Cancelled op colon cancer

Hi Artcat. Sending you a big hug because this is so disappointing for you. I think the length of an operation is often hard to predict and I remember when I went for my hip replacement, the lady in the bed opposite was sent home because the operation before had taken longer than expected. My friends bowel cancer surgery took a lot longer than expected and the surgeon told her that they ate haribos to keep themselves going. 

With regard to the cancer spreading I can understand the fear but hope this might help? With rectal cancer the patient has 5 weeks chemoradiotherapy beforehand then 6-10 weeks wait while it continues working before surgery. I was diagnosed on 22/6/16 and had surgery on 28/11 which was actually 2 weeks earlier than originally planned. I know your tumour isn’t rectal but it’s just to give you an idea of how the timings can vary but still be within safe limits?

Continue to chase and hopefully you’ll get some good news soon

Take care

Karen x

ps I’ve attached a link to a post about low residue diets below 

community.macmillan.org.uk/.../low-residue-diet

• Hi Karen, thank you so much for your reply and hug X sending one to you too. That has made me feel better, it's just the not knowing and lack of communication from the hospital that really threw me.They did tell me they'd caught it early and it hadn't spread so I've got to keep thinking that. You know what it's like, your mind goes to places it shouldn't. I will keep ringing them and hope something happens soon. Reading about what happened to you has helped a lot and I'm glad you got through it. Also about your friend and the haribos. Thank you so much for the link to the diet info, that's great. I almost didn't post this so I'm glad I did, you have made me feel a lot better.
• Linda x

I don't know why there's an emoji there but I can't delete it. It kind of works anyway!

Hi Artcat

So sorry that you’re going through this the stress must be awful, I was bad enough and I didn’t get cancelled 

Others were cancelled around me when I went in for my reversal I was blowing a head gasket waiting from six thirty in the morning until four thirty late afternoon I nearly did a runner several times  but hey that was minor I’d had the big one sorted 

I hope that you have some joy soon with getting that date fixed. 

Keep on to them 

Fingers crossed and sending you a good luck hug 

Hi Ann

Thank you for your reply, it is the waiting that really causes the stress isn't it. I totally understand why you wanted to do a runner, I felt like that too. I'm glad you got yours done, I'm feeling like mine isn't ever going to happen at the mo so that made me feel better. 

Thank you, I will keep going with the ringing and thanks for the hug, sending one back

Linda