Hello,
I am currently in the hospital room watching my dad sleep watching his stomach contents pass through his NG tube for the second night in a row. So I of course have now read every article there is on colon cancer, but haven’t came across anything directly similar to my dad’s experience...
My dad is 64 and stubborn like a mule... for the past 8 months almost he hs had weeks where he couldn’t have a bowel movement, couldn’t eat for days and at times had to sleep on the bathroom floor because he couldn’t get back up. I live across the country and he down played this all over the phone but the rest of my family begged him to go to a doctor but he kept putting it off til his Medicare kicked in, until now.. this time he went two weeks without any sort of bowel movement and 5 days without eating before he finally consented to go to the hospital... that was 3 days ago. He has a 5 cm mass in his colon and because of how long he’s been having symptoms they couldn’t even do a colonoscopy because he has so much backed up. He’s been resting and on morphine while this tube drains out his stomach, and it’s been on a non stop flow since Sunday. He is having a hemi-colectomy tomorrow, with a colostomy bag. He had a ct scan to confirm the mass. Of course I know they can’t confirm it’s cancer til the path report comes back but all signs point to cancer and the surgeon is convinced it is too... his parents died of cancer, he’s a smoker and has had skin cancer in the past
Anyways, my point of all this overshare is the internet has me convinced this is end stage IV, so I’m just wondering has anyone else gone thru this, the several months of signs and symptoms ignored... leading to a complete blockage... and if so .. what was the prognosis?
Thanks for reading all of this