Re: Reversal Log: Experience,Problems, Q & A's
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:38 pm
We were also confused at first. But he’s had his colostomy since May 2018. He had to originally get the colostomy because of an infection from diverticulitis, which is how we found the cancer. When the surgeon went in to reattach there were soooo many adhesions he was in surgery for almost 8 hours. At that time the dr decided he wanted to make sure the reattachment took and there wasn’t a chance of leaking. He said with the way everything looked that if he leaked at all he would end up with a permanent colostomy. So he gave him a temp illeostomy so his colostomy resection has time to heal. So this one is 8 weeks. The surgeon said he “heals better than good” so his chances of a successful take down are good.