Help reading CT scan results!

Because this forum has always been so helpful and knowlegeable about things, I was wondering if anyone has experience in CT scan/radiology terminology.  I have spoken to the doctor about it, but I was wondering if you guys could just tell me in plain English what some of this means.

"There is diffuse dialation of the small bowel and colon.  There is gas and stool throughout colon."  (i thought that part is normal)

"There is minimal gas in the right retroperitonem extending along the posterior abdomin wall of uncertain etoligy.  Correlate with history of intervention or injury."

Do you guys know what this is?   Thank you in advance!

Oh... and to anyone out there who has has preforations in their colon...  do you have surgery for that?  Do things like that get worse if not treated and what causes that?  Sorry off topic, but i had to ask that.  Thank you again!

 

Funny thing.. is that I got these results last night in the ER department... and the doctor told me last night it was just another part of my chronic illeus..

then JUST NOW, right when I posted this, this morning.. another doctor, head of the ER dept. just called me to tell me they found this small preforation in my colon behind my abs???? He said if i get worse to come in , but in my condition i only get worse, so its not different to me. I contacted my current GI about this also this morning, and I guess I'll wait to see whats next.
Funny how they called me because they messed up in not telling me this, and they found more. wouldn't that be a huge mess-up on their end?
Is the surgery for preforations major? painful? how long?
what are your symptoms of preforations?

thank you for helping me out. when these preforations started with you, was it something you had eaten to cause it? were you at home and then rushed to the ER? How soon after did they do surgery? It took hours for them just to do a CT, let alone a surgery. What did you do in the hospital everyday for those 22 days?

yeah, i think they know they released me when they should not have, even though they did want to keep me because of my ileus condition, but this perforation was not mentioned last night. they called me this morning to tell me the new news.

No its nothing to do with my diet or eating, I had taken a M2A study, is what it was called at the time, for mouth 2 anus, and its the pill capsule camera, I swallowed it and it was supposed to pass no later then like 3 days i believe, but on day 5 still hadnt passed, but I flared so I was in the ER and then admitted to a floor, a fill-in GI went and did a colonoscopy while I was in there and we kinda think that caused it, but it wasnt his fault, it was because I was inflammed so much that the pill camera got caught or stuck at a inflammation point, and the GI went and flew the air in with the scope to let it pass the inflammation point, well we believe that caused the porforations. I was in MY local Regional Medical Center where all my doctors were. that night my surgeon came in to see me and while he was there the camera passed through and into my ostomy. My GI was leaving town to go hiking through mts in another country in asia and would be gone for 30 days, he and everyone else knows I have a severe case and he said he didnt trust another doctor or GI running my case for my sake, and this is a hospital of about 650 doctors might not sound like a lot to a university hospital but this is a regional medical center. So I was transferred to the capital, Richmond Virginia that night, and sent to VCU or Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, which was previously MCV, or Medical College of Virginia. I was at the local medical center for 6 days, and VCU for 16 days, it even took a week as I can remember to find out there was porforations, they knew there was air in the bowels but didnt realize how much or why. Anyways when they found out, I had two doctors that didnt leave my room, and I got an EJ port, and a port in my arteries deep in my leg which sucks and hurts. I was in surgery within 2 hours of finding out there were porforations. I didnt have to find things to do, I was in so much pain and was getting so much pain medicine they had a pain mangement dr come manage my case for medications alone, which is when I realized there was pain management. Anyways I dont even remember most of it, I remember leaving the local hospital getting to the University hospital I remember when the chief resident told me I might die, and I remember them saying my potassium was so low they were worried Id go into cardiac arrest, so I got bag after bag in IV, had to drink liquid, which is the worst taste you'll ever have, AND the big yellow horse pills for it also.