So I haven't been on for ages and ages and ages!! Had a bit of bother with another blockage, ended up in the hospital for a week fasting and on the drip. Then they said I would need an op, I was ready for anything at that stage though because my stomach was bloated and the pain was unbearable. Anyhoo, the morning of the op came and they were fitting me with a brand new ileostomy on the other side of my belly, so the nurse arrived with the red permanent marker at hand!!!! As she was about to draw on my belly where to put the stoma, didn't my freakin' bag start going HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!! It was an actual miracle, the surgeon was in shock so the op was canceled and the nurse handed me the marker and told me to use it for bingo because there was definitely luck in it ha
So as I was really happy dodging the op, I started to think about the reversal and it was due to the fact it was 2 more ops that kept putting me off. But since I dodged an op anyway, I sort of started thinking maybe I could handle it. So I went up to Dublin to my hospital and asked them about it, 6 months later I was asked back for a biopsy of a part of my back passage that is left to see if it was Crohn's or UC. Turned out it was indeterminate UC, which means it's more risk to get the reversal. It's 10 percent no success in UC, but with IUC it's 25 percent, still good odds me thinks so I'm gonna go ahead with it, on a waiting list now for a bed so could be called at any time!!! NERVOUS AS FRIG THOUGH!!! Must start researching how people get on with it but then again the more you know the more nervous it makes ya I think!!!!! x

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