It happened to my wife 24 days ago. E room, emergency surgery late in the evening, stoma and two 50cent sized holes in the abdomen to mark the end of the staples. Not fun at all.
The kicker is that she had been told by her surgeon last year to schedule an operation. You may know the spiel “you do not want emergency surgery on this, get it done ASAP”.
When she presented it to her primary physician, he said “why would you want to get an operation if you don’t need one”? So she dismissed the recommendation.
I had to endure the osteomy misery for most of the year.
Part of the delay was my original and great surgeon dying from some freak aneurysm I heard.
His replacement was not so hot. What times I went to him jumping every hoop he set from month to month I might as well not be in the exam room.
His last bit of sage medical advice really upset me and my wife. The short version “lose 40 pounds and see you in November” followed up with “I did so you can as well.”
I was able to get a second opinion with a top surgeon in the same system via a very unexpected route.
One stop shopping with the replacement. Everything has gone as advertised. A little tenderness here and there with some minor discomfort in the reversed section. That is going away ever so slowly.
Surgery on Wednesday morning and I was released Sunday morning.