Hi All.

. Hi Geoff and a warm welcome to the board from me. Yes it’s a flurry of scan and meetings once the ball starts rolling but not long until you can get this tumour chucked in the bin. I’m sure you’ll find lots of help and support both on here and the bowel (colon and rectal) board. Don’t worry about getting posts in the right place or replying - theres no special etiquette on here. There is also nothing too daft or embarrassing to ask or talk about - as you can imagine poo talk features quite strongly with this Cancer! 

If you want to have a look at people’s profiles then you can just click on their name and if you want to tag somebody in ie. draw their attention to a post then put a @ followed by their name ( no space) like I’ve done with yours and they should get an email to say that you’ve mentioned them?

Your stoma nurses will be your best friend in the early days but there’s lots of information on here in previous posts if you type a keyword in the search box where the magnifying glass is at the top of the page.

A stoma can seem a little daunting at first, especially in the early days, but things will quickly settle down and you’ll get into a routine and then carry on with life as before

Hope the op goes well - please keep us posted

Take care

Karen x

Thanks Kareno62, I've just spoken to colorectal nurses, we are still not sure which defunctioning I'm having, but she did say the plan so far is, defunctioning stoma on 1st, I'll be in for a week, once settled down, meet oncologist to arrange radiotherapy and or chemotherapy, then eventually remove cancer. That's also dependent upon the liver investigation. I stupidly thought they were operating on my tumour at the same time as defunctioning stoma. Doh.