Scar tissue after colon resection causing bowel obstruction

Posted by jesusfreakinmn @jesusfreakinmn, Jun 8, 2021

My mother had colorectal cancer removed in 2014 with an ileostomy bag for 3 months then the were able to reconnect the colon. She is currently in the hospital with an obstruction most likely caused by scar tissue at the point where the reconnect was done. Does anyone know the removal procedure? They have tubed down her nose pumping out fluids for 3 days now and IV fluids, no food or liquid as she puked that up, only ice chips and swabs. Looking at surgery. Is this going to be a situation where she will require another bag????? Or can this cobe corrected lapescope?

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lisag03 | @lisag03 | Feb 28 7:31am

I developed an adhesion caused bowel obstruction 3 months after my two surgeries to remove a tumor in my sigmoid. I was kept on NG tube and no food for a week to see if it would clear. Ultimately, I ended up with surgery (laporoscopic) and he spent multiple hours removing adhesions and scar tissue. Ultimately, during that surgery, my bowel was cut and I developed some complications but have not had any issues since (that was in 2019). My colonoscopy shows that there is no narrowing of my small bowel. They removed quite a bit of small bowel and then more later when I had a perforation