Woman expecting colon surgery wakes up to learn she had hysterectomy: report

It’s a case of going under the knife for one thing only to receive a totally different outcome, according to a media report.

This happened to Devlynn Cyr, a former paramedic in the Canadian province of Alberta who went to the hospital planning to have surgery to repair her colon due to a rupture that was accompanied by chronic pain, inflammation, and constipation.

The thing is Devlynn Cyr was told she was getting an ostomy, where, according to the Mayo Clinic, waste would be excreted into a bag through an external opening in the abdomen.

But when Cyr woke up from the surgery she was told the harrowing news that she had stage 3 colon cancer. Even more shocking was the news of a sudden hysterectomy that doctors had to perform during surgery, where she shared in a TikTok video that “everything was like concrete.”

“My husband gets a phone call halfway through surgery saying, ‘Here’s the problem. We found a tumor and it’s cemented to my uterus,’” she exclusively told People.

Initially, her husband Greg thought the call meant that his wife’s surgery was already over and it was a good sign.

But that surely wasn’t the case.

Her husband was told his wife had a tumor the size of a baseball and “in order to safely remove the tumor, they need to do a hysterectomy,” he recalled in an interview with People magazine.

With reality setting in, he admitted to being afraid that his wife of six months would “be mad at me and resent me for having to make that decision. We had talked about having children.”

But doctors dashed those hopes when they explained to Greg that due to what the cancer had done to his wife’s fallopian tubes and uterus, the idea of the couple producing children wouldn’t be possible.

This was awful news for the pair, considering Devlynn suffered a previous miscarriage just months before.

“All of a sudden, my husband sits on the bed and he’s like, ‘I gotta tell you something,’ and my heart sank. He said, ‘I had to make a decision, and they gave you a hysterectomy, but you have no ostomy bag.’”

She told People, “I couldn’t process the hysterectomy because I’m like, ‘I now don’t have an option of children?’” She added that she wanted to know, “Did they retrieve some eggs for me to be able to have children in the future? Like, do they even think of these things?”

Sadly, no eggs were retrieved for Devlynn and the sudden reality was heartbreaking.

From there, she turned to TikTok for others who may have been in the same situation concerning cancer and fertility. Without finding anything to relate to, Devlynn decided to embark in her own lane and began sharing “the drama-filled ups and downs of having cancer. The hardship on a marriage or a relationship.”

Creating her own content, Devlynn Cyr started with 88 followers when she made her first video on Sept. 26, but little did she know that the number would soon balloon to more than she expected.

“I woke up to almost 13,000,” she told People.

Some people might not have agreed with her sharing the details of such a gruesome reality, but others have voiced that it was much needed.

“A lot of people were like, ‘thank you,’” she told People. “This is exactly how I felt. I was scared, too. Now, I know that I don’t need to be.’”

Since her cancer has a 50 percent chance of returning if she doesn’t undergo chemotherapy, Devlynn will soon begin the six-month process and has begun documenting the initial chemo steps on her TikTok account with her husband by her side.

“Nobody is alone,” she told People. “I really hope that people find solace in seeing that we’re working through this. It’s okay to not be OK sometimes.”