In this Tuesday’s episode of Holby City, one of the story lines featured a laproscopic (keyhole) Crohns operation which had to be swapped to being a full right hemicolectomy (fully invasive, big cut, big scar etc).
Well that’s exactly what happened to me! To watch the episode (if you’re in the UK) click on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s5wlg/Holby_City_Series_12_XY_Factor/
My operation for a right hemicolectomy was almost exactly 2 months ago now, on 18th February. So I thought it about time I posted again to update the world on what’s been happening since; the good, the bad and the extremely ugly. Read more…
What is Seroma, or a Seroma?
Well, the answer is here, but in summary it is what I *may* be suffering from with my post op. wound.
Of course, I could be suffering from some nasty sepsic infection too, but lets hope not!
Right hemi-what you say?
Right Hemicolectomy – that’s the surgery I had last Thursday. Essentially what it entails is keyhole (or not) surgery to disect and rejoin parts of the intestine, usually chopping out a chunk of small intestine and re-joining it just before the connection into the large intestine. A good descriptive text of the operation (ignore the cancer part) can be found HERE.
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In 2 days time I go in to hospital to have an operation to relieve some of the symptoms of my Crohns. What I’m having done is a resection of the lower end of my small intestine, using keyhole surgery and a “small incision”.
Current rumour has it that I’ll be stuck in there (Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton, if you’re interested) for up to 7 days. Then it’s going to be up to 8 weeks of recovery at home (!!!!)
(I don’t think I’ll be sticking to that if I can possibly avoid it)
I’ve been hideously ill over the last few days. It all started on Friday when I was stupid enough to drink a couple of pints of beer. Usually nothing to bother me, but not at the moment… Read more…
Hospitals… we all love to bitch about them. Me more than most sometimes, especially recently.
However, I was forced to eat my words over the last weekend following a particularly nasty flare up of my Crohns which left me begging for the attention of the good doctors and nurses at West Middlesex Hospital (otherwise known as “hell on earth”). Read more…
From the Engadget