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Thread ID: 138575	2014-12-18 06:46:00	Anyone had a colonostomy?	Greg (193)	PC World Chat

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1390535	2014-12-19 10:03:00	Cheers Greg and I'm glad your girlfriend went through the examination unscathed. Been there done that and had a bowel resection as a consequence. Trust me, that is no fun. I didn't need a colostomy so that was a significant relief although I felt like I was dying for a few days. Gutting and opening up human beings sounds interesting and I'm sure it is. But as a patient facing months for abdominal muscles to knit back together, bleeding wounds, pus oozing out, scar from chest to groin: not an experience I can recommend. Nevertheless its much better than being dead which is what our parent's generation knew and expected. Modern medicine is science fiction level today.	Winston001 (3612)
1390536	2014-12-19 22:10:00	I have had one and I agree totally with BM (for the first time ever!) Well I guess even you can't be wrong all the time Richard. :D	B.M. (505)
1390537	2014-12-19 23:35:00	I have had 4, so a bit of a gun. In my case they have used Valium, which is the same as the stuff BT had, very nice.	Cicero (40)
1390538	2014-12-19 23:37:00	Cheers, wrinkly one.:rolleyes:	Richard (739)
1390539	2014-12-19 23:45:00	Cheers, wrinkly one.:rolleyes: Wrinkly and $2200 lighter.	Cicero (40)
1390540	2014-12-20 00:24:00	Nevertheless its much better than being dead which is what our parent's generation knew and expected. . On the other hand, because now they can, should they always? Husband has had Pseudomonas for 2 months.It took most of that to find out that's what he had. We thought he just had pneumonia (had it before). But. It's nasty, it's also resistant to a lot of antibiotics and his breathing isn't the best anyway. Anyway, he finally got the right pill, but had only been taking them for a day and a half. The pill causes sugar levels to go up too - he ended up taking 3 x the usual insulin. But meanwhile, he having been feeling like crap for weeks, short of breath, no energy (and high sugar levels make you feel stuffed too) he felt much worse suddenly. SO I made the mistake of taking him up the hospital. We both thought they'd give him some oxygen. Nope.....hook him up to monitors - pulse was 62, BP was 127/72. Better nick than me They stuffed around doing ECGs for ages, I explained the germ saga etc.....eventually doc #1 said lack of oxygen affecting heart. He was fine by then....colour came back, got his breath etc. Doc #1 said his arteries are borderline. Well, yeah, we've known that for years. At which point 8 new people burst into the room, we never found out who they were, what they were all there for, but from listening in 2 were students, one seemed to some kind of social worker type and the others senior doctors. 1 who after looking once at the ECG decided he had to go over the shore. I go home to get things and recharge his phone, when I got there they had done an angiogram and were hooking him up to stuff, (Not stated what) and arranging triple bypass surgery for next week. At which point he starts to unhook himself, and leave. I make them find a doc who went on about how critical he was, on the point of death and thats why he is having a haert attack (oh really?) etc. We ask to see angiogram and after a lot of evasiveness and offers of seeing a sketch, we never do get to see it. He signs himself out. He had seen a cardiologist 2 years ago, about his arteries (mainly the legs) and he told him he was of no interest to a surgeon, yes some blocking now but no worries, see you later.... And now he's about to drop dead? He weed-eated and mowed the lawn yesterday - just finished new antibiotics, germ all gone so it seems, and he had no problems at all. No breathing issues, feeling great. Doctors get carried away sometimes I think....the machine takes control.	pctek (84)
1390541	2014-12-20 03:01:00	Crikey PcTek, keep us updated k?	Greg (193)
1390542	2014-12-20 03:10:00	We should create a new thread... "What Pain And Body Deterioration We Oldies Endure As We Age" :crying :D :thumbs:	Greg (193)
1390543	2014-12-20 03:29:00	Or we all do and we only need to get excited about it if it's major and not the usual slow fall apart.	pctek (84)
1390544	2015-02-11 18:49:00	OK, update. Infection recurring, all this has dragged on since October. Then he got a new pain, right side around lower rib area. I knew what it meant by then. Doc yesterday gave him a choice of go for CT scan (couple of weeks or so) or get admitted and have a tube shoved into his pleural cavity to see if it might be pus. If pus, more infection. Except he doubted it...he said 20% likely. The diagnosis he has 80% is lung cancer - spread to liver - which is why the pain on right bit. In fact never mind the CT scan.....that pretty much is the diagnosis. He gave him a script for morphine..."in case, when he needs it, doc is away or it is a weekend". This is because when it gets to this point, it goes real fast. Not too bad one minute, pretty **** the next. So it's all over.	pctek (84)
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