Had the surgery 2/19 to remove the entire sigmoid colon and all the related lymph nodes.
Was in recovery 2/19 to 2/23 and released to go home!
The biopsy results came in late today and confirmed 0/12 lymph nodes were malignant. That’s it! It’s clean! No stage 3, no chemo required!
Follow up with the surgeon on 4/1 to talk about where we go from here, my guess is colonoscopies 2x a year for life now since it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months.
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, wear blue and get checked!
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Not sure when I’ll be back modding, I still feel like someone slammed me in the gut with a baseball bat. Cricket bat for our international folks! Maybe another 2-3 weeks.
I still lurk and comment occasionally, just as my health allows!
Edit Bonus - Since my wife had her own medical event this year involving a massive infection, spinal intrusion and below knee amputation, we already hit the out of pocket maximum on our insurance for the year.
Sooo…
Get insurance guys, no, seriously, get insurance.
Congratulations!
Congrats, love you!
live long and prosper
That’s some great world news! Congrats!
Alhumdullilah brother amazing to hear!
So glad it was found early. Take time to heal and care for each other. That sounds really rough.
Wonderful news! Sorry to hear about your wife’s issues though. It sounds like you guys have been through it! Hope it’s calmer for you both now. Speedy recovery.
2026 has been the longest year of our lives and it’s FEBRUARY!
Congrats! So glad that it was found early;
it’s crazy that you have to pay for these life-saver visits and operations btw…w
It’s really anti-human.
But, think about the capital…
America - for profit everything!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! I’m so happy for you! This was the post I’ve been hoping to see!
depending on your insurance, i recently had to switch ACA from state healthcare, trying to get back on state eventually as it covers everything, including dental. private is tricky since the subsidies has ended and you have to pay more for deductible/oop.
Congrats, Jordan! Take as much time as you need. If things get out of hand here, there’ll always be people ready to help.
That’s some really good news! Congrats!
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Wow that’s incredible news! Congrats! So glad you’re back 🎉
Nice!
Obviously you don’t have to answer since it’s personal, but I am curious: How does that effect your digestion? I always kinda wonder how much intestine you really need, because apparently it’s not all of it.
The colon is all about pulling water out of your stool to make poop, well… poop!
The sigmoid colon is the last line of that process. So without it, poop will still be poop, but maybe not necessarily as firm as it would be with it.
In my case, that works to my advantage, because I take statin drugs and statin drugs make me miserable. Having slightly looser stool might actually make me normal for a change!
