Post Op Blues

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I had surgery last Monday to remove a malignant tumour from my colon at the join to the rectum. I'm feeling very well and not in too much pain. I'm now introducing food back into my diet. I have the surgeons report. What he could see matched the MRI and CT scan. It was contained within the colon. No visible  sign of any cancers on the outside of the liver or on the lymph nodes. I have a dubious looking lesion inside the liver that will be on watch and wait if the report back from the lab is clear. I thought I'd feel better than this but I'm so worried about the report. Just one node or it having spread further through the wall and its chemo. I don't know how I feel or how I should feel. I'm up one minute and down the next. All I want to do is go swimming and walking like I was doing a month ago. Until I know what my next move is I'm stuck. Thank you for listening and don't listen to The final curtain followed by Electric Dreams if your struggling. It did me in! Thank you final scenes of Series 6, Episode 6 or Brad and Barney Walsh Breaking Dad. A nice easy watch I thought. Nothing to set me off there I thought!

  • You are feeling exactly what you should feel. We all think we will be happy when the cancer is gone but I've yet to meet anyone who truly feels "happy".

    We've lost trust in our bodies. We worry about recurrence. We want life to be exactly like it was before but it never will be. Because we've lost our "innocence", that trust that everything will be ok. It's gone. We've learned to worry. 

    There's a paper that captures this better than anything else but I don't know how to link it here. If you go to the "life after cancer" forum and browse a couple threads you'll find it posted by Highlander. 

      

    Hopefully that tags him to post here. I couldn't figure out how to link the forum. 

  • Thanks BlueBlue. I'm going to read it now.