Tag Archives: colectomy

What type cancer do you have?

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Few new folks are reading the blog here on WordPress and over on Google+ and I while I have always realized there are a wide variety of cancers, I am just coming to understand that the treatments vary based on … Continue reading →

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Stigmatizing the unfamiliar

Posted on August 30, 2011 by

Stigma: a symbol of disgrace or infamy As humans, we tend to gravitate toward the normal and acceptable while stigmatizing and ostracizing the abnormal and the unknown. Nearly twenty years ago, my wife and I were faced with the challenge … Continue reading →

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God … not cancer nor doctors … has numbered all my days

Posted on August 29, 2011 by

Yesterday I turned 58 years old.  A few weeks ago I entered into a routine colectomy surgery that resulted in a colostomy instead and the verdict that I have cancer … a cancer that is quite advanced. In the journey … Continue reading →

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PSU#5 – awaiting the awakening stomach and colon

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

OK, good news … today will be a brief post! (I can hear the applause and cheers from those who have been following.) When you have colectomy or colostomy surgery, your stomach and colon both basically shutdown or go to … Continue reading →

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PSU#3 – coming out of the void

Posted on August 23, 2011 by

I don’t know about you, but when I go into the void of anesthesia it’s like an on/off switch.  Suddenly the switch is turned off and I lose all sense of conciousness. Coming out of anesthesia on the other hand … Continue reading →

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PSU#2 – trust and faith in the void

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

For the third time in a bit over four months (two colonoscopies and one surgery), we had allowed the local anesthesia group to send me into the void (by the end of the week with a ureter stint removal it … Continue reading →

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Post-surgery update #1 (PSU #1) … into the void

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

Sorry for the delay in providing a surgery update.  I have been home from the hospital but a few days and quite frankly still find it difficult to write more than a few words … like a tweet … at … Continue reading →

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