Getting admitted to hospital to test for Crohn's disease, does this sound right?

[NicoAndTheNiners]

Dd has just turned 18yo so deals direct with her gastro consultant now. She has coeliac disease and weight loss continues as do other symptoms. Her GP said he thinks she has Crohn's and did an urgent referral back to her gastro consultant.

Dd told me today she's probably going to miss her A levels as she's been told she will be admitted to hospital in around 2 months time for a few days for tests.

She says she's spoken to her consultant about moving it back and apparantly he said he didn't want to because he thinks due to her symptoms it's urgent, this is the earliest he can get her in and that if she doesn't come then it will be months and months afterwards because he's already booked people in after her. Saying that she doesn't have an exact date yet and she says they will ring/write with an exact date nearer the time.

I just assumed she would be having a colonoscopy as a day case, why would she need admitting for days? She says he's said they want to test for bowel cancer but again wouldn't that just be bloods/colonoscopy?

Do you think that she is just reassuring herself that there may be a way out of exam stress?
Agree you can't interfere with her medical stuff but you can with the school.
I would innocently tell the school college what she has said and let them tell her the reality

Your DD needs to find out the number of the person who makes the bookings (ring consultant's secretary to find out who this is). Then she can talk about the timings of her admission.

Most A level papers are within a fortnight, of an overall window of about a month. As this I said not a 2week cancer referral, it should be possible to go in immediately after her last paper. As long as she is proactive now about arranging it.