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Well I just had an interesting two weeks. I'll start off by saying I am a 30 year old man who has never had any health problems or any serious reason to go to a doctor.
About a month ago, I was having stomach problems and would occasionally vomit a little over night and feel crappy, but in 24 hours, I would be back to normal. I would get these bouts about once a week. I was in the process of getting blood work to my GP to see if it was something with my diet (I thought it might be gas). I never got that far.
On Friday Sept. 28 I got sick again but this time it did not go away in the 24 hours and I was having trouble keeping down any food or drink. By Sunday I was still in pain and vomiting up stomach acid and bile so it was time to head to the emergency room. Most of the people I talked to did not have an idea what it could be since I had never had abdominal surgery before, which would be the main culprit for something like that (scar tissue from a surgery).
I was given a CT scan and they found two polyps and a much larger mass and was set for a colonoscopy the next day to remove the polyps an get a better idea what the mass was. They were able to remove the polyps without a problem the but the mass was so large, they could not see past it and it this point they feared it was a tumor, possibly cancerous.
The plan was to go in the next day for surgery, have most of my colon removed and whatever is left would be reattached like normal. This would remove the mass and they could also get a look further down the colon to see if there was anything else that could be blocking the way. This would also let me avoid having a colostomy bag and according to the surgeons, I would be more or less back to normal in a year.
The surgery went fine and they were able to remove everything that they needed to and reattach my colon. After a few days, the biopsy came back from the tumor and luckily, the cancer did not spread to the lymph nodes, but did pass through the colon wall, which would put the cancer at basically a stage two. I am planning on getting chemotherapy in a month or so just to be safe any knock out anything else that may be lingering.
I got home from the hospital this Friday evening, just shy of two weeks. I still have to administer IV antibiotics 4 times a day and do some basic wound care. Feels great to be home and so much nicer to sleep in my bed. Feel really good now and am getting around fine. Plan to play a lot of games and drink a lot of tea.
Long story, but just wanted to share and see if anyone else had their own hospital adventures. Also, if anyone else has some chemo experiences. I'll be on FOL-FOX which doesn't sound too bad, but I'm sure it won't be a walk in the park either.
Well I just had an interesting two weeks. I'll start off by saying I am a 30 year old man who has never had any health problems or any serious reason to go to a doctor.
About a month ago, I was having stomach problems and would occasionally vomit a little over night and feel crappy, but in 24 hours, I would be back to normal. I would get these bouts about once a week. I was in the process of getting blood work to my GP to see if it was something with my diet (I thought it might be gas). I never got that far.
On Friday Sept. 28 I got sick again but this time it did not go away in the 24 hours and I was having trouble keeping down any food or drink. By Sunday I was still in pain and vomiting up stomach acid and bile so it was time to head to the emergency room. Most of the people I talked to did not have an idea what it could be since I had never had abdominal surgery before, which would be the main culprit for something like that (scar tissue from a surgery).
I was given a CT scan and they found two polyps and a much larger mass and was set for a colonoscopy the next day to remove the polyps an get a better idea what the mass was. They were able to remove the polyps without a problem the but the mass was so large, they could not see past it and it this point they feared it was a tumor, possibly cancerous.
The plan was to go in the next day for surgery, have most of my colon removed and whatever is left would be reattached like normal. This would remove the mass and they could also get a look further down the colon to see if there was anything else that could be blocking the way. This would also let me avoid having a colostomy bag and according to the surgeons, I would be more or less back to normal in a year.
The surgery went fine and they were able to remove everything that they needed to and reattach my colon. After a few days, the biopsy came back from the tumor and luckily, the cancer did not spread to the lymph nodes, but did pass through the colon wall, which would put the cancer at basically a stage two. I am planning on getting chemotherapy in a month or so just to be safe any knock out anything else that may be lingering.
I got home from the hospital this Friday evening, just shy of two weeks. I still have to administer IV antibiotics 4 times a day and do some basic wound care. Feels great to be home and so much nicer to sleep in my bed. Feel really good now and am getting around fine. Plan to play a lot of games and drink a lot of tea.
Long story, but just wanted to share and see if anyone else had their own hospital adventures. Also, if anyone else has some chemo experiences. I'll be on FOL-FOX which doesn't sound too bad, but I'm sure it won't be a walk in the park either.
cancer.
