I am being seen by a surgeon in Cambridge. Very nice man but I asked him yesterday for a second opinion just in case. This is my life and I have to advocate for myself. No one else will. He's pretty adamant I need a permanent colostomy and obviously, if I can avoid that, I want to. But at the same time, where the tumor is located is going to make it pretty much impossible to maintain regular bowel functioning. I feel like Toronto would have better specialists, but they're also postponing/cancelling so many things due to Covid and I just want to move on and get this cancer out of me stat before it spreads. I'm Stage 1 right now and want to keep it that way, you know? I'm trying to keep a positive outlook and focus on staying alive for my children and if a colostomy is the only solution, so be it. Thanks for your quick reply and for listening. Scary times. Not my best year, that's for sure! I hope I can look back on all of this craziness in a couple years and laugh?!