After canceling subtotal colectomy on 8-31 due to inflammation sticking to bladder and prostate my husband started four pre-operative rounds of FOLFOX. They placed the port on 9-5 and everything was good. On Monday he woke up with severe pain in his neck and shoulder, and his arm was twice it's norm...
Thanks to everyone for their input. It does make me feel better hearing from real people who have been there instead of random, anonymous, internet links. I'm laying off Dr. Google per your instructions AND my husbands.
My husband is going in for a subtotal colectomy on Wed. for Lynch Syndrome. I was fine at first going off of the bits of info his surgeon had given us, then I started researching on my own and basically freaked myself out. They will be taking his entire large intestine and then hooking up his small ...
Still fairly new to all of this, working on the terminology, please forgive any mistakes. My husband is 38 and only recently diagnosed. He went in for a swollen lymph node, but after answering some questions the doctor wanted to do a colonoscopy. They found a malignant mass in his sigmoid colon, but...