colon cancer

[Guest guest]

Hi. My son-in-law Adam, 26 years old, has just been told he has

colon cancer. The whole thing doesn't make sense to me. On April

24th, my daughter Mandy and Adam went to the hospital to have their

second child. I spent the day there being with them both. At 6:38

p.m. my new grandson was born. I spent some time with all of them

that evening and then went to pick Zoie, their 16 month old

daughter, up from the sitters. Later that night Mandy called and

told me that Adam was going to the ER room for he became ill. Adam

has been having stomach problems now for a few weeks and was

doctoring to try to see what was going on. He was scheduled on

April 25th for an ultra sound. Anyway, Adam left Mandy's room in

the OB ward and went to the ER room. The doctor on call did an

emergency cat scan and they discovered a mass in Adams bowel. Adam

had surgery Tuesday afternoon to remove the tumor. During the

surgery the doctor seen more tumors in the intestine area. Those

could not be taken out is what we were told. After the surgery the

doctor explained to us that Adam went through surgery fine but he

did fear that the tumor he took out and the tumors that he had to

leave were cancer, not being 100% sure, but with his experience he

figured that was what we were dealing with. On Friday of last week

Adam had to go back and have his staples taken out and to find out

the path tests results. We are dealing with colon cancer. He will

be seeing the oncologist on May 23rd to discuss it all. The twist

to all of this is Adam has been on workmans comp. for a back injury

that has to be operated on...(a bulging disk problem). Adam has

been dealing with that since Christmas of 2005. I am so scared for

Adam and my daughter. They have 4 children under the age of 5 years

old. I was hoping for any information I could get to learn more

about colon cancer and treatment. I do know the doctor stated it

was an aggressive cancer and it has started to spread. Adam will be

having a total body scan soon I believe to see exactly where it has

spread too. I would appreciate any comments from all members and

please keep my kids in your prayers.

 

Thank you. Michelle