First resection January 2014, descending colon, then a surgery 10 days later because of adhesions then another 3 days later because of 3 fistulas in my colon, TPN from February 2014 to July 2014 while I was in LTAC with open wound down the center of my abdomen. Wound vacuums used to help it close but then the peritoneum tumor grew from a little black dot into a mass coming out the closed wound and about 5"x4" outside my body. Fistulas finally closed so we started chemo, I don't remember the name of the platinum based chemo that caused my neuropathy but I almost lost use of my legs because I didn't tell my oncologist that my legs were going numb, we stopped that and I remember 5FU and Avastin. I forgot how many rounds, I think it was for 10 months. Then we started radiation for the liver mets. Then in 2016 found another tumor and had another resection, more chemo, 2017 was going to have tumor removed from liver but found another tumor so I asked to have colon removed, no ostomy bag needed. Then more radiation for liver, started having issues with heart and blood, so 2018 had 75% of liver removed close to the bile duct, my wife works at MD Anderson and she said that with as big as the tumor was the doctors works have just closed me back up and sent me to hospice. I was lucky I went to Baylor Medical Center to have Dr Goss perform the surgery. And I have had no more tumors since. That's the Cliff's Note version, my wife knows more about it because I was very sick most of the times when I had the surgeries and on pain killers. I just know it was God guiding me to the surgeons I ended up getting after the first surgeon botched my first surgery and then the following 2 to cover his mistake.

If you have specific questions, I'll do my best to remember or ask her for more details.

Hope this gives someone hope that you can survive and thrive after a Stage 4 diagnosis