Beth22 wrote:
Hi meadow,
Thank you for the welcome. That's sounds like quite a journey.. are you happy now that it's permanent?Ā
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Hi Beth, and yes Iām definitely happy thatās itās permanent, no more messing about with the UC flaring up and all that s*** (literally š! š©). Itās been quite an adjustment to say the least, not only physically but mentally as well. Getting myself to a point mentally so that I can accept it and be happy took quite a long time. Iād known that I would eventually have to have the barbie butt surgery given that my pouchitis was chronic, so I knew that I needed to work on that aspect of my mental health. Coz the thing is, I really resented the first stoma due to my UC flare-up coming out of the blue, never had UC before, and it was a very severe one. My first stoma āthe volcanoā represented my whole life irreversibly changing, so itās no wonder I jumped at the the chance to have it reversed. But now, with this new stoma āMichaelā, short for āMichael Korsā itās a new chapter in my life. No more flaring up, and I donāt have to be as mindful about shielding, which I was doing during the lockdowns in the pandemic (because of the pouchitis I was immunosuppressed). And thatās just the TLDR!