Hi all,
My husband has been put on the 2 week path way as he’s had rectal bleeding for about 4 weeks that we are aware off, he has no pain, no loss of appetite, his bowel habits have changed in that he just feels the need to keep going but not doing a lot and can’t pass wind without it being bloody, he just has pressure right in the bottom of his back passage. He was initially treated by the doctors for internal haemorrhoids and given the normal treatment to which it hasn’t done anything and this is when we went back to the doctors who then done an internal exam and said they couldn’t feel anything, provided with 3 sample pots one of those being the FIT test to which it can back at 170. As you can imagine we’re now both eating ourselves up that he has cancer. The only blessing is that there is no history of cancer in his family and hoping it’s just a large pollop, however we still keep going back to it being cancer. My husband is 50 and never been sick in his life and never attended hospital, me on the other hand has quite a complex medical history and also have a stoma and been through this procedure many times so know what to expect.
The questions I have are huge but the main one is that I will be going with him next week and he’s chosen to have gas and air, but the letter we received state that once the procedure is finished he will be told what they’ve found etc and then he can leave. Can we request that once the procedure is over that I be brought into the room so I can be there for the findings. We’ve been together 25 years and 20 of them I’ve not been well and as much as he comes to the hospital with me etc he doesn’t understand medical talk, me on the other hand I understand everything. I want to be there if the news is good or bad as he will not be able to take it all in.
He’s the strongest man I know and have never seen him cry, not even after the birth of our daughter and that’s all we seem to be doing at the moment and it’s breaking my heart. It’s the not knowing and the wait seems like a lifetime away. We talk so much and he has a good support at work which is good, but I lost both my parents within the past 10 years and they were always my go too for chats and don’t have that now, so feel that all this is weighing heavy on me as he needs me more than ever but my health isn’t the best and I’m also waiting for major revision surgery of my stoma.
I’m sorry for the long post just need some reassurance that it’s going to be ok despite the outcome.