Good luck on your surgery! Hope everything goes well, and that it works well.
I had my ileostomy reversed in Jan/Feb this year, and although I know things still have to settle down I'm grateful I don't have a bag anymore, and that I can go to the loo like normal!
Thinking of you, and best wishes,
Lin Vermey (the Kiwi)
>----- Original Message -----
From: Lynda Esparza <lindylu@nitline.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2001 08:54
Subject: colostomy
> Well, I've been scheduled to have my colostomy reversed in 2 weeks. It
> will be interesting to see how many adhesions have formed since the
> original surgery of Oct. 3. Since coming to this web site though, I
> have a much greater understanding of what's been causing all my problems
> and for this I thank all of you. I've been suffering from adhesions
> since I was 14 and 6 years ago i had a hysterectomy due to endo. I also
> had a laporatomy due to an abcess in my fallopian tube. But if I knew
> then what I know now, I wouldn't just sit there nodding my head like a
> good little patient when the Dr. said I need surgery. This is the last
> surgery I'm going to have, and I would skip it, if it wasn't so
> important to me to go back to my original plumbing. I just got out of
> the hospital yesterday, had me on huge amounts of demerol for 24 hours,
> it seems on top of everything else, I have shingles, in my eye. I guess
> I'll spend the rest of the day sitting around waiting for boils, locusts
> and frogs
> Thanks Everyone,
> Lynda Esparza
>