- I am so glad to see some of these posts. My husband is having a
reversal done the first week of Sept. He has only had the colostomy
since March . It is because of a ruptured bowel twice and the large
intestine also. We were told that the stay could be 4-5 days.
Wondering about this also because we were there 17 days in march. and
two other stays in the hospital one in april and one in may. Thanks
for these posts really help us with our wonders also. Carla









-- In colostomy@yahoogroups.com, diane taylor <gptrport@...> wrote:
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> He probably has an incision from just above his belly button to his
groin down the center. He will have an incision where they closed
the stoma 1/2--2". That will probably have packing in it that you
mnay have to pull out. They put a couple sutures in my stoma but
took them out when they took packing out. They did not pack it
again. That was at day 5. Not sure what packing was. They pulled
a bunch of material out of the stoma incision. That was kinda wierd
to watch that. They just left it open. I was sitting there getting
ready to go home, with my sweat pants down around hips, okkkkkk,
now what, lol.? Surgeon said, go home, lol.
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> I had my origninal surgery because of diverticulitis and colon
perfornation. I don't know much about fistulas except that they are
an abnormal opening either to the skin or between 2 organs. He may
have a different incision in rectal area???
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> Doug and Kim Skinner <skinnerqh@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am a nursing student going to do a
clinical on a
> colostomy reversal. What can I expect to see? I have looked all
over my
> textbook and the net but have been unable to find much about this.
I
> know that my patient is a young male that had a colostomy done to
allow
> a rectal fistula to heal. He is now having the reversal done and I
> will be seeing him the day of his surgery. I am interested in know
> about what incisions there will be ect. I just want to be prepared.
> thanks,
> KS
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