Thank you for the replies. My dh has decided to put the Take Down OFF for now. He has had a year of hospitalizations, surgeries, ER visits, etc and he is starting to recover his emotional health and says he does not think he is ready to go through the emotional toll that the surgery would most likel...

My dh had his resection done in January of 2011. He has been in and out of the hospital a couple of different times this year for a few minor compplications...it has been on my other Posts. We finally went to the Surgeon yesterday to try and get his take down surgery done by the end of the year. It'...

My husband was dx with Stage 1 RC last october on his 47th birthday and his story is on one of my first posts..way too long to repeat but he went in on Jan 31st, 2011 for his LAR after 6 weeks of Chemo and radiation..came out of the OR in a great deal of pain and 2 days later the surgeon had to put ...

I know you have to be feeling wonderful after that report. Take care !!!!

Wow... thank you so much for all of the helpful advice. The problem with our situation is that I have to ask and ANSWER all of the questions. My dh wouldn't even tell the doc's what they need to know if I was not there. EXAMPLE: We just went for the Biopsy on his thyroid mass yesterday. The Dr. aske...

When we found out my dh had RC, we were shocked, scared and everything else that many of you have gone through, I'm sure. We interviewed several Surgeons before we decided on one. When we went for our consultation with him, he seemed very nice, very eager to answer ANY questions we had. I'm the ques...

Well, dh had the Ultrasound on his thyroid yesterday and now we are waiting to hear from his Oncologist. The Ultrasound Tech did say that the lesion is 1.3 cm and it is solid and they are several swollen nodules as well. Then the Dr's office calls and tells us because his liver enzymes are so elevat...

My husband had an LAR in January and had the catheter. He ver complained about it even after they removed it. He also had the NG tube and that bothered him quite a bit. They gave him Ativan to help him relax so that helped a great deal with that. He had a sore throat after it came out and a cough th...

Well, my dh is having an Ultrasound today on his Thyroid. He had a CT Scan last week and they saw a lesion on his thyroid and a few things came up on the CT. He is having a Colonoscopy and an Exam under anesthesia on the 14th. He was dx last October with rc, stage 1 and had Chemotherapy (5-FU) and R...

I have posted on here a couple of times. My husband was dx last October with rc, stage 1. I have a question that I hope someone can help me with. Our daughter who is 29 is experiencing symptoms that are not normal. It is a long story but the short end of it is she needs a colonoscopy and some other ...

Thank you for all of the replies. He had the CT done and the results were, a low density lesion in the lateral left thyroid lobe which is 15 mm in size. He also has some STRANDY changes in Peritoneal thickening in the left midabdomen, favored to be postoperative, given the presence of surgical clips...

I have not posted on here in a good while, although I do read the Post's by others. My husband was dx last Oct 14th with rectal cancer, stage 1. Went through Chemo and Radiation and then back in January had LAR with temp iliostomy. He was in the hospital for 21 days with one complication after anoth...

I have posted on here twice before with the title "I am New"... My husband was Dx. with Stage 1 Rectal Cancer back on Oct 14,2010...he had a T2 lesion (Villous Tumor) He went through 5 1/2 weeks of Chemo/Radiation before the Surgery to sterilize the area. He finally had a laproscopic LAR w...

I tell him how blessed we were to have found it so early. He had a recurring boil/cyst on his buttock for 4 years! Believe it or not, I did not know of this until about 4-5 months before his diagnosis.He would walk with a limp and looked as if he were in pain at times but he has a BAD knee so thats ...

I posted a couple of weeks ago under I'm new and need advice with a Surgeon/Surgery question. My husband's LAR is scheduled for Monday the 31ST and yes, we are both scared. He is 47 and was diagnosed back in October with a T2 lesion, 5 CM inside the rectum...sorry, if I don't know all of the correct...