Husband’s New Diagnosis
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:34 am
Hi All,
Thank you so much for this wonderful resource of information and individual stories - it is a light in the darkness during these times!
My husband, 38, had a colonoscopy last week where they found a mass they could not get the scope past in his descending colon near his splenic flexure. It was biopsied and came back as adenocarcinoma. He had a CT scan this week and we are just waiting for the call from the GI surgeon to go over what the scans found and if we are going ahead with LAR surgery to remove the mass or if there is any more findings that would affect that.
He’s otherwise healthy, active (but could stand to exercise more), we previously ate well with a high fiber diet (currently on low residue foods), and so young. We are generally trying to approach this with positivity, but his symptom that concerns me the most is his weight loss. He did drop about 15-20 lbs earlier this year, but it was right around the time that we went into lockdown and we chalked it up to stress/eating at home more and not eating fatty restaurant foods. He was sent to get a colonoscopy because of blood work that came back showing he was anemic. His hemoglobin levels have gone up a little since that first bloodwork, and his liver functions are good (but this was not a liver function test).
I guess I’m most worried about it having spread to his liver already with the weight loss being a key sign of that. I can’t seem to find many accounts of people having weight loss as a symptom, but I know every cancer is different. Any clarity or advice would be appreciated as we begin this journey!
Thank you so much for this wonderful resource of information and individual stories - it is a light in the darkness during these times!
My husband, 38, had a colonoscopy last week where they found a mass they could not get the scope past in his descending colon near his splenic flexure. It was biopsied and came back as adenocarcinoma. He had a CT scan this week and we are just waiting for the call from the GI surgeon to go over what the scans found and if we are going ahead with LAR surgery to remove the mass or if there is any more findings that would affect that.
He’s otherwise healthy, active (but could stand to exercise more), we previously ate well with a high fiber diet (currently on low residue foods), and so young. We are generally trying to approach this with positivity, but his symptom that concerns me the most is his weight loss. He did drop about 15-20 lbs earlier this year, but it was right around the time that we went into lockdown and we chalked it up to stress/eating at home more and not eating fatty restaurant foods. He was sent to get a colonoscopy because of blood work that came back showing he was anemic. His hemoglobin levels have gone up a little since that first bloodwork, and his liver functions are good (but this was not a liver function test).
I guess I’m most worried about it having spread to his liver already with the weight loss being a key sign of that. I can’t seem to find many accounts of people having weight loss as a symptom, but I know every cancer is different. Any clarity or advice would be appreciated as we begin this journey!
