Never too young for colon cancer.. Where I've been

Thank you all for the great posts and well wishes! It really means a lot to me to know that such wonderful people are pulling for me.

I stayed in the hospital for 5 days recovering from the surgery but after 2 days at home I ended up dehydrated and in a lot of pain so I went back to the emergency room and stayed another 2 days before I was able to eat on my own again and get the pain and nausea under control. In all, my stay there was not pleasant despite having 2 really hot nurses. Rest assured I did try to flirt with them but having tubes sticking out of you and a couple bags and bottles that need to be drained of rather gross fluids really tosses salt on one's game... My friends thought it was funny to bring me smut magazines and I'm sure that didn't help either.

After the surgery and pathology report my cancer was upped to a stage 3 rating. They found cancer cells in my lymph nodes (local) but the CT scan showed nothing of tumor size anywhere else in my body which balances the bad news. I think.

I was told by the surgeon that I would only have to have the ileostomy bag for about 1.5 months and then we would remove it and I would go back on chemo for what I thought would be a 6-week cycle like the last time. Wrong....... I talked to my oncologist and he thinks waiting an extra month to heal from the ostomy reversal surgery is too long and he wants me on chemo ASAP AND the chemo cycle will be 6 months, not 6 weeks. To complicate matters I will be using a strong cocktail of chemo than I used last time so I'm not sure how this will affect me and how hard it will be to work during the cycle. So I'll be stuck with the bag AND the chemo for 6-7 months. Fuuuunnnnnnnn.....

Ahh well. Enough of the bad stuff. I'm at work now and feel better being productive than just sitting at home and living off of other people's taxes (state disability). Besides, I have my hot Romanian girl that comes visit me, comfort me, and help me. With that and so many wonderful friends here and living near me who in their right mind would complain about anything. Life is too wonderful to spend it bitching and whining!

 

You guys/girls make me smile.

It is never my intent to gather sympathy or play the role of an attention wh%re. Instead, I feel this is a good release and if it can help even one of you in some way then all this pain is worth it. Like Tim McGraw sang, "Live like you were dying"....