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Surgery with diabetes

swood9008
swood9008 CSN Member Posts: 116 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1

My moms colostomy surgery was booked for next Tuesday but her diabetes has been out of wack a1c of 10 and running blood sugars of 250. Her dr said she would never heal preperly with her sugars like that he wants  postpone for 3/4 weeks. Her pet scan came back clear for any lymph node or matastis is waiting that long could it

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  • abrub
    abrub CSN Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    edited April 2017 #2

    It's more important that the surgery occur when she is healthy.  My surgeon waited 4 months for my surgery.  3-4 weeks won't have an impact from cancer's point of view; from her healing - it may make a HUGE difference.

    This sounds very reasonable to me.

     

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  • swood9008
    swood9008 CSN Member Posts: 116 Member
    edited April 2017 #3
    Mom sugar is still running

    Mom sugar is still running 220s but surgery is booked for may 9th, she meets with endocronologist again tomorrow

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