Surgery is scheduled

mac1212 · October 2009

Had the appt with the surgeon and my surgery is scheduled for October 29th at 7:15. They will be doing the following.
Laparoscopic assisted proctosigmoidectomy, coloanal anastomosis, and a loop ileostomy. I don't post very often but to recap. I was Dx on 7/1/9 with stage IIa rectal cancer. I went through 5 weeks of radiation and chemo (Xeloda). I apparently had a good reaction with the radiation. The tumor shrank considerably and is now just a bump on the wall. Anyway, everything is positive so we are gearing up for the next hurdle.

angelsbaby · October 2009

mac
Good luck.

michelle

Kathryn_in_MN · October 2009

Good luck with your surgery.
Good luck with your surgery. It sounds like so far things have been going well, and should continue to for you.

mommyof2kds · October 2009

Kathryn_in_MN said:
Good luck with your surgery.
Good luck with your surgery. It sounds like so far things have been going well, and should continue to for you.

wishing you all th best with
wishing you all th best with your surgery..Petrina

coloCan · October 2009

Try to get your strength up
Try to get your strength up between now and surgery cos operation is going to take alot out of you. However your reaction to rad/chemo (did both as well. with Xeloda and other chem)I found surgery aftermath to be more difficult.My tumor also shrunk but upon cutting me open, surgeon found an unexpected mess so op lasted 6 1/2 instead of 3 1/2 hours) Best of luck,you can survive this.....Have only positive thoughts around you.

Annabelle41415 · October 2009

Surgery
Wishing you good luck on your surgery. Not sure what type of surgery that is, but sounds a lot less invasive than mine was. I also have a loop ileostomy which I assume is going to be a temporary for you too, but I'm not quite sure. Glad that you had a wonderful response to chemo and radiation. Let us know how you are doing.

Kim

Fight for my love · October 2009

Hi Mac,I am happy to hear
Hi Mac,I am happy to hear that you got good response to the preoperative treatment.This is always good for the surgery.Best luck and best wishes to you with the coming up surgery.Take care.My husband had sugery done at the beginning of Sep.He also had great response to the chemo and radiation too.The pathology report showed that he was down staged from stageIIa to stageI,very good result.If you have any questions,please let me know.