That is correct. Before my mother’s surgery her doctor painted the colostomy to be something easy , that she will feel comfortable and will not even notice she wears it, that her life wont change and that it is easy to care and change. Defintely not the truth , there are complications, but often doctors make it sound easy because a patient’s life depends on having the surgery and getting a colostomy. Out of good intentions.My friend also has one - its never easy often a flare up or infection
Tiffanys life isnt going to be easy, its how she decides to cope with it!
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Meanwhile over on the funny farm (and it's not a GNOME, it's a sodding gonk!):
While you are busy fattening up a bit, you should consider fattening up your gnome. He has to gain weight also. If you can hand sew a bit, or know anyone who sews, have then open up his "bottom" (the seam on bottom of his back) just large enough for you to fit rocks inside him and fill him to make him heavier. The more rocks, the heavier he will be. You may have to remove some stuffing to make more space for the rocks. Just be sure to cover the rocks with the stuffing. Test it for balance before closing up the seam (best to use a whip stitch.) I make those gnomes, and I put river rocks that I buy in the craft store inside them. Darn, I was hoping you wouldn't need a surgery. Well, we must be thankful for God's little mercies. At least you can still do a surgery. It will be okay. You will get through this. We are all out here praying for you, Tiff. May God bless you all at this difficult time. Sending regards to your mom, Matt and the rest of the family. Regards from Ruth in Florida.
While you are busy fattening up a bit, you should consider fattening up your gnome. He has to gain weight also. If you can hand sew a bit, or know anyone who sews, have then open up his "bottom" (the seam on bottom of his back) just large enough for you to fit rocks inside him and fill him to make him heavier. The more rocks, the heavier he will be. You may have to remove some stuffing to make more space for the rocks. Just be sure to cover the rocks with the stuffing. Test it for balance before closing up the seam (best to use a whip stitch.) I make those gnomes, and I put river rocks that I buy in the craft store inside them. Darn, I was hoping you wouldn't need a surgery. Well, we must be thankful for God's little mercies. At least you can still do a surgery. It will be okay. You will get through this. We are all out here praying for you, Tiff. May God bless you all at this difficult time. Sending regards to your mom, Matt and the rest of the family. Regards from Ruth in Florida.
If a patient has a too low bmi at the time of the operation, it will lead to e.g. delayed wound healing and impaired immune function according to a publication. And that’s logical because there are no reserves anymore in the body.
Boy scrolling back years and years in these videos nothing has really changed. Eating issues and nonstop videos of eating junk food...obsession with makeup and one video on lip injections...another with sister getting "bum" injections of D3 as Dr. told her she is very deficient. She loved that doctor too...mentioned he was "lovely" and "he touched my hair" and said he took photos of her. I think she implied he was attracted to her. The ten years leading up to this when Tiff was in her 20',s. One after another video all the same.
I wonder why she never talks about the medical problems she had in her past, I asked her about it several times.
8 months?? No way, she must have had symptoms for years. In older people colorectal cancer takes about 10-15 years to develop from a polyp. In her case due to her age it must have been shorter, but no months. Hence the size of the tumour.
Nope she does not want to talk about it but as I watched that video post 9 day hospital stay I really wonder what that was about. I am sure no one is kept in a NHS hospital for that long unless the condition warranted it. She was supposed to home resting but got Tiroy to take her out for some junk food. Amma just sort of sits back and seems to have little input as to what Tiff does.
May be she doesn’t eat much because of her bowel issues and problems digesting passing food etc. My dad had a bowel tumor and had terrible problems.
I doubt they read them and clearly it generates income
I agree this had been progressing for years and she has a history of Dr. visits and one hospital stay of 9 nights years ago. She was told to change eating habits but never did. I get what the poster meant about things getting blown off if you are a young seemingly healthy woman but as I look back on her videos I don't think all of this is a big surprise at all and probably some blame on the first docs when she was bleeding not doing more this time but again Tiff shares what sells on YT nothing more.
She also acts very different around Matt. Teroy is no "darling"
Poor guyA large T4b tumor does not develop in a few months indeed. Also before her diagnosis, Tiffany look for years very thin, compared to her sister and the rest of the Tamil women in her family even though what we mostly saw in those videos was food and eating. I wondered why she was so thin with food been the main interest in the family videos.
She may have certainly, but I think around that time is when the symptoms became worse. Of course, I'm really not sure as to an exact timeline, just going by what she said, which wasn't entirely clear. It is common for people with colon cancer not to have symptoms in the early stages of disease.
Welcome to the support group for the puzzled, sad and disappointed. If you have time threads 5 and 6 here may be helpful. If you, like a number of us, do not want to watch TT videos anymore but want to keep up with her cancer treatment there are people here who summarize the videos when they get posted.
Yes, of course, a T4b tumor doesn't develop in months, however, sometimes more severe symptoms don't develop until later stages of the disease and less severe symptoms are often dismissed as something else. Hence, the reason why some people aren't diagnosed with colon cancer until it is advanced. Especially younger people where it's often dismissed as something else.
That is very true, because colorectal cancer is not common in the under 35’s compared to other age groups and often there are genetic factors affecting young people getting colorectal cancer
I noticed she eats very little and very small bites. I thought maybe she had some eating disorder but some have hinted she may have gastrointestinal disease. Perhaps she gets sick often if she eats the wrong food.
I believe he was trying to get her to get the surgery he didn’t say only for her mental health I’m sure of that..he’s probably said if only for her mental health alone it’d be better than the w&w..and remember how she protested how sound her mental health was..she’s picked the w&w not the surgeon..she didn’t want the surgery and she still doesn’t as was seen when she asked Matt and her sis in the car, if these new biopsies produced no cancer would that mean no surgery..she’s still grasping at straws..
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