3 years now I have been fightiing rectal cancer, and damage done by surgeon, I have a perminate colostomy bag on left side and cancer is gone. what got me was the after surgery I had small blockage and they let a resident in training use me fore a training doll. I had the surgery for blockage, they said they would old need to make about 6 inch incision but when I woke up I had been cut down the middleabout 18-20 inches. I told them something was wrong, told just insides waking up. told them it some other than that, but still they sent me home 2nd day after surgery, I started to slosh inside and could not lay down flat, started running fever that got worse, eight days later i went in to my Doctor and WBC was 32 I had gone septic, rush to hospital where they opened me up to find that during surgery for blockage they had perferatted bowels in more than 1 place. I had four surgeries in 1 week, or thats what I was told because I did not wkae up for 4 weeks and then I was still On life support, off life support I still stayed in ICU for 2 more weeks till move to regular room for 3 weeks, then I was sent to a nursing home for 5weeks , I lost 119 lbs could not even pick up a 6 pack of Mt Dew. I have been on life support 1 more time because of the damage done bu surgeon and 3 other surgeries. I am still recovering strength and that is why I now am switching to a trike. I also found out that they had change the time you could sue, I first thought it was 2yrs so I missed window when I found it was only a year from time of surgery. lucky the cance for me was easy fix, the surgeon being a butcher has not been so easy.
for all you who are just starting to fight the cancer side of it. Never give up and have positive attitude ae the best ways to beat cacncer plus all the new medicines they use now days,
Hank
P.S go to a cancer center of america they seem to have the best track record