Re: Hi, back from hospital stay-to Tracey

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Yikes, Tracey. You said this like it is an everyday thing. It

isn't.

I had a liver abscess following my abdominal surgery and was on the

brink of death as a result. I spent an extra month in the hospital

and

another month in bed with a private nurse. Even then, I had

catheters

coming out of my liver (one under my diaphram) for a couple of

months,

with a bag that had to be drained daily. Yuk.

This is awful. How long were you in the hospital? Is it completely

resolved now? BTW: I was told that I got my abscess because the

surgeon chose to do one operation to remove all of the cancer at the

same time (that is, he resectioned the colon and resectioned the

liver

in one surgery - and removed other organs, 2 of which were

malignant.)

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> > Had an abscess in my colon the size of a melon. Seems that the

tumor

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> > my rectum tore the colon and bacteria got into my abdomen and

created

> > an abscess. The downside of having a tumor shrink!

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