systemic vasculitis ---it is a dreaded disease , an autoimmune kind where ur own defence system acts against ur body ......in this case the small and medium sized vessels of body like that supplying skin , intestine , kidneys, lungs , .....can get affected . here this disease has affected the skin of a pregnant [6 months] female , causing gangrene of both legs and thighs, arms , abdomen, chest and back . the pain suffered by the patient is enormous and can be compared with 3rd degree burns affecting around 70% body. she has to undergo the pain of either aborting the child or delivering [miracle !]and the pain of undergoing numerous surgeries to remove the dead skin and then replacing it with her own skin by plastic surgery . this process may go on for may be around six months , can't say right now . at present what we can offfer this patient ,besides our treatment is our compassion and prayers.

i have just come to my consulting after debriding a part of this wound , the wound is extensive and i can not dare to show the enormosity of it but even a 100th part of this wound in this condition of vasculitis may take months and months to heal so i don't know how much this is going to take . and because of pregnancy we cannot give her sedatives or general anaesthesia while dressing or removing the dead skin , yesterday my staff fell ill after attending and just seeing the condition of wound and the patient while we were doing dressing . i have to ask almighty to give me heart for doing the procedure on her everyday and see her in so much pain but she is fighting it all valliantly and i hope she continues to do that . i hope she fights it out and i hope we all fight it out for this patient and defeat the progression of this disease.