Stuclark's mumblings

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/

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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