After spending October 15th – 22nd in the hospital, I was being admitted again Monday October 27th. It took my body nearly five days to show me it wasn’t quite ready to be healthy again. It told me I needed IV steroids, not pill-form Prednisone in order to run properly. The hospital door is a revolving one. <cue […]
Read more "Hospitalization 2014 Pt. 2"Proctocolectomy (aka: Laparoscopic Total Proctocolectomy; J-Pouch Surgery). This topic had come up a couple of times in the past 8 years, but it was supposed to have been the very last angle of pursuit; the last action I would take to extinguish this terrible condition. That was the plan at least. The thought of permanently removing a functioning […]
Read more "A colectomy"As I mentioned in the prior post, the first half of 2014 was glorious. I felt years younger, was working out or doing some sort of physical activity 5-6 times a week, my sex life was in full swing and I was voluntarily taking on new responsibilites at work and school with an ease I […]
Read more "Hospitalization 2014 Pt. 1"While the first half of 2013 was a glorious one, the second half was inglorious. Beginning in July 2013 I began to feel toxic. The bleeding returned along with increased trips to the toilet and increased pain and cramping. This time, though, I did what my wife says is “a typical thing for a man […]
Read more "Hospitalization 2013"After the 2008 diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis, I went on Asacol. This worked for a number of years, however, minor flare-ups still occurred from time to time. If a flare was bad enough, the doctor would permanently increase my Asacol dosage. In hindsight, I see that this method was not an effective one, and I should’ve […]
Read more "A prolonged span of self-management"The Flexible Sigmoidoscopy can be a rather unpleasant event depending on your comfort level with a device entering a part of your body where things usually exit. Additionally, unlike a colonoscopy, you are awake for this procedure – no anesthesia. Here is a nifty, little explanation from the Mayo Clinic. The doctor who performed my first […]
Read more "Sigmoidoscopy and Diagnosis"I was 26 years old in 2006 when I first spotted blood in my stool. In an effort to minimize the impact such a discovery could have on one’s mental state, I – as any healthy guy would do – chalked it up to “a big cookie ruptured something a bit.” I told no one, and carried on. Such […]
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