[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Oh Chris. I’m sorry. I’m so glad you’re coming out on the other side now, though.[/quote]
Aww, no reason to be sorry, luck of the draw that I’d get that.
[quote]EmilyQ wrote:
Oh Chris. I’m sorry. I’m so glad you’re coming out on the other side now, though.[/quote]
Thank you. Like I said, this whole ordeal hasn’t put me through a bunch of stress, or in my mind there was no other option so the stress just helped me to thrive through it.
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Damn, Chris. I can’t even imagine what you’ve been through.
I hope you have a speedy recovery.[/quote]
Mostly imagine that you had explosive diarrhea from Thanksgiving 2012 until March 13th, you go to the GI Doc for a colonoscopy (going into oblivion is so fun, plus the requirement that I had to pass gas (the requirement was given to me by two cute nurses)) and get some suppositories and you take a healthy poop the next day, and then the next day explosive diarrhea with increasing pain all the way up August when your GI doc finally gives you some Percocet. But, you still feel pain when you eliminate, then you take another colonoscopy and go to surgery. You have the stroke and your right arm feels like it fell asleep, you try to shake the feeling back into it, but you can’t even feel the weight of your arm because you can’t feel anything.
Then imagine those times you are telling someone something and you forget the word you want to say, but imagine that for every word you try to say.
Then imagine you have surgery and just regular post-op pain. For 10 months. The worse part is eliminating after my last surgery, right after surgery I have to eliminate around 10-15 times a day (I know how babies feel with monkey butt, Metamucil is my friend, so is Imodium). I have pushed it down to 8 times a day (just from will power to hold it), and will be happy happy happy when I get to around 4 times a day and when I can go to bed at 9:30 and sleep until 6:30 without having to run to the bathroom.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Will you be able to lift normally again?[/quote]
I can’t lift more than 10 pounds for another four weeks, because of hernias. But, I don’t see why not. I’ll talk to my surgeon again, but I don’t see any reason why I can’t.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Will you be able to lift normally again?[/quote]
I can’t lift more than 10 pounds for another four weeks, because of hernias. But, I don’t see why not. I’ll talk to my surgeon again, but I don’t see any reason why I can’t.[/quote]
Going to be a long steady growth. I doubt you will want to lift seriously heavy for at least a year sir.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Will you be able to lift normally again?[/quote]
I can’t lift more than 10 pounds for another four weeks, because of hernias. But, I don’t see why not. I’ll talk to my surgeon again, but I don’t see any reason why I can’t.[/quote]
Going to be a long steady growth. I doubt you will want to lift seriously heavy for at least a year sir. [/quote]
That’s what I figured. Which makes me sad, but I suppose I’ll just pick up a BB split.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]on edge wrote:
Damn Chris, what the heck happened?
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Yeah, I guess I haven’t been on here very much because of all that stuff. I have ulcerative colitis. Well, I did, now I am cured. But, this summer I bled out internally several times so bad that I had to go to the ER (because I passed out) and be admitted while they gave me units of blood.
Eventually, in September my GI Doc told me to go up to St. Louis and talk to the surgeon, most likely I would have a surgery. I had two strokes, killed part of my left brain and I had aphasia and my right arm from elbow to finger tips was completely weak/numb to any stimuli. I finally got the strength back and my arm can feel about 40% of what the other arm can, now.
November 13th, I had my first surgery (total colectomy: removed my entire colon) and I came away with a ten inch incision on the bottom of my stomach (kind of looks like the incision that c-sections have that goes horizontal on the bottom of the belly) and a ileostomy (stoma, basically eliminated in a bag attached to my stomach). Also had a jp tube hole on my left side and a two inch incision above my belly button.
March 6th, I had my second surgery where they started to reconstruct my small intestine to form a fake colon. Came away with another ten incision, jp tube hole, two inch incision above belly button and a new ileostomy (which each stoma had stitches around the abdominal wall and around the dermis on the underside (usually hidden)).
In June, I had my last surgery (I had one minor surgery in between). This one came with a five inch incision and a reduced ileostomy (no bag anymore). So, I’ll ask my doctor in a few days how many stitches I have had total but I am assuming around 1000 (two ten inch incisions and one five inch one, plus two jp tubes and two 2" incisions, plus the rectum closer after the first surgery, and finally the created a J-pouch on the second surgery where they cut about 16 inches of my small intestine in half, folded it in half and sowed it up and then cut my rectum in half and sowed the bottom of the J-pouch to my rectum).
The past year I have been in constant pain from either ulcers in my ass bleeding out or post-op recovery. But, thankfully the pain will finally subside in about three to six months after my ass gets used to going to the bathroom again.[/quote]
Ouch. And I thought I had it bad.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Will you be able to lift normally again?[/quote]
I can’t lift more than 10 pounds for another four weeks, because of hernias. But, I don’t see why not. I’ll talk to my surgeon again, but I don’t see any reason why I can’t.[/quote]
Going to be a long steady growth. I doubt you will want to lift seriously heavy for at least a year sir. [/quote]
That’s what I figured. Which makes me sad, but I suppose I’ll just pick up a BB split.[/quote]
Talked to the surgeon. I can start lifting as much as I want after 8 weeks post-op. Hurray!
Child Birth:
So easy a woman could do it.