Loop Ileostomy

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Talking to Dr. Paluri, chemo was going to be the first line of offense in this battle.

The name of the game is to shrink the tumors in the liver, to where the small ones basically disappear, and the large one is reduced so it can be resected surgically.

The tumor in the colon would need to be resected surgically as well.

Since she would need to have a loop ileostomy for the colon surgery later down the road anyways, everyone on thought it would be best to go ahead and do that now.

The reason for that, is to eliminate the risk of another blockage, causing another perforation, causing another infection. 
An infection like that happening again, while she is on chemo, would be a very big deal as her immune system will not be very strong at that time.

She was scheduled to have the loop ileostomy procedure done on Monday April 19, 2021. 

It went very well. She was admitted and stayed in the hospital until Thursday April 22, 2021.
During that week the ostomy nurse (Jill), who is very awesome, went over everything we needed to know about caring for the stoma. We felt comfortable with it, and it was healing nicely, so we went home Thursday afternoon. She was feeling pretty good. We went for a walk with the dog in the neighborhood.

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