My father in law has recently undergone surgery to remove part of his bowel due to cancer. He is really struggling post op and has had to have 2 further surgeries as the wound on his stomach is just not healing, the stitches keep splitting and on the 2nd revisit they have now decided to pack it out with gauze and then dress it. It's causing him pain and distress and you can actually see his bowel when they change the dressing, the hole is rather distressingly large!
On top of this he is struggling to pass urine, they have put in a catheter and removed it again numerous times now having it or not neither helps and therefore he is in lots of pain due to not being able to empty his bladder and not able to sleep well either.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had experience of this or can offer any advice?
He has been back to the outpatients surgical advice ward twice but they have not been very helpful and he is now quite distressed. My mother on law is struggling to look after him as she has Parkinsons and the only care package is a nurse once a day to change dressings.
My other half and his sister are visiting as often as possible but we are all concerned about both of them.
Hi and welcome to the online community although I'm sorry you've had to find us.
I'm not a member of this group but I was passing and noticed that your post hadn't had any replies. It could be that no one here has had the same experience as your father-in-law or that they just haven't seen the post yet. By replying to you it will 'bump' it back to the top of the page where hopefully it'll be seen by someone with the experience you need.
I'm also going to tag my fellow Community Champion court into my reply as she helps to look after this group and can probably help more than I can.
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