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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Cancer / September 2006From Janet, today
Sorry I haven't written. First: I am hoping and praying the results of your test were good. I have been thinking of you. I had 4 radiation treatments to go and my bowl exploded. I had to have an emergency colostomy. Hopefully, in time, it can be reversed. They sent me home too soon from the surgery and I wound up back in for another week. I got home yesterday and am feeling stronger. They opened the wound on my stomach so I have to dress it twice a day until it heals. Maybe a month or two. I look like something the cat dragged in. I did finish my radiation (Hooray) after the surgery, while an inpatient, and rang the bell. Saw the dental oncologist and the speech people and they said I am healing from the radiation. We see the bowel surgeon on Monday and, hopefully, we can finally go home. Hugs, Janet ------------------------------------------- Janet Wilder Bad Spelling. Bad Punctuation Good Friends. Good Life  SignatureBetsyB betsyb said... > I had 4 radiation treatments to go and my bowel exploded. I had to have an > emergency colostomy. Hopefully, in time, it can be reversed. They sent me > home too soon from the surgery and I wound up back in for another week. I > got home yesterday and am feeling stronger. They opened the wound on my > stomach so I have to dress it twice a day until it heals. Maybe a month or > two. I look like something the cat dragged in. Oh Janet, you poor thing - that sounds pretty dreadful and extremely painful. Gentle hugs coming your way and the hope that you will soon be well again. Warm baths (unless you're not to get things wet, of course) and plenty of rest are prescribed by Auntie Em, together with soft music and a film that won't have you in fits of laughter. Laughter comes back when all the wounds have healed :-) SignatureEm > betsyb said... >> I had 4 radiation treatments to go and my bowel exploded. I had to have [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > that won't have you in fits of laughter. Laughter comes back when all > the wounds have healed :-) No chocolate? I thought that cured everything? Betsy I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of radiotherapy to > the neck!!!!! I don't think anyone said that, the original bowel surgery was performed according to Janet due to a blockage. The second surgery, she referred to being discharged home too early in the post operative phase. I don't see how you connect radiation to an exploding bowel other than Janet said she had four XRT treatments and her bowel exploded. . The only link I could see, due to radiation, if could have been difficult to get the proper hydration leading to the bowel obstruction, but even that is a strech.Alex > I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of > radiotherapy to [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > have been difficult to get the proper hydration leading to the bowel > obstruction, but even that is a strech.Alex Alex, this was posted by betsb 9/10 for Janet: >> You havent seen me on the group because I just had a bowel resection. >> A piece of stool got big, hard and stuck and made a hole in my small >> bowl. They had to gut that piece out and then leave an opening so the >> pieces that were left could break up and come out. <snip re computer troubles> >> Hugs, >> >> Janet I'm not following this thread & who was expressing the above. Fig Figgertoes <me@privacy.net> wrote in news:Xns9848473344DB2figgertoes@ 216.168.3.44: >> I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of >> radiotherapy to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Fig Oh, now I see it was Steph below. Sorry. Fig You're in my thoughts and prayers. Hooray for finishing the readiation treatments!! Gail > Sorry I haven't written. > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Bad Spelling. Bad Punctuation > Good Friends. Good Life Janet, Hoping you are back to your old self real soon, thinking of you. Alex Janet, Hoping you are back to your old self real soon, thinking of you. Alex > I had 4 radiation treatments to go and my bowl exploded. I had to have an > emergency colostomy. Hopefully, in time, it can be reversed. They sent me [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > We see the bowel surgeon on Monday and, hopefully, we can finally go home. Thanks Betsy. orry to hear that Janet's had complications. Miss you here, Janet. Take care and I hope things improve soon for you. J >> I had 4 radiation treatments to go and my bowl exploded. I had to have an >> emergency colostomy. Hopefully, in time, it can be reversed. They sent [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Take care and I hope things improve soon for you. > J I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of radiotherapy to the neck!!!!! > I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of radiotherapy to > the neck!!!!! I had an impaction in my bowel. It seems that it had been there for a while, rubbing against the colon. It ruptured. The situation had more to do with pain meds than it had to do with XRT. Janet SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life So nice to hear from you first hand, Janet. All of our healing thoughts are with you. Gail >> I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of radiotherapy >> to the neck!!!!! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > The situation had more to do with pain meds than it had to do with XRT. > Janet > > I've never heard of "exploding bowel" as a complication of radiotherapy to > > the neck!!!!! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > The situation had more to do with pain meds than it had to do with XRT. > Janet Hello Janet, I checked the archives and couldn't find, nor remember anyone who had a perforation from pain meds, although I think I've seen such on one or the other of the pain newsgroups. So no (Steph), I"m not blaming the RT - just saying it's not a frequently reported problem on these cancer newsgroups. How are you coping with the colostomy? It's great to have you back posting. I'm a little lost on where you are (still near the hospital, or in hospital or at home), but hope things are going better for you. Hugs J > The situation had more to do with pain meds than it had to do with XRT. > Janet J mentioned that this is the first time she had heard of this, that is not surprising considering the small pool of cancer patients who post here. Over the years I would guess only a few hundred, where as in clinical practice one is exposed to thousands. http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cancernet/303510.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowel_obstruction > > The situation had more to do with pain meds than it had to do with XRT. > > Janet > > Over the years I would guess only a few hundred, where as in clinical > practice one is exposed to thousands. Must be all those nurses who tell their patients "I can tell when patients turn the corner when they start worrying about constipation." J Just this week a columnist in our local paper wrote of the very same thing! Her pain medications that gave her glorious relief turned stool into "cement." We are fortunate to have a first class colorectal surgeon here, and he took care of her. Be sure when you are on these pain medications to drink as much water as you can to avoid as much of this as you can. > Just this week a columnist in our local paper wrote of the very same > thing! Her pain medications that gave her glorious relief turned [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Be sure when you are on these pain medications to drink as much water > as you can to avoid as much of this as you can. I think the message is that those who prescribe opiate analgesics should also prescribe stool softeners........ That's well understood in the hospice world >>Just this week a columnist in our local paper wrote of the very same >>thing! Her pain medications that gave her glorious relief turned [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > also prescribe stool softeners........ > That's well understood in the hospice world I was on 12 Senokot-S tablets per day. I had seen and been advised by the bowel function nurse specialist. As my husband says: "s--t happens and sometimes it doesn't". Janet SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life |
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