The book I wrote last year about my personal journey through diagnosis, surgery and chemo is now up for sale on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Cancer-T-E-Bradford-ebook/dp/B01N6X0ERO/ --Tracy aka T.E. Bradford It looks like everybody is writing a book. My friend has also described her end...

I keep my umbilical hernia "as is" in case they need to do another surgery.
I am not sure how many times they can reuse the same belly button for laparoscopic port.

My hernia doesn't hurt so far.

NHMike wrote:I made well over a year's salary in trading profits in these three weeks.
What I found is that my trading and investing is a lot better when I have more time to focus on it.

NHMike, do you mind sharing what you did in August?
I also have more spare time since September 1st.

A few month ago I noticed a (small?) umbilical hernia. I do not want to fix it right away because it doesn't bother me, and at the same time I do not want to exacerbate this situation. A few people already mentioned in this thread that small umbilical hernia has not stopped them from participating i...

Denali is a name of a dog.

My ct scan did show a mass on my right adrenal gland which they are calling an incidental finding at this time cause it doesn’t seem to be associated with the Cancer, so one worry now shifts to another. Was this the only other CT scan finding? Most likely it's not that bad. Most people have a lot o...

In my case intermittent pain and intermittent fever were signs of a leak and an infection.

he found a HUGE polyp that he couldn't get with the colonoscopy cause it was the flat type. Yeap. Been there. During first colonoscopy my flat a.k.a. sessile polyp was not removed due to lack of skills and/or equipment. However it was removed during second colonoscopy by another doctor. Modern tech...

Was it an open or a laparoscopic surgery?
When do they expect a histology report?

Any tips on prepping for surgery? First you need to determine a type of a surgery. Most common types are: 1) Colonoscopic surgery 2) Laparoscopic surgery 3) Open surgery How long were you recovering? Or out of work if you worked? Recovery depends on a type of a surgery. 1) Colonoscopic surgery - ha...

As far as I remember Miralax + Gatorade won "Tasters Choice" award on this forum.
At the same time, according to my calculations, it's inferior from physiological/osmosity point of view to classic GoLitely etc. PEG 3350 based preps.

Thanks for your thoughts. I'm now a little more worried. I have my appointment already, I hope and pray he can do this with no complications. Any other suggestions? I was told that statistically speaking a chance of perforation is rather small. In an ideal world we should be able to choose a hospit...

The other question I have is what happens if there is a perforation of my colon during the procedure? Can they try to fix it during the colonoscopy, or would I need to be sent directly to a hospital? In my case this procedure was done in a major hospital. In a worst case scenario they would have sw...

ffl0203t8 , after colonoscopic removal of my cecum polyp, I was back to office the next day. As a result of subsequent "prophylactic" laparoscopic right hemicolectomy I lost about half of my blood, got a leak and an infection. I was back to office in a little bit more than four weeks. If ...