Tribute to Doctor Karwowski

Doctor Karwowski remembered - a life saver.

Doctor Karwowski was our family doctor and probably every Polish persons in the local community. He was a very nice and kind man.

In the above photo he is stood next to me. (Taken in 1981. yes I am wearing a suit, its after mass and actually outside the Chapel at Holy Cross Convent, Bury).

He was our Doctor for a long time but when he passed away it was a sad day for the whole community. Thankfully his daughter took over years later.

Wind or Appendix?

In 1978 I had just returned from our usual summer holiday in Poland.

The week before I had complained about pains in my abdomen?

My mum took me to a doctor in Lodz and he thought I just had some sort of stomach upset and promptly dispatched me off to a nearby chemist. I took whatever they were and felt better again.

We used to travel to Poland on the train and ferry and took 3 days each way. (That warrants a separate blog so I wont go into details here) .

So we were home after our 3 day journey.

The very next day was a Saturday and in the morning I start to get very bad pains again, like I am about to give birth or something?

Mum rushes me to the doctor, remember we had no car so we walked to town.

He asked me a few questions then started to see where the pain was - you know the usual does it hurt when I press here (hard!) yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooowwww I cried out.

Ok he gets the phone and calls an ambulance. Its an appendicitis, I was in hospital and next day it was out. Apparently it was ready to burst and I was lucky it didn't happen on the train or ship the 3 days we travelled.

Once again someone was taking care of me above.

So thank you Dr Karwowski for all your help over the years.

Take 2 paracetamols and sit back on that Cloud next to the Angels.