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| First time trying to start a thread. Been a lurker for years.
Always see good advise and enjoy reading about other operations.
To the reason for this post. Earlier I was reading Oliveroad's post about his trip to Branson and it got me to thinking. Dangerous, I know. I don't know David personally, but we probably live about 20 miles apart. Anyway, he and his family were enjoying a nice vacation while my family was waiting for the verdict from the operating room at Boone Hospital.
You see, I ignored my doctors advice to get a colonoscopy for 20 years until a routine blood draw showed me to be severely anemic. I was sent immediately to a blood cancer doctor who said if I was anemic, I was leaking inside. An endoscopy and colonoscopy were ordered immediately. No more putting it off because "everybody" said the prep for the colonoscopy was difficult. When they couldn't get the camera half as far as necessary, the next stop was the surgeon. After a 3 hour surgery that took over 6 hours, I now have an 8 inch incision up from my belly button and 4 smaller ones around it that she used for access. I have pictures, but I'm not going to post them. They're pretty graphic. Turns out the tumor was the size of a softball that she had to "chisel" (her words) off of the wall of my stomach. She took out 12" of my upper colon in an attempt to get clear "margins". No results on the biopsies yet so the prognosis is unknown as I write this. Could be anything from we got it all consider yourself cured to it's already moved on to your liver. Then the chances of recovery are 1 in 4.
So, here I set home from the hospital after 6 days looking at 6-8 weeks of recovery time with no idea what happens next at this time.
I tell you all of that to tell you this: If your Dr says it's time for a colonoscopy, GET IT DONE. Then maybe your family can go to Branson for the week instead of sitting in a hospital room waiting to hear the report from the surgeon. | |
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Don't do what I did
