The stoma is a special group of patients. According to relevant data, more than 1.5 million people have become permanent stomatologists due to rectal cancer, and this group still increases by 100,000 people every year.

Ostomic people are a group of special patients. According to relevant data, more than 1.5 million people have become permanent stomatologists due to rectal cancer, and this group still increases by 100,000 people every year.

They live in "hang" with their stoma pockets every day, and 90% of the patients have psychological disorders to varying degrees. Even a simple job or a sincere love may be an unattainable dream for them.

1. People who lose their anus

Xiaoyan (pseudonym)'s mother is one in 1.5 million. Five years ago, her mother said on the phone that she would wake up from her stomach pain at around 3 a.m. every day, and she lost a lot of weight.

A few days later, Xiaoyan rushed back from another place and took his mother to see a doctor. The results showed that mucous colon cancer was mid-stage . At that time, Xiaoyan's mind was blank. His mother, who insisted on physical examinations every year, had never had colonoscopy , and colonoscopy was a key means to prevent intestinal cancer.

Three days later, her mother was pushed into the operating room. She thought she had just a colon tumor, but her tumor was only 9 cm away from her anus. Two years after the operation, the mother's condition worsened. The tumor of was only 3 cm away from the anus. The probability of preserving the anus is very small and the stoma may be required. After learning the truth, my mother struggled, but she finally accepted the doctor's advice.

stoma is just an outlet and cannot be controlled at will. In order to facilitate the examination of intestinal and feces, stoma pocket is transparent, which also leaves the patient's self-esteem without a place to hide.

5 days later, my mother was discharged from the hospital, and became very seldom of talking, seldom of eating, and rarely going out . She began to avoid going to public places, for fear that others would smell strange smells, and spray a lot of perfume before going out. When she smells strange smells on the street, she would immediately nervously wonder if it was her.

At home, she refused her daughter to help her, not letting her help take a shower, and even letting Xiaoyan get close to her. When the cancer was diagnosed, my mother did not cry, nor did she cry before the operation. The first time she cried was when she changed the bag...

One night, Xiaoyan heard a faint sound from the living room. She was worried that her mother had encountered something, so she got up to check it out. I found that there were red letters on the north wall of the living room. My mother was standing on a chair, holding a pen in her right hand, wearing her favorite long skirt, and a chandelier above her head. There was a tied rope hanging on top of her .

At that time, Xiao Yan's head roared. When his mother saw her, she said to her, "I haven't made up my mind yet." The two hugged their heads and cried. The next day, they both had a very tacit understanding and no longer mentioned it.

Disease makes this proud woman exhausted.

Later, Xiaoyan discovered that his mother had stopped the medicine. Later, Xiaoyan went home one day and found that his mother took away his favorite clothes, stoma pockets, medicine and a photo of his mother and daughter. ran away from home .

It was not until a week later that my mother came back and told Xiaoyan that she had gone to the nursing home. She saw that there were all sick elderly people living in it, and there were also patients with stoma patients like her. The nurse casually wiped her stomach with a cloth, and did not change clothes and sheets and . My pension is not enough to pay the accommodation fee. Forget it, let’s go home.

Since then, my mother began to "open up" and no longer fear going out, nor resist Xiaoyan's help... After two years, my mother almost lived in the hospital for a long time, and one day he left calmly at 3:30 in the morning.

2. It is difficult to detect when intestinal cancer is coming. For 4 symptoms, beware of

0% of colorectal cancers have no obvious symptoms in the early stage. If you do not actively perform colonoscopy , it is difficult to be detected. But more or less, there will be some abnormalities in the intestines, so once these symptoms appear, they should be taken seriously.

, frequent bloody stool

Bloody stool is the earliest and most common manifestation of colorectal cancer, but this symptom is similar to hemorrhoids and is often confused by patients.

In fact, Hemorrhoids and blood stool is bright red in color, and the blood stains do not mix with the feces, and they are mostly dripping after defecation. However, bloody stools in colorectal cancer are darker in color, and are mostly mixed with stools, which are dark red or asphalt stools.

. Abdominal pain, mass

Partial Colon cancer patients will have abdominal pain, abdominal distension, abdominal discomfort, and symptoms are waves of abdominal colic. After exhaust, the pain will disappear. Or if you feel a harder lump on the right middle abdomen, accompanied by abdominal pain, weight loss and other symptoms, check it in time.

. Changes in bowel movements

Defecation has obvious changes from the past. For example, in the past, the bowel movement has become 3-4 times a day, or only once every few days;

Defecation always feels unclear, or constipation and diarrhea alternately, and mucus stool, pus and bloody stool ; the shape of the stool changes, becoming very thin, with grooves, etc.

, systemic symptoms

As the tumor develops, patients may experience varying degrees of anemia, symptoms such as fatigue and fatigue of unknown causes, and they need to go to the hospital for a check-up.

3. Colonoscopy, it is really not to be ignored. The latest global cancer data released by WHO shows that in 2020, 1.93 million colorectal cancer patients were diagnosed worldwide, of which 550,000 new colorectal cancer patients in my country in 2020, accounting for 12.2% of the number of newly confirmed cancers. The number of deaths from rectal cancer in women has become the second leading cause of cancer death in women.

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Professor Li Zhaoshen once publicly stated: You will have no problem doing a colonoscopy for five or ten years. Early stage colorectal cancer is very atypical and easy to miss diagnosis. Colonoscopy is currently the most cost-effective examination method. Through colonoscopy, early detection and even precancerous blockade can be achieved, greatly reducing the occurrence of intestinal cancer.

According to the "China Expert Consensus on Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer 2020", the following groups are recommended for colonoscopy early screening:

• Age ≥40 years old, regardless of men and women,
• long-term smoking and drinking;
• has a family history of colorectal polyps or colon cancer;
• undergoes cholecystectomy, chronic appendicitis or appendicectomy;
• long-term lack of exercise, high-fat diet, and high-salt diet.
• Long-term constipation, diarrhea, group with changes in bowel habits, unknown abdominal pain, bloody stools, and weight loss.
• inflammatory bowel disease , familial polyposis.

An ostomy man said, what is the purpose of our ostomy? Isn't it just to live?

Stomatal is a life choice. As a special group in society, people with stomatals need care, social support and recognition, and they also need to reconcile with themselves. If you step out of your own level, everything else may not be so important.

Reference:

[1] "People who lost their anus". Real story plan. 2022-08-05

[2] "These symptoms may have come, and it is not too late to deal with it now." Lao Du said health. 2022-02-13

[3] "In China, 1 million people lost their anus due to intestinal cancer... Doctors are not spared." Metz Medicine. 2021-10-14

Reproduction of

without the author's permission is prohibited.