Apologies for not writing sooner but other things got in the way.
Surgery went well. 'Only ' lost 60% whole right lobe.
On the mend. Will update when I get home.
Thanks for all your support
Pete
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Apologies for not writing sooner but other things got in the way.
Less than 24 hours before I go under the knife again and my anxiety levels are through the roof. I’m scared of what will be found when they open me up and rescan me. But as I keep telling myself what will be will be. I can’t control it and if they find that they can’t operate then that is what will happen. If they find nothing additional out of the ‘ordinary’ (apart from the known lesions) then they’ll take away up to…
I had a lovely trip to Leicester general. It was my birthday and the sun was shining. I was very grateful to my satnav which, although it didn’t warn me that the A6 was closed, did manage to avoid the traffic in Leicester.
Until now I have received all my treatment at Northampton general so a trip up the M1 was always going to be different. I was surprised how different hospitals have different procedures. But car…
It’s my birthday tomorrow. 58!
And I’m sat here at 2:32 in the morning contemplating what a difference a year makes. This time last year I was a very scared person. I was in pain and had a thousand and one thoughts about what was going on in my body to make me feel so dreadful.
One year on and now I know. I’m still scared but I understand what was happening. I’ve been through chemotherapy and major surgery…
I’m finally in a positon, I’m able to sit down for more than 30 seconds before my backside starts to hurt, to write a few lines on my experiences in hospital. As I have mentioned elsewhere I have had a pan proctocolectomy removing my whole large bowel, anus and rectum. I have had what used to be my bum sewn up (hence the issues with sitting down) and I now have a stoma.
Pretty major stuff but I have to tell…
