Hi everyone, I’ve just joined this forum but have found similar discussion threads really valuable during my cancer journey this year. I was diagnosed with stage 3 locally advanced lower rectal cancer in late March. I’ve had radiotherapy and chemo which worked really well to shrink the tumour and then had my APR surgery to remove my rectum and have a colostomy fitted late August. All went pretty smoothly until late September when my perineal wound (aka barbie butt wound) reopened due to bleeding from the cavity in my pelvis and now because I had radiotherapy to the area it’s being incredibly slow to heal. They want it to heal by secondary intention (inside out) so it’s being packed by nurses every day. It’s about the size of a 5p piece and 4cm deep. It’s only healed about 1cm in 6 weeks so looking at a long time at this rate and I still can’t sit properly or drive because of it. I just wondered if others who had radiotherapy and this surgery had experienced this slow healing and how long it took in the end plus any ideas to help speed it up? Thank you!
So sorry to hear you’re having such a bad time too there must be others who can support you @Moirq and @ML657. Sitting was always an issue for me but I count myself as very lucky not to have endured
hat you are both going through. Hopefully this will bump you up to the top again.
