Colon Resection

[livingwith]

I had my first bowel operation in 2004. Ninety percent of my large intestine was removed due to colonic inertia. Three years later and after several visits to Dr.’s, I found out that the bowels were put together at a T junction instead of end to end. This would be surgery 2. Now 8 months later, after 6 months of unexplained vomiting every couple of weeks, and another colonoscopy. It has been determined that the sight of resection is severely ulcerated and surgery 3 now looms in the future....Read the full article

[robb8383]

Hi
I hope that you are winning. I have chosen you to contact because you are the only person I have found who can give me a first hand answer. I am twenty five years old and I have been diagnosed with cancer of the colan. They are operating on me on Tuesday 6th of May 2008 - just 4 days away. They want to take the whole of my colan even though the tumor is only a quater of the way around my colan from my anus. Beacuse there are polops present they have said that if they don't take the whole colan there is a big chance another cancer will occur at a later date. I'd prefer to lose the smallest amount possible. Even though cancer may not be the reason for your original operation you will know what it is like to live with all of your colon gone. I can only imagine desperate rushes to the toilet 7 time a day. I don't know whether to accept that quality of life or to take the risk of getting cancer again. I'm only 25 years old there a long way to go to get to 80. What's your quality of life like without a colon. I hope that you or someone else can answer this question before Tuesday next as I really don't know what to do.
Robb