hi,
my mum passed away at the start of this year following a short battle with bowel cancer. Given the size of the tumour her consultant advised that he would need to try and shrink it with a combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He also advised that she urgently needed to have a stoma fitted to take some of the pressure off of the tumour. My mum has the op and all seemingly went to plan and she was released five days later to recover ahead of her treatment commencing. However a further five days after she was sent home she was rushed back to hospital where they discovered she had a perforated bowel which had led to sepsis. They told us they couldn’t help her and she died the following day.
Not or sure what I’m looking for but has anyone else heard of this? Limited response from hospital at the time to death saying that the gas used to inflate the bowel to help them see it better for the stoma op hadn’t released and likely resulted in the perforation. I can’t find any examples of this elsewhere and just struggling to deal with losing her so fast and in such a terrible way. I think we need to ask for a full explanation from the hospital but not sure how I go about that. Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Leanne
