hi I’m booked in for the above op on the 25 March next Wednesday I’ve now stopped work has off today but I have 3 sons who all work on building sites and with this bloody c/virus I’m concerned
all the best Andy
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Hi Andy,
It may depend on your age. I had the same surgery April 2018. As you know it's a nice bit of work they do on you ha but energy levels wise I felt fine - I won't go into detail, but the recovery was good and I reckon whilst not ideal if I had had a flu-like condition at the time I would have been fine. Obviously none of us know the effects Corona will have on us individually.
Discuss it with your stoma nurses because they'll pay you a visit too.
I guess it depends how you feel your fitness is vs. how urgent your APR op is. I see some ops being cancelled, so if that's an option and it's not an urgent op then it may be something the docs are considering?
Mine was due to bowel cancer so no real opportunity to delay.
I spent six weeks in bed after the op - I'd say I was quite fit beforehand - and ended up having minimal contact with people in any case.
If it was me, I'd have some sort of routine where food could be left outside your bedroom, and sleep alone for six weeks. I slept alone due to not wanting the bed to be moved so I could lie still. If you are anything like me I was happy to have that time to myself to recover in any case :-) Perhaps get your son's to shower when they enter the house.
It's easy for me to say, but having gone through it I hope I have some credibility, try and relax. Whilst it's a very physical op, the rest of your body is of course still up to scratch, so depending on your age, fitness and what the nurses say, the fact that you'll be indoors and can minimise contact with your sons I reckon you'll be ok.
Great reply mine is due to rectal cancer t3 no spread finished treatment on the 25th of October scaned in December then again at the end of January with very good response a they think that it’s all gone but just a fuzzy image left so can’t delay it no more
Superb mate exactly the same situation with me, same months too! I was T3b N2 and after surgery 'downgraded' to T2 N0. They'll test the tumour and what they take out and test your bloods and vascular too. They thought some of my nodes were infected but turned out not to be.
I'd just take some simple precautions deal with isolation and get yourself a shed load of boxsets to watch. The six weeks does go slow if I am honest, but once you can walk around - apart from wondering if you'll ever sit again - very quickly after six weeks it's huge improvements as the weeks go by. I even ran a 5k at six weeks - as a proof to myself kinda thing - I shouldn't have done it tbh, a bit silly, and I bled and it hurt but was so fed up watching TV. Not that I'd expect you to think about doing the same but whilst you're sat there wondering if you'll ever get out of bed just remember me telling you that at six weeks magic happens and almost to the day you'll feel more mobile.
Two years flies by mate, if you find yourself crying try and laugh because I look back now and laughing was definitely the best advice I got. Crying did some good too. Life returns to normal and you'll soon be where I am.
Remember: Boxsets :-D there's only so much Holly Willoughby any one man can watch!!!!!
Just had a call my surgery been cancelled due to lack of hdi beds Coronavirus pissed right off feels like I’m being left to well you know what take care Andy
There are just not the right words for this situation . What could I possibly say . I know in our area the cancer operations are most definitely still ongoing . There is talk about how best to keep this flowing and where best to carry this out to keep people safe , such as moving it to a stand alone hospital far away from other patients . But the commitment is there . Someone else has contacted their MP to start pushing for scans to be carried out . You could phone Macmillan 0808 808 0000 but I do think you might need to ensure this is addressed to ensure the managers are putting together another way to access equipment and a safe place to be placed post surgery .
They may well be addressing it but you need to have the assurances that you are going to be monitored and addressed.
Either way it’s layers and layers of horrible stress on an already difficult situation .
Cheers court. Mri scan next week if the treatment has carried in working then great if not they said I’ll be in the next week but no promises it won’t get cancelled on that day to due to lack of beds x
Glad they are doing that at least but what chaos this has brought . It is painful to watch what you are all going through . I know how stressful it was with the preparation for the op to think about without all this additional stress .
Also surgeon did say I’ve had a great response to treatment it could of completely gone then it’s watch and wait which I did tell them I didn’t want in January all the best x
Well that’s a relief . At least it’s less pressing and not an emergency. My friends husband was operated on last week as an emergency blockage . Must be awful at this time.
But still , takes a bit to get your head around all of this .
