Had the surgery 2/19 to remove the entire sigmoid colon and all the related lymph nodes.
Was in recovery 2/19 to 2/23 and released to go home!
The biopsy results came in late today and confirmed 0/12 lymph nodes were malignant. That’s it! It’s clean! No stage 3, no chemo required!
Follow up with the surgeon on 4/1 to talk about where we go from here, my guess is colonoscopies 2x a year for life now since it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months.
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, wear blue and get checked!
#✅UR:
Not sure when I’ll be back modding, I still feel like someone slammed me in the gut with a baseball bat. Cricket bat for our international folks! Maybe another 2-3 weeks.
I still lurk and comment occasionally, just as my health allows!
Edit Bonus - Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation, we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.
Sooo…
Get insurance guys, no, seriously, get insurance.
My pain scale is marred by other things I’ve had so this really is barely registering. If I peg the 10 at “Spinal Stenosis”, so far this is like a 6, currently a 4. I didn’t even need the oxy today except to go to sleep.
And yeah, was laparoscopic, so I have 4 small incision sites instead of one giant one like with the open heart surgery.
As far as other gastro problems go, I was pretty screwed up by the statins they put me on for the heart stuff. So being a little more “loose” than normal is nice compared to that:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3291011/
Hopefully the two will balance each other out!