Easy way to do living will/DNR stuff?

[RecycleMichael]

Instead of Rufnex...should we call you rufbutts?

[USRuffiage]

Mr Ruf is on a low-fibre full liquid diet...

I am Ruf's colon... and have many secrets to share... [:O]

[HoneySuckle]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Lacroscopic surgery Monday afternoon... Just came home today (Thursday afternoon)

Post op polyp/tumor examined was T1.  CT scan last week already came back "clean."

No chemo or radiation recommended.
Will have another colonoscopy in a year.

Yay!

I am so glad to read this.  My sister is still battling stage IV colon cancer.  At 45, she now looks like Tammy Faye, and weighs about 90 lbs.  Better to get checked early.

Take care.

[USRufnex]

Well, I can understand how tough it is to see your sister like that.  

I guess (back a few years ago) I got through by seeing my grandfather's body as merely a shell; and focused on his eyes and looked for glimpses of the grand-dad I knew.  Couldn't dwell on how he was feeling/looking the weeks or months before... it was day by day... no looking back...

I consider myself a "recovering evangelical" so even though I appreciate other people's prayers, I don't like it when some folks act like their prayers work while other people's prayers are "ignored."..... I didn't do anything to have things go so well... and your sister didn't do anything to deserve to have things go the way they have... for some reason, being back in bible-belt Tulsa compels me to say stuff like that... well, you get the idea...

As far as getting checked early... I guess you're supposed to start at 50, but I'm 42 and didn't have a family history, at least not a history of colon cancer...

I felt a little foolish for not getting things checked out as soon as I started to notice a little bit of blood in my stool; I waited a couple a months and figured I'd get to it eventually and it was probably just hemorrhoids or ulcers or something like that.  

But then when I got that really nasty Tulsa flu in February, I made sure the doctor knew I'd seen blood in the stool a few times... yeah, playing with your XXXX using a couple of popsicle sticks for the FOBT test wasn't alot of fun, but after it came out positive, I was sent over to make the appt for a colonoscopy...

It wasn't until after the colonoscopy I found out (after "googling" like a madman), that by the time you start getting "symptoms" for colon cancer, you could already be too late.

The polyp found was the size of a golf ball, and the biopsy taken showed a Grade II adenocarcinoma.  From the talk, I assumed they'd find the cancer stage 2 or stage 3... So, I'm feeling fortunate to not have to go in for chemo... I'm sure there'll be more follow ups in the next few weeks/months/years?....

For what it's worth, laparoscopic surgery rocks!