Ibs, Colitis, Colon Cancer Posted: 04-21-04 16:14pm
Hi, about 15 years ago my sister in law
was diagnosed ibs- (irritable bowel
syndrome), then about 5 years ago was
diagnosed with colitis, and then last year
in october colon cancer, they did surgery
and said they got it all but because of it
affecting 2 of her lymphnoids near the
colon she needed chemo, so in december
they inserted a port in her chest, and a
week later got a styph infection, she is
42 years old, has been in and out of the
hospital for 6 months, when she got the
staph infection she was put in icu for 1
month they didnt bother to massage her
legs so while she was there she lost all
use of her legs, and had to be put into a
nursing home to get physical therapy,
after 6 weeks of that she came home, she
looked wonderful, then about a week later
my brother found her unconscious on the
floor she was rushed to er to find out she
had pneumonia and the staph infection
back, she was there another 3 weeks came
home, and the vomiting started, her
stomach was filling up with bio, they told
her she had a kidney stone blah blah,
anyway now her kidneys are failing, they
tell her she has an unhappy pancreas, what
the heck why not just say you have cancer
and give her a time, the woman has
suffered so much my heart aches for her
and my brother, this poor womans body is
so brusied and swollen she looks like
someone beat her half to death, I dont
understand if the cancer is back why they
are even trying dialysis- they have
recently told my brother the cancer has
spread, they do at least 5-6 tests a day
and still will not tell my brother where
the cancer is or if she is going to die, I
work thru hospice and I deal with this
thing daily, I just pray to god that
something gives soon this girl has been
thru hell and back and I wish I had more
faith that she will get better but like I
said I work with hospice I know. For all
of you reading this if you havent yet done
so please go get a colonoscopy, any
changes in your bowels, sudden weight
loss, tiredness, shortness of breath, all
these are signs, blood in your stool,
mucus... Dont wait til its too late.
