PROCEDURE WOULD BE DIFFICULT.

SO HE DID THE OPERATION IN AUGUST 2019 AND ALL WENT WELL AND I WAS RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER TWO DAYS. AFTER A FEW MORE DAYS A TERRIBLE PAIN SET IN OVER THE LEFT OPERATION AREA AND ON FEELING AROUND I FELT A LARGE LUMP WHERE THE OP HAD TAKEN PLACE. SO I WENT TO SEE MY GP WHO SENT ME FOR XRAYS AND THE VERDICT WAS THAT THE LUMP WAS LEFT OVER FROM INCOMPLETE SURGERY.

SO BACK I WENT TO SEE DR DE BEER AND HE GAVE ME A THOROUGH EXAMINATION AND SAID THE LUMP WAS INDEED LEFT OVER FROM THE OP, BUT THE HERNIA REPAIR HAD BEEN A COMPLETE SUCCESS. HE SAID THE LUMP WOULD DISAPPEAR IN THE NEXT SIX WEEKS AND THE SEVERE PAIN I WAS SUFFERING WAS REFERRED FROM MY BACK PAIN WHICH I HAD HAD FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS.

AFTER SOME WEEKS HAD PASSED THE PAIN AND LUMP WOULD NOT GO AWAY, SO IN OCTOBER 2019 DR DE BEER RE-ADMITTED ME BACK TO HOSPITAL FOR FIVE DAYS OF EXTENSIVE TESTS, XRAYS AND A COLONOSCOPY. THE RESULTS WERE THE SAME:- DR DE BEER REINFORCED HIS EARLIER OPINION; THAT THE LUMP HAD SHRUNK AND WOULD BE GONE IN THE COMING WEEKS. THAT THE SEVERE PAIN WAS REFERRED FROM MY BACK AND WOULD ALSO NORMALISE IN THE COMING WEEKS.

AND SO IT DID. AS I WRITE THIS IN MARCH 2020 THE LUMP HAS GONE COMPLETELY AND THE PAIN HAS SETTLED ITSELF BACK IN MY BACK WHERE IT ALWAYS WAS. THE LAPAROSCOPIC OP THAT SPECIALIST SURGEON DR WP DE BEER DID IS A COMPLETE SUCCESS! THE GOOD DOCTOR SAID MY OP WAS THE MOST DIFFICULT AND COMPLICATED HE HAD EVER DONE. SO VERY WELL DONE TO DR DE BEER FOR AN EXCELLENT JOB WELL DONE. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND DR DE BEER FOR HIS MASTERY OF SURGERY AND HIS OUTSTANDING EXPERIENCE.